Things move a bit slow around here..........

Spent all of 3 hours waiting and line and then finally having the vet check on the team on Monday.  They sent 2 people to each team and had to scan the chips on each dog and do a pretty comprehensive physical also. 

Tuesday morning they woke us at 5:30am to move the truck/trailer to our parking spot near the start line.  They had put some snow down in the lot because it was all ice but it didn't really help with the "slipperyness". 
Randy's start time was 3:42 and we got off to a bit of rocky start cause I forgot one of the dogs in the trailer (Andy) so it messed up our starting line-up of the team places.  He did look good leaving!!!!  Most of the teams had come in and I heard the race marshal get a call that Randy was still out on the trail (though he should have been back 1/2 hour ago) and heading back with a snowmobile escort.  Another of those "dogsledding widow" days.........  It was almost dark when he got back and many friends (Bellerives, Danae Bryar and Mike Marsch, and more) stayed to help us get them back to the truck.  Bad day.  Missed several corners and got dragged twice.  Turning a 15 dog team around when you miss a corner is quite a challenge.  Decided to go to Bellerives today and train tomorrow and see if any dogs are hurt and then may race in Quebec at Epiphanie on the weekend.  We heard several other open drivers may also not run today because of the trail.

Treated ourselves to a breakfast buffet in the restaurant.  It is a lovely place and I will describe more later.  Need to go drop the dogs and get on the road again..............