Off to the Rolex

We are in the truck traveling again, surprise surprise...  we are off to The Kentucky Horse Park for the Rolex 3-Day event.  First year going as spectators and really looking forward to it.  Here's some more pics from Kanab:

Went hiking up the mountain.

 Kim

MaryJean and Gracie kept walking on the edge!

Can you find the dog in this pic?

 MJ

And then it snowed the next day!  EEEKKK

Kim's workplace

 Kim made me go into this place...knowing I would bawl my eyes out, I went anyway. Sniffle sniffle

Some awesome memorials to loved ones.

I especially liked this one, sob sob...

They have tons of wind chimes hanging in here and it is quite a magical place.

Makes me love my furry kids even more knowing they are here only temporarily.  Sob Sob Sob

Kanab, UT

Me and my big sis Kim at her dream workplace, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.   This place is amazing, check out their website to see people really making a difference one animal at a time.

This is one of their surrenders, his name was Schwartz or Schlitz or something like that, what a cutie, he was born with this little foot on the front and is doing great now that he is at the sanctuary, he is like the holy ambassador of the lobby at the welcome center.  If you go there you might be honored to meet him in person, I was.
There were so many fantastic things about our visit to Kanab I hardly know where to begin so I will begin at the beginning.

This  is the first take your breath away piece of scenery I saw when nearing the place.  As I was to find out, "This ain't nothin'".  The scenery around Kanab is just breathtaking, canyon after canyon full of amazing red rock, underground lakes, huge fields of sagey sagebrush, a charming town where they shot hundreds of the old westerns Terry watches over and over again and of course my sister lives there, absolutely the icing on the cake.  Except for the unusual cold snap when we were there this place is perfect paradise.  Of course the very first thing we did when we arrived was to go directly to Kim's house and give her a big hug.  It was so good to see her that I felt like crying.

This is her house.  She rents some acreage, home to her and her 10 dogs.  She has 8 little ones and 2 big ones.  The one that stole my heart is Pixie, the ancient chiuawha (sp?), a hospice dog she has had over a year now.  Then there is Benny the long haired weiner dog who is the official greeter and in charge of everyone's social life.  He is the hostess with the mostess.  Then there is Cody who I nicknamed "the humper", guess why?  Of course his favorite target is little tiny frail old lady Pixie who doesn't mind his actions.  Then there is Tank, the Shitzu who is built like, guess what a tank and has absolutely no expression on his face ever, he never cracks a smile but likes Kim to lift his big self onto the couch at night.  I think I saw a glimmer of a grin that he has trained her to lift his big butt up every night.   The black and white speckled heeeler (her name escapes me right now) who just likes to cuddle, and all the others she has given a great home to.  I am bummed that I didn't take pictures of  them but when you are in their presence all you can think is wow, look at all these dogs!!  Every night when we would sit on the couch and watch movies each person gets a dog on their lap, a dog next to them, a dog on the other side and a couple of dogs on the back of the couch like head warmers.   The whole time Benny is running across all the laps making sure everyone has a person to sit on. It is dog heaven there.

Some cool petroglyphs at the animal sanctuary.  I loved the colors of the rocks.

We met Margaret Schreiber at the horse division of Best Friends and she took us on this amazing tour of the place.  This is the underground lake.  Best Friends owns 3000 acres of the canyon and leases like 30,000 more from BLM land.  This is not some small time place.

Underground lake right behind us.

 We went hiking but that will be another posting cause the pics are really cool.

This is at the sanctuary, a natural ampitheater with yes an underground lake under it.

Okay, so I have to get to bed, I am at the Midwest Horse Fair and we are tired since we work from 8am to 7pm here.  It is our dream weather though, 40 and raining with 80 mph wind, okay, not really but it seems like it.  MaryJean won't even go out in this weather, she says she can just hold it until it warms up a little.

Leather dinette and Jethro bowl

As I am writing this I am sitting at a trade show in Columbus, OH.  My brain is almost back to normal since Tucson but not really.  I am learning how to talk the talk again.  Since visiting my massage lady and chiropractor I am walking kind of straight again.  So...Where did I leave off?  Oh yea...Apache Junction. 
So our friends Tim and Karolyn made us a nice dinner that first night and we were in their gorgeous trailer eating dessert and Tim sits down on the leather dinette and sheepishly looks at me and says,"Now that I've sat down with my Jethro Bowl of dessert if you hear farting noises coming from my direction it's caused by the LEATHER SEAT.   How many times do you hear an announcement like that, I laughed so hard I almost spit my dessert out!  I laughed so hard I had tears pouring out of my eyes and I couldn't stop.  You know that kind of manic laughing you do in church when you are trying not to.  I woke up the next day and started laughing again.  For some reason all my life the subject of farting has made me giggle uncontrolably.  Not sure what is wrong with me.

Next stop is Kanab, Utah! Stay tuned