The NOI - I mean, the NOC

The National Obedience Invitational is now called the National Obedience Championship.  Even tho it's still an invitational.  Shrug.  Anyway, we drove out to Tulsa this year so Proxy could compete in her first NOI/NOC.  Since it's still winter for most of that trip, there wasn't much for flowers to take pictures of, but I was really excited to get this one, a Desert Lily, near Kingman, AZ.

Proxy did pretty well - we had one NQ on an article because I wasn't really taking any of this seriously and used a set she isn't really used to using.  Despite that, she ended up 20th overall, which is more or less our best finish - Diver was 22nd one year, but under the old format.

The view from our crate set up.

The stays.  Proxy is the third dog from the bottom on the left.

The drive out and back was long but went fine.  On the way home the girls got a chance to run amok and, um, share a toy...