Today is go time. !  (or as they say in German slang: Heute geht’s um die Wurst!  (today it’s down to the sausage !) 

We got out of the house around 8 and droce all day down to jfk. I. keeping with this winter’s theme.. it was snowing liek crazy until we fot out of Vermont ..  KInda cool that Nova came in to Vermont on a snow storm and is leavign this trip in a snowstorm !

we dreove straight throgh until abotu an hour and a half NW of the city and stopped at Sleeping Gant State Park.  it was a beutiful place to let nova get some fun ball chasing in..  It was a really beutiful place.. it was a sunny an windy..

Got to JFK at just about the time we waimed for.. 6-ish for a 9 PM flight. I drobed DIan and Nova at the terminal, while I drove to takwe  back the rental van.. I was told that cold take an hour.. but it wonly took 20 min.. Then We all went inside to check in.. Nava didnt knwo what to make of it.. whe was very nervous.. but shuch a good and calm girl. We had come to JFK and a booked a lufthansa flight becuse our normal airlien United no longer took dogs. .. Lufthansa is in the same alliance, and they have a great reputaiton for carrying pets…  Our only two chices were Newark or JFK.. and I’ll do anythig to miss Newark these days..

The good folks at lughtansa did not dissapoint !. We were met by a man named Mr Mutoo and his colleague Madalyne.. Between them thaty made sure we know everythign we needed to do help Nova have a good trip. We were told we could come back at the last minute, to shorten the amountt of time Nova had to be in her crate.. So .. we had alost 2 hours to hang out. first we went outside to the small doggie area and gave her soem dinner (ling with soem meds for nasea and anxiety). she ate well.. then we decided to walk around inside there was actually a lounge outside of security that took our Saphire card as membershi.. so the trhee of us got to go in there and chiol out..t hey hed us and got us drinks.. Nova got to hang out with us, which was so much fun. There was a woman with a cat who was flying to hing kong in there.. I was glad we had a realitvly shorter tri ahead

then it was time to get Nova loaded in.> Again My Muttoo and Madalyne wwere so helpful and calming. We took nova over to the special cargo place, and got her into her crate using some cheese as encourgment. She went right in.. .. she seemed to be ok with everythign. it was so weird to see her rollign away on the cart lookign back at us wondering hat was goign on !

I couldnt help noticing that TERMINALONE is also TERMIN ALONE .. I was pretty sad.. but knew however the trip went, she’d love to get back together with Gabe. 

We boarded about 8:30. and next thing I knew . we were landing in Frankfort..  !

More from Tomorrow !
nite all, nite sam

-me

Today was soooooooper busy at work. I had a bunch of things I had to get done before I left.. including soem stuff that had to travel to the UK this week. Pretty fun stuff that im excited to see work

After work, I headed to the airport to pick up a van we’ll be usign to derive to JFK.. we have nova, her crate and 4 big bags.. so we needed a van.

Leaving early tomoorw.   it’s gonna be an adventure !

nite all, nite sam
-me

We spent the entire day packing and getting ready to go. Tomorrow afternoon we pick up the car Tuesday morning early we drive down to New York.

its getting to be go time. ! 

nite all, nite sam
-me

 

Day 2 of the FRC event was just as exciting as yesterday.. I hung out for a while in the afternoon watching matches and helping with a small tour. The competition this year is particularly exciting because it involves throwing  a bunch of balls at the same time. there’s are balls flying all over the place .. it’s really exciting. It reminds me of a Phish concert when folks start throwing glow sticks ! (if you go to Phish shows.. you know what I mean) 


The event was really amazing overall.. . I also think we made another good impression on kids and coaches from nearby states. 
its pretty amazing how far VT has come in just a few years..

Oh… I also need to do a shout out to Ben & Jerry’s for donating ice cream. That was awesome again this year I hear (it was before I got there) 

I didnt take as many pictures today.. but I had just as much fun

I had to head home before the ending ceremonies. It felt really good. 

We spent the rest of the late afternoon packing for our upcoming trip to Germany. There’s an awful lot of prep because we’re taking nova with us. Who knew that taking a dog on a overseas flight was such a big deal anyway we were pretty beat by the end of the day so we decided to veg and watch TV show. We’ve been watching a show called “high potential” it’s a American remake of a French police show about a woman Morgan  who works with  with very high intelligence, who is also pretty much of a loose cannon . in a good way.. We uses her intelligence to solve crimes in very unconventional ways.we lilke it.. 
Anyway, today’s episode had the cops and Borgen fighting some bad guys. They burst in on them in a big building and we instantly recognized it as 516 anderson where the colony was filmed. It was so funny watching them run around and all the same places where we had slept in eight and played all those years ago. It really was  a hoot to see !

 

 

OK… That’s it for the week. We takeoff on Tuesday so we’ve got a lot to get done before then. We’re getting pretty excited

nite all. nite sam
-me