I know I'm a bit late getting this posted but better late than never??

We headed to Scottsdale on Oct 14 to Westworld for the Region 5 Championships. Our goal was to equal our best score on our Training Level test 3. We were scheduled to show Friday for the championship class, and then Saturday and Sunday were just ADA rated show classes. Most of the judges I showed under were from Canada.

Stacy and I had camp spots next to each other with water and electric plug-ins for my air conditioner. The facility had great showers with on-demand hot water but no changing area within the shower so you had to change in the shower stall without getting your clothes wet - doable but glad I'm pretty limber. I had my George Forman grill, my small refrig and plenty of chicken for dinners. I'm glad I brought my bike to get back and forth from the stalls to the trailer.

The hottest day was to be Friday and then was to cool way down and even rain some. This was unfortunate for our Friday ride. When we arrived Wednesday afternoon, we unloaded, and got the tack stall all situated. Then took a long stroll around the grounds with Stacy and Frisco. Caz was an angle!! I really love his demeanor. Nothing bothered him all weekend, which was great! We got our trailers set-up in the dark, which was interesting. The spaces were REALLY thin - my rig was a tight fit. But it was nice - had my awing up, chairs out and my carpet down. Nice place to hang after the day was over.

Thursday we hand walked several times and then rode in the warm-up arenas and walked in the show arena - one was closed so we had to skip that one. Stacy's sound check was later that afternoon in the indoor, air conditioned arena. We hand walked the horses in there for that. They were checking all the freestyle music and one piece came on and Caz did not like it at all! He got antsy and irritated. Amazing how that affected him. When Frisco's music came on, Frisco perked right up.