Hi Everybody, We are home now from our trip to Italy and Germany and New Jersey. We got home last Tuesday evening from Germany. We had a good time in Italy. The performance of Aida in the coliseum was really spectacular. They didn't bring an elephant on stage but they did have 4 white horses! My meeting with Henke went well and the sieger show was good though in the rush of everything I had to do to get out of here I forgot to put in the binoculars. The show is held in a large stadium so seeing the numbers on the dogs was somewhat difficult. However, it all went well, weather was great if a little warm, and it only rained the day we drove from Verona to Nurnberg and again from Nurnberg to Munich to catch our flight. We arrived home to rain worse than what we had with Hurricane Irene! Then Saturday we drove to Maryland for a reunion of Bob's family. Dropped the dogs at the kennel again (they weren't too thrilled to go back so soon). After the reunion we drove to Jersey City, NJ for the 9/11 SAR Working Dog Ceremony and got home around 10 PM last night. I felt very privileged and honored to be representing the GSDCA at this event. It was a very moving tribute to working dogs. I'm going to write it up for the Review. I haven't had time yet today to download all the pictures Bob took but hopefully he got some good ones. The bronze sculpture - Semper Fi - is more impressive in reality than it is in the pictures although the pictures are pretty good too (check the web site). We need to find this sculpture a home in the east where he belongs (the artist lives in Colorado and that is why it has been in Colorado). The return home is temporary because we will leave for the National in less than 2 weeks. I feel like I could use a little more time to get ready for that but ............... Anyway, looking forward to seeing lots of you there! Tish Permission to crosspost ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================