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Wednesday, May 27
Finland 

Last Wednesday we said goodbye for the bunny in the Olympic Park and the next day we spent the whole day in a car traveling to the north coast of Germany. The ferry ride went as normal: we slept a lot! Until on Saturday we landed in Finland. Hurray!
 
On Sunday Cami and Ciara attended to a lure coursing competition and I enjoyed the sun shine at my real home by Mika's parents. Their priorities are in a right position: dogs first!
 
We opened the track training season in Helsinki on Tuesday in a sunny weather. First Ciara and a 1,5-year young male basenji Moko needed a group start in a good company like me and Lennu (3 year old male). Ciara's time manually taken and it was 24,02 seconds. Then we hurried by car back to Espoo and picked up our dearest brother Bobi with his masters. I had a enjoyable run with Bobi together. My time was 27 seconds - why to hurry, when you are having fun! Bobi will attend to his first veteran series track racing competition on Sunday, but I'll have my first veteran run on Wednesday, when I have turned six years on 2nd June 2009.
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Thursday, May 14
Rainy week 

This whole week has been raining, but that has not bothered me so much. Except on Monday, when I was tired after the weekends journey. By cartoon character Carfields words: "I hate Mondays!".
 
On Tuesday we had a pleasant visitor, because she brought us dog delicacy: wieners. We made a walk in the English Garden and luckily we met Tsula-basenji there as well. Even if it started raining, we showed our visitor our best tricks: climbing up to the tree. Only basenjis are as good as cats in climbing. The visitor took some photos of us.
 
On Wednesday we found a real bunny to hunt in the Olympic park. Unfortunately the grass was so high that the bunny got lost too easily. I was so excited the whole day!
 
On Thursday Mika came back from business journey and we greeted him as always very happily. There is only one problem with his journeys: he usually does not bring goodies for us dogs like Cami does.
 
Weekend plan: I have planned to send Ciara with Cami to Switzerland and spend some quality time with Mika. Hopefully the weather will improve a bit, so we could visit the Olympic park. I would like to check if the bunny is still there. 
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Sunday, May 10
Prague and Czech Track Racing 

This time the 380 km journey went smoothly, so I didn't have to argument it in the car. First time I got so high level service from the hotel staff, that I can recommend every dog citizen the Savoy Hotel in the Centrum of Prague. The staff brought me fresh water, wherever I stopped by: hotel room, bar and restaurant. In addition they had decorated the floor everywhere in the hotel with smooth wall-to-wall carpet, which I appreciated. They even played the piano during our dinner, so that the thunderstorm did not bother us outside. The only one, who got my warning, was one of the bartenders, who was so clumsy that my tail was in danger to be damaged under the dinner table. Fish meal tasted excellent!
 
Prague offered a lot of enjoyable moments for us dogs: a lot of parks and clean streets. We ate lunch in a restaurant by the Vltava River - the same one, where president Obama ate dinner last month. I was disappointed: no fresh water for us dogs brought by the staff! The lunch was a disappointment as well: I have tasted better chicken.
 
We drove 55 km north from Prague to the town called Mlada Boleslav, where track racing competition were organized. There were 6 basenjis attending to the competition: four native, me & Ciara. I got an excellent start in the qualifying heat, but ended last. The same thing happened in the finals. I wonder, if the other basenjis know, that they don't have to hurry so much, because the lure will stop anyway in the end and you have time enough to catch it in a moderate speed.
 
Ciara won the first round but lost the win to the Czech Racing Champion Fable in the finals. Fable is almost as old as I am, but much faster. Congratulations Fable and her owner Kristyna!
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Sunday, May 3
Traveling round Middle-Europe 

In the beginning of the week the journey started from Munich to Zurich, where we met Ruben (again). This time the weather was rainy, so I made everything to get people to understand that I did not want to spend time out of the bed. I behaved like a monster.
 
In Milan it was wet as well, but warmer than in Zurich. This time Cami understood my needs and we stayed in the bed until noon when Mika arrived and we traveled to Lake Garda. There we had a break with tasty pizza and sun shine, so I thought we would stay there. I was wrong: we continued the trip to the South-Tyrol vineyards, there we tasted plate of cold meat and cheese. My folks tasted some wine and bought some. We did not stay there neither so I continued the loud protest in the car!
 
Mika decided that it was time to climb up to the mountains, where a good quality wandering hotel waited for us. Mika's plan to get us to the top of the hill and let us run free did not work: dogs not allowed to run free signs everywhere and the lift to the top was closed! The Italians thought we would disturb the life of game animals. They are absolutely wrong: basenjis are the best running trainers for deer!
 
The next day my loud prays in the car were listened and we stopped in my favorite dog sport hotel in Oberammergau. I was too tired after the four hours shouting in the car to train agility. Luckily Ciara was in better condition, so Cami had more rounds with her than me. Then we had a family sauna where I would have liked to spend the rest of the evening.
 
Today we made a track racing training in Mammendorf on homeward bound. I showed that I'm not so old veteran runner as my folks think: I ran about 46 seconds the 480 meters track - only 4 seconds slower than Ciara. My condition has increased each week after the paw accident. Soon (actually in the beginning of June) I'm ready to enter the Finnish Track Racing competition in veteran series. Look out there this Veteran Lady!
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