Celebrating with WINE!!!!

We attended an agility trial in Rochester over the weekend, home of Mayo Clinic and the world's largest vertical corn cob, complete with lights.

It's a nice outside agility site, with a nice little camp area close at hand. One downside - no showers.....on the upside there is a Super 8 just over the fence of the Campgrounds. Luckily, some of our "high class" friends stay at the hotel and allow us to use their showers.
I think this is probably more for their benefit, than for ours.

Kruz, our 10 year old Border Collie finished his MACH2.
Good boy KRUZ!!!!
Kruz is totally in it for the fun and doesn't even understand with a MACH or DQ (Double Q) mean....although, he TOTALLY understands that the RED DQ sign means BABY CONE!!!

Here's Kruz on Monday 9/1/08 photo by Marsha - see her other AWESOME pictures at:
http://www.agilityig.smugmug.com

So, back to our Celebration on Sunday. The upscale crowded decided to order pizza in their air conditioned rooms, leaving us poor white trash folks to grill out. (I might add, we had tents, our neighbors ALL had big arse RV's - we spent less on gas!!!) Carrie surprised me with a bottle of my favorite wine served in white Styrofoam cups. We're talking HIGH CLASS!!!

For those of you interested in what the "other half" drinks, this was a light refreshing dessert wine Moscato D'asti - 2005, a very good year! Too bad this one actually had a cork vs. those normal screw off caps we're use to.

Uh oh!!! Note here - we didn't even think about asking those RV people if they had a wine screwie opener thingie! UGH!!!

Carrie recalled her father saying in the Army that they would use a knife and simply push the cork down into the bottle. Oh, nice thought Carrie, but the bottle is actually tapered in the middle. Maybe we can dig it out, she says?? Hum, with a plastic knife?? I don't think so. (':




Luckily, Marsha (AKA Meme) comes to the rescue! She remembered that we were given a Swiss army knife at the 2002 AKC Nationals in Houston, TX and she has it with her!!

Now I'm really jealous, I have one of these too....somewhere!!!

Yes, you can check on the web site listed on this handy item as well!!!!

Carrie carefully twists the screw into the cork. We're all holding our white Styrofoam cups in anticipation of the sweet wine!

Well, as they say, the best laid plans........let's just say, it wasn't as easy as we thought. Or at least as easy as Carrie thought!
Marsha, Michelle, Bill and I, on the other hand had a BLAST!!!
At Carrie's expense of course.



Carrie got a good grip on the knife and she pulled!! We cheered louder, she pulled harder....

and harder.....



and harder......



We laughed......she grunted.......



We laughed MORE!!!!



Then came the breathing!!


Now trust me, NONE of us at this table have had ANY experience birthing them two legged babies, but we're all sure Carrie would have made any Lamaze instructor proud with her breathing methods.

Unfortunately, that strategy didn't prove successful for getting the cork out of the bottle. It did however make us all laugh all the harder.


By the way, I'm sure glad she shaved her arm pits!! No Photo Shop was used in the telling of this story!


Finally it comes down to BRUTE STRENGTH!!!


By this time, the natives (that was us) were getting restless. We wanted our wine and we wanted it NOW!!!! Some of us had squeezed our foam cups in all the excitement and we knew they wouldn't be able to handle much more.


PULL CARRIE, PULL CARRIE, YOU CAN DO IT!!!
The chants came from the picnic table!! People from the balcony were now coming outside to see what all the yelling was about.


SHOW THAT BOTTLE WHO'S BOSS!!
Someone else yells with anticipation!

And then.....it HAPPENS!!!!!


With one final tug, the cork comes out of the bottle with a satisfying pop, that all high class wines provide.


Cheers were heard throughout the camp!!! YIPPEE!!!! WAY TO GO!! THAT WAS AWESOME!! WAY TO GIVE IT HELL!!


Of course we don't give her time to recover as we're all grabbing for the bottle and filling our cups. It was delicious!!!

THANKS CARRIE!!!!!