RUN, FORREST, RUN...! - Our trip toTammsvik 2005
Text & photos: Heidi Ollila

Going to Tammsvik had been my plan for years, but something had always come between me and my plans. Summer 2005 was different. Our trip to Tammsvik would finally come true this year! This year Weera and I would go to Tammsvik - no matter what..! The boattrip from Helsinki to Stockholm went almost without problems. Almost! After getting ourselves to the ship I decided to get something to eat and left Weera to the cabin, since dogs aren´t allowed to come to restaurangs. When I finally came back to my cabin - there was a small shock waiting for me. The door of my cabin was open! I checked the cabin and yes, Weera wasn´t there. I had almost had a small heartattack after realizing that truth;) I started to look for my little one with a panic growing in my heart - and after a while something soft and reddish run into me. Yes, it was my Weera who had found meJ Just a little bit shocked both of us went back to the cabin and spend the rest of the boattrip in there sleeping like babies.

In the harbour of Stockholm Tanja Sadelheim was already waiting for us when the boat arrived. Tanja had promised to take us to Tammsvik from the harbour and me and Weera are still grateful for that! Schedule can be something that will mess everything - since Tanja had to pick up stuff to Tammsvik we had to stay in Stockholm centre for a while. Time went on faster than us...and I got a phonecall from the show, that pharaohhound judging has already started. Okay, now we are in a hurry I thought. Tanja drove like whirlwind towards Tammsvik and we kept our fingers crossed for getting into the ring in time.

When we finally arrived to the show me and Weera had to run in rain searching for the pharaohhound ring. That wasn´t really a pleasure, I can tell! We didn´t know where the ring was, so I run throught various of rings asking from people if anyone knew where ph ring was. Well, we did find our own ring and got in time to the ring also, which was a suprise after all this fuss;) The judging in saturdays official show went great to my mind, since Weera was BB-3 with a certificate. So she became a Swedish champion and in the most famous places of all, in Tammsvik!!

Sunday and Openshow for pharaohhounds

On Sunday there was Swedish pharaohhound clubs Speciality for pharaohhounds. The judge in this show was Nancy Sowerbutts from United States and the entry of pharaohhounds was magnificent - 14 males and 20 bitches altogether. It was really nice to see so many pharaohs in the ring and it was a pleasure to see beautiful dogs showing their best in the ring. Our time to be in the ring was in the champion class, so I had time to enjoy and watch others in the ring before that. I was really excited before the ring, since I knew there was the most beautiful bitches in our class competing with us. Well, you can win if you don't compete, I thought when entering to the ring with Weera. After all Weera was second in champion class and BB-2 in the finals for bitches, which was a huge success! I was really pleased with the result, since Weera got beaten only by the best - Faouziahs Bastet, beautiful Juno.

Run, Forrest, run….

After the success in best bitch competition I noticed that it was time get back home, since our boat back to Finland was leaving. So it was time to run, again;) We had to leave from the show and Weera couldn´t participate in best movements and best head &expression competition because of that. Our trip to the harbour was full of laughter and dangerous situations....there was a trafficaccident on the way to the harbour and because of that the police was guiding the traffic throught the accident place. When we arrived to the harbour the boat was still there and I run to the check-in in order to get my ticket to the boat. Unfortunatelly I was a bit too late and we couldn´t get to the boat anymore. So we had to change our ticket to the boat leaving next day and me and Weera got back to Tammsvik with tail tugged between our legs;) On sunday evening I had to take a few phonecalls to Finland, for instance to my boss to explain why I would not come to work Monday morning....! On Thuesday morning we got finally back to Finland safe and sound. Tired but happy travellers were back home a few experiences richer...