| 2003 ARBA National Convention Wichita, KA |
| This is a picture of our drive heading into Wichita. The vast plains of nothingness were beautiful to us. My friend Cindy was snapping some photos out the window as I was driving. |
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| This is convention hall, taken from the window in our hotel room across the street. |
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| Lobby inside the Raddisson hotel. We don't splurge like this often...only for "special" occasions!! We felt like the Beverly Hillbillies!! |
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| Check out the room!!! Even though we had a HUGE, honkin bed, Cindy and I slept on opposite edges, clutching the edges of the mattress for fear of "touching" each other in our sleep. |
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| What does 20,000 rabbits look like all in one place? Looks like THIS! Well, this is only the open rabbits. I didn't get a picture of the youth rabbits. |
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| If you weren't fortunate to attend the 2003 convention, I kid you NOT, this was taped to the inside door of the ladies restroom stall. Now, I needed directions to get to Wichita, I needed directions to check in my rabbits, I needed directions to my hotel and to my room, but I did NOT think I needed directions for this!! Do people in Kansas not know how to do this???? What else would you do with it, put it in your purse? Well, I just HAD to get a picture of this. Now, imagine the looks on the faces of the ladies after I walked out of the stall and they heard me in there taking pictures!! One of them, bless her heart, even had the nerve to ask me what on earth was I taking a picture of in there. I almost died laughing!!! |
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| Fuzzy Lop Booth |
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| Tom and Muriel Keyes manning the booth. |
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| Fuzzy convention awards. Luggage painted by yours truly! |
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| One of three rows of fuzzy lops. This gets quite crowded in the morning when it's feeding time and cleaning time. This is a good time to mention to people to please remember to close your cage door after you take your rabbit out. Ever have a cage door catch you in the face, eye, or back of the head when you raise up? OUCH!! |
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| If you had wooled breeds, this is where you came to do your grooming. It was an outside area with overhang, Check out the security measures ARBA installed so no bunnies left the premises! ;) |
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| I think one of everyone's favorite pastimes at convention is being able to get together with friends, both old and new, from near and far. Some of these people we only get to see once or twice a year if we are lucky. We all share the same passion for this breed. Fuzzy friends are the BEST friends!!!! |
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