boy am i late in posting this one. i made it home about 3 a.m. tuesday morning following that show and i've been playing catchup since then. i met many good folks in penn., many from this list as well. i want to say thanks to al who made it so much fun for me! th road trip was a little hard on my fuzzies and now it looks like nicholii is the only one still recovering. lol, when all the others were sleeping, he was up trying to figure out how to get out of the travel cage(darn near did too). he's underweight but improving everyday. for the big news**kikomann got first in the longest tail** and got a box of treats to boot for it! well, it's the first time i ever thought a big tail would ever be benificial.. hehehe.... i got to meet the editors of modern ferret, and mary's new hair style/color is great! well, it's new to me since i've never seen her before. they are both real nice people and i got to even hold knuks. lol, knuks looks like my tinkerbelle only tinker is albino....so eric thought i had his ferret until my girl opened her eyes. uncanny how you find a ferret that's nearly exact as your own. i know what he was thinking because i saw a medium/light silver that looked exactly like my nicholii and my first thought was "who the heck is that and why did mom let him have nicholii and where is she???" lol, i enjoyed speaking to everyone i met, and i hope it was likewise to them(those who could get past my ghastly southern dialect<G!>). i usually like to get to know the people who are set up beside me and this show was no exception. i met a very nice couple who had a couple of sables, one very black sable which won them a 4th place(or 3rd place) ribbon. boy, she was just thrilled! instances like that make me glad to be there. before they left, they wrote their email addy down for me...but darnit, i'm still looking for it. if you're out there reading this, send it to me again as i'm sure the ferrets are hiding it from me. i loved the show and am looking forward to the columbus show in august. the penn show was the first my mom had ever experienced and now she's anticipating the columbus show as well. i quote, " i'm getting sooo excited. those shows are so much fun...i had a ball!" she and i are going to go over the handing over ferrets to the judge so as not to goof up. she wants to train one of the fuzzies a new trick but i don't think she will get that one done before the end of august. if my situation doesnt change by next year, we are hoping to go back to penn again next year and visit. thanks to all who made it possible for me to be there and to warm fuzzy: nice job folks :) sincerely-- malissa dillion and my fuzzy four [Posted in FML issue 2760]