DOG HOUSE

JB Braun is a BMW ORACLE Racing colleague from Marblehead, Mass., just outside Boston. We first met in 1979 when he was a member of the US World Youth Sailing Championship squad for which I was the team leader. The event was raced off Livorno, ITA; coincidentally, Chris Dickson won it.

This summer JB, his wife Kelly and kids moved to Valencia for the duration of the 32nd Cup. They have taken a house here in la urbanización not far from us. Their kids are at the American School, which has a four-day Thanksgiving holiday same as in the States. So they have taken off for a few days, and we have their dog, Amber, as our guest through Sunday. Not sure our two cats, Amber (yes, two Ambers in the house) and Bailey, are as pleased about this arrangement as are Leslie and, especially, Meg.



Amber the Dog, with some help from the camera flash, doing her best
imitation of Little Orphan Annie's dog -- this afternoon, with Meg
just back from school. BTW, Meg got her first mid-term test (Geography)
back and graded today -- an A+.