Millen's Mountain Dew
We've had the name
"Millen" planned for several years and were just waiting for the puppy
to come along. We've been fans of a race/rally/hill-climb driver named Rod
Millen for years, and one day Chris suggested that "Millen" would
make a good name for our future yellow lab. Once we got Millen, we had to
decide on an ostentatious name to use for the AKC registry. "Millen's
Mountain Dew" came to mind very quickly. Here's the story:
In July of 1999 we traveled to
Colorado Springs to watch Rod drive in the Pike's
Peak Hill Climb. Rod is the record holder in this race, and because of
this Pike's Peak has been dubbed, "Millen's Mountain." We signed
up for an all-inclusive day tour that included a ride up and down the mountain,
the spectator ticket, a t-shirt, and a pre-packed lunch. What was inluded
in the lunch? A 20oz bottle of Mountain Dew! Chris and I quickly
called our beverages "Millen's Mountain Dew!"
To tie this in even more to our
puppy, in her ancestry from the AKC, Millen's Grandmother on her father's side
is named "Horsecreek's Do The Dew".
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