Horses!

     So one of the things that I have been doing while I have been here has been taking part in the Riding Club! I really love it! Its just a little expensive, but what with horses it always is. Ok, this lovely blonde woman is the club head, Paula. She is miraculous at organizing everyone together and getting us from one outside of Butchart to Hayfield riding school every week. She also corrals us cats to and from, runs the riding team, and makes sure that we can all get home and that when someone leaves something somewhere that it ends up back with the right person. Plus she is also a student! My what a busy lady! And Nice!

     I am in the beginner class with a lovely person named Jonathan who is quite fun and funny! Today it was just the two of us riding in that class and we had a really great time. We rode Wesley and Flynn today and focused mostly on trotting and team riding with the horses. Trotting is really fun but trying to get it down so that you can rise and squeeze the horse to keep them going at the same time is surprisingly hard. You really have to think about six things all at the same time. Its hard but really fun! I like riding Flynn because he is really responsive to direction and he is really pretty too. Ok, the last two pictures are from the lesson: Me on Flynn and Jonathan and I doing pairs riding in a circle! 

Jonathan and I doing pair riding!

Here I am on Flynn, he's handsome!

Oops, got a bruise!