Wow what a great weekend with friends and family we had! I admit we had a very slow to go start. I had planned on heading out from the house by 9 am at the latest and I had planned on taking 4 horses.
Well Marty wanted to go to town that morning and get some last minute things so that put us somewhat behind my planned schedule.
Well by the time we all got packed up, got Nathan out of bed (he had to work until 2 am Friday night/ Saturday morning so we let him sleep as long as possible), went down to load horses and just having Levi, Jake and Satin in the trailer was a lot of horses so I opted to leave the 4th horse home. It was Levi's first real trailer ride and she did well ... bumped her poor face a few times but came thru pretty unscathed overall :)
We go to Indianola and gas up the trucks and the boat and are ready to roll! We got to Elk Rock around 12:30 or so all had a enjoyable lunch. Then we got horses ready to go. Nathan called his Uncle to see when they were coming and they had some stuff to do and wouldn't be there until probably dinner time so we hit the trails. Courtney and Ty stayed at camp that first round and just played on Lu at the arena and around the campgrounds. Marty stayed at camp the first round as well and got the cards to pay for our sites.
Our first group consisted of Chase on Sis, Brandon on Belle, Danny on Star, Nathan on Satin, Josie on Jake and myself on Levi. Star and Danny were having a bit of a "discussion on weather Star really even wanted ridden.. I went over and gave him a hand .. once he was on she did much better... very fresh but soon settled in on the trails.
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| Me, Levi and Nate |
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| Me and Levi |
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Danny on Star
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Brandon on Belle
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| Chase and Sis |
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| Josie what a ham! |
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| Satin and Nate |
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| The group up ahead |
Levi did superb for her first ever trail ride, so good I was able to take lots of pics! ... the campgrounds made her a bit uneasy but she was a pretty good girl. All those kids playing and riding bikes, trikes and skateboards were a great learning tool for her as were the dogs that were out there. She stood at the hitching post like an old pro as well. Even when Chase and Ty would go running past playing around :-)
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| Dinner time. |
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| Josie on Jake and Marty on Satin |
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| Marty on Satin |
The second time we went out Nate stayed behind and Marty rode Satin.. I haven't gotten him on a horse in years but I think he likes my old girl! Maybe now I can get him to go more often. I think it was this ride we got to see several deer fairly close, of course when one spooked so did Brandon's horse. As Danny put it, it looked like he tried to bulldog the tree but the tree won. After we made sure he was OK we laughed our butts off, I did ask him if he would redo it so I could get some pictures or video!! LOL
After that ride we took the horses back to the campground and gave them a short break then Nate, Josie and I took Satin, Jake and Levi over to the little obsticle course and at first Levi didn't want to do it but after she watched Jake do it once she did good.. the back thru was a different thing for her but she figured it out. :-)
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| Looking good! |
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| Jake pole walking lol |
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| Nate being a goof |
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| Levi on the bridge |
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| Levi poles |
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| Levi crossing metal plate |
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| Backing thru the L |
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| Finishing the back thru L |
We had a good cookout of chicken, pork steak, dutch oven potatoes & onions, and Danny's superb dutch oven blackberry cobbler!! All that we had missing was the homemade ice cream.
Later that evening my BIL, SIL and niece showed up and we all sat around the campfire and enjoyed some good stories and beer.
The next day Danny, Courtney and Brandon cooked up a good breakfast of bacon, eggs and biscuits. Fuel for our morning ride :-) This time Marty and his brother Jasan went out on the boat and Suzie and Payton rode with us. I put Suzie on my good old girl Satin and we put Payton on with Josie. Payton was so excited because she was steering old Jake and Josie was just a passenger.
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| Suzie on Satin Payton and Josie on Jake..Levi's ears |
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| Suzie on Satin |
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| Go Payton! Look at her ride.....Levi and I behind |
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Nice big group
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3 comments:
I couldn't figure out what that plate thing was (not that Lucy cared). I wish I had an obstacle course like that at home.
Levi did great! I had a great time. Can't wait to do it again! Ty wants to sleep in the tent w/you guys next time. ;)
LOL.. It was definately fun!
Ty is more than welcome to sleep tent but I sat up all night in a chair wrapped in a sleeping bag ;), if he wants to sit up in a chair with me all night then he sure is welcome!
He might want to avoid Marty and tent though.. lots of snoring...and loudly! ROFL
Oh and I'm not sure what the metal plate was unless it was to simulate a metal bridge?????
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