Memorial Day aftermath…

.....SADDLE SORE!!

Every year we head over to the McLaughlin’s for a big Memorial Day cookout and baseball game. On Sunday Kurt and I went home with them and spent the night….a rather late night. After a early rise and breakfast, we headed up to the land where the cookout was going to be. I spent the whole morning riding horses with Charity and that was fun and interesting! Now, I’m not an experienced horse rider, so I was given Will to ride who is pretty lazy, except when another horse takes off then the race is on!! That was no problem, BUT my stirrups were too long so my feet kept slipping out making me feel like I was going to go flying off. And Will doesn’t like to run straight, but swerve all over the place. No matter if stumps, trees, fences or people were in the way, he headed straight for them. :-/ Whenever I wanted him to speed up when no other horse was, he absolutely refused! I tried the whip on him but found it very difficult to hold on to him, the whip and steer all at the same time. Guess I need more practice eh Jamin??? My legs definitely do! They felt like jell-o when I got off!
I spent the rest of the day playing volleyball, baseball, more volleyball and geeting totally drenched by the rain! I was going hard all day long and on very little sleep, which resulted in being pretty sore the next day. Oh well, it was worth it!