Yesterday

Yesterday Grace, Cerise and I rode over to the neighbor's party. We gave the little kids a few pony rides. Then we headed up the mountain trail to my friends' house.

At one point when we were about to scramble up a very steep portion of the trail we found that someone had blocked it with ropes. So, we did a little bush whacking. I headed grace for what looked like the only way to get through the brush and trees, and dropped Cerise's lead line. There was no way to get up the hill with Cerise in tow. I dropped my head so the branches would smack my helmet instead of my face and urged Grace on. She seemed excited to crash through the trees and scramble up the hill. Cerise took her time working her way through the branches. Grace and I walked to the trail where we waited for Cerise. When Cerise caught up to us I reached down, grabbed her lead and we continued on to our friends' house.

We were surprised to see not just my friends, but three teenage girls who rode with us a couple of years ago. The girls had a high school science project to document. They were investigating the physics related to the motion of trotting, cantering and jumping. Sounded interesting to me. So they shot video of me jumping Cerise over a log. Then they shot video of one of the girls trotting and cantering cerise in the round pen. I hope they will share their report with me.

After all this excitement we were all ready to go home, get some water and relax.