This past weekend, I made an impulse decision to travel with Kirsten to her sister's house in Hanford, CA. Her sister married into a family that raises Dutch Warmblood Horses trained in Dressage (I think I am getting all of these facts right!) Anyhow, it was a fantastic weekend gettaway on the farm. I made me realize that I would love living on a farm if I had my family surrounding me like that. Oh, and I forgot to mention that it is Dutch country up there, so I fit right in!
Top ten things about this past weekend (in no particular order):
1. Getting to know more of Kirsten's family. Her parents had come down for the weekend, so it was fun to see them. I didn't really know Jessica that well and I had never met Eddie (her husband) before. Plus, everyone was so hospitable, I felt like family! It was great!
2. The amazing food for EVERY meal! The first night everyone at the horse show was fed bacon wrapped filet mignon and delicious potatoes. For breakfast we had bacon, ham and onion scramble with milk from the dairy. Also, on saturday Eddie was in charge of making Carne Asada for over 300 people. We used EVERY knife making home-made Salsa... SO YUMMY!
3. The fact that there were very few distractions for doing my homework.
4. Metting people who know other people with my same last name!
5. Dancing the night away to some good old country music! (It reminded me of "Country Boys and Girls getting down on the farm!")
6. Seeing the cows go through the rollar coaster of getting milked. (It was like they were waiting in line for a ride!)
7. Felling the baby inside of Jessica move and hiccup!
8. Seeing the horses up close... they are AMAZING! And seeing the fox hounds and the friesian horses (Budwieser horses).
9. Watching the whole family associated with the horse show chip in to make things go so smoothly
10. Learning that horses can dance better than I can! (see below)
In the above video, notice the horse "grapevining" his feet! Towards the end, he switches his lead foot with every pair of steps... amazing! Below is a horse with more rhythm than I have!
4 comments:
You've got that right Dutchie!
Looks like a lot of fun! I wanna go next year! Did you come back with any pooping horses? :o)
I don't know what they were all doing... but all of those hound dogs behind the horse looks like something fun!!
I like your hair in the pic of you at the restaurant.
Thanks Jaymo! That is how my hair looks every day now! I had to do a lot of work for it to stay back in my soccer game today! :-)
Brett,
This was the final year for the horse show! We'll all have to take a trip up to visit Kirsten's sister though, b/c there are lots of other fun things to do!
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