First, I got to go groom the horses. I groomed almost all of the horses, except Ruby and Tucker. The first one was Lilly, but then we had to go to this horse that was white and it had big brown spots all over it and we got to groom that one. I wanted to groom Midnight, he was black, he belonged to one of my friends at horseback riding, he is just a pony. We couldn't groom Midnight, because he was too little. We get 3 different kind of brushes, one is for the face, which is really really soft, then one is hard and rough to comb its tail and mane, and the last one is this little one that's a circle with little tiny points that we slip on our hand and we do circles around with our hand, then we brush it down with the hard brush. That makes the horses hair soft and pretty.
After we groomed the horses we went over to the practice barrel, it's just a big barrel with holes in it, so it looks like a horse. Everyone loved my helmet, so I took it off and put it on the barrel and said "Look, it's a Unicorn!" Then we all did tricks on the practice barrel, then we did tricks on the horses! I did tricks on Suds and Magic. Suds is a really big, white horse with teeny tiny brown spots all over him. Magic is a pretty, small brown horse. The tricks that I did were hold the reins, then let go and put my hands in the air, then I hold the reins and put my legs straight out behind me, and lift them up, then swing them off the horse and land on the ground. Then, I get back on the horse, I hold the reins and put my knees on the saddle and I lift myself up and put my hands in the air, while the horse is trotting! Then I jump back down into the saddle and do a scissor kick dismount! There were some kids that stood up on the horse, and I wanted to try that, but I couldn't do that yet.
After riding the horses, we went for snack and after snack we went back out and we rode the horses some more and they were trotting and I was really bouncing! It was fun and I kept laughing!
Then we went home!
I'm so excited to go back again tomorrow!
Love,
Emily
