Finally I Get My Act Together

Well, I think someone can award me the worst blogger ever trophy, I'm sure I have won by miles. So sorry to keep you waiting, time slips away when you have something like this to do. But here I am to make amends. Today I was assigned my beautiful Mia and Charlotte got Larissa for the Thursday five o' clock lesson.. Geoff had to go to Paris unexpectedly (poor him XD), so Laura instructed this lesson. Louisa rode today, along with Melonie and an English lady. We just did the course we have been usually doing the past couple of weeks (vertical, turn to the left, do the double of three strides, turn to the left again, to the oxer on the diagonal, turn to the right, do the double of three strides (get all that?)) except without jumps. Then surprisingly she put up two tiny jumps both of them on the last fence of each double. They couldn't have been more then 10 inches (25-30cm). So puny on Mia! XD. Then Louisa got the notion to ride everything without stirrups, so she did that. Laura said anyone who wants to try as well could. Guess what, I said I'd try. I have never jumped without stirrups before so this was going to be interesting. No, I did not fall stop you oh no this wont go well, giggle, gigglers. It went really well, Mia was a darling and I was thinking it would be a lot harder. I am REALLY gonna pay for it tomorrow though because my thigh muscles were clamped the whole time. I ended up doing the jumps twice and had a lot of fun. Charlotte did really well but did not try without stirrups because the canter did not feel right. Melodie did it and did really well. It certainly helped to slow down Lizzie, she races through even though she's 16. I guess that's all for now. The car broke down of course so I don't know if I will be riding Saturday. Next week is French holidays so we are going over Wednesday, Thursday and possibly Saturday for the entire day. We come home around 5:30ish so I might not have time or energy to write those days. I will try to blog key moments. I will search around or take some pics of Mia so i can post them over on here so you can see my gorgeous girl!