we all got to horse around this week!

So the past 2 days we have spent up at the Ramuda barn with the horseman directors Jason, Morgan, and Biz! They taught us all the basic skills of grooming, tacking, mounting a horse and mucking out the stalls. Along with all the easy stuff, we learned how to perfect our riding skills too=) We played a few games with the horses including: musical hankies (aka musical chairs on horseback), pole bending, and a few relay races. In addition we learned about "cutting" (basically herding a cow away from the other cows....Morgan doubled as the cow!). On Wednesday, we went on an 1 1/2 hour beautiful trail ride in the woods with the snow still covering the ground as a blanket. It was such a great time up at the barn these past few days, except that it was freezing up there.... nothing a little hot choc/coffee couldn't take care of! To end our time up at the barn, we got assigned to prepare/teach a horse lesson next month. Mine will be a ground lesson which will be on the parts of a horse! Guess I'll have to get creative with that=)