A birthday saturday
Riding today and Ruby excited about going to the stables – it has been a few weeks since she has been, the schedule at the riding school has changed now the kids are all on summer holidays. The weather has been pretty dreadful for the last couple of weeks - the odd sunny afternoon but really nothing to write home about. It is frustrating as there is so much to do in the garden but every evening over the past week the skies have opened and prevented me from getting out there - oh well it will just turn into a wildlife park and all the insects will be happy!
We collected Kaleshia (Miss Piggy's granddaughter) for her birthday surprise - a horse riding lesson and headed off to the stables, I had attempted to make a horses head birthday cake this morning with interesting results - it was still chocolaty and sticky and I am sure it would go down well. The riding stables were really busy - lots of new people and several lessons going on at the same time - very different to our relaxed Saturday morning lessons. The teacher was also different - not a patch on our normal teacher... she called the kids to their ponies and then off we headed - once inside the arena she told the parents to let go of the ponies and the kids would be doing it for themselves - Ruby was not happy about this and unfortunately she was on a very vocal little pony, the result Ruby in tears and not having a very good time. Ben went in and was allowed to stay with her, she picked up after this and after a couple of laps of the manage we all went off on a walk round the fields.
We stood and watched the kids play in the rain after the ponies had been de-tacked - the freedom and complete joy of running and jumping in the poring rain bought a smile to my face. Some days it just feels great to get wet - I remember as a child if I was out riding and got caught out by the weather sometimes it just sent electricity through my body, arriving home with raindrops dripping off my nose, getting out of my wet clothes and into soft dry clothes was a simple pleasure.
The birthday girl had a great day and we returned back to the house to finish the celebrations in our tent, the girls dressing in party dresses and shoes for the event.