Colorado Stampede Steppes Style!

Yesterday was really fun! So I decided to ride the rail for risk of lengthening my recovery time. I helped my teammates groom and carried bridles and blankets. So my awesome instructors let me stand in the center with them during the ride because we were doing something special today. It's really scary actually. I have a whole new respect for the instructors. But anyway they warmed up the horses then changed into tennis shoes. Owner horses and specific rental horses were brought to one end. Then we lined up the remaining horses facing GE in the Red Arena. My instructors told me to watch first and then see if I wanted to try. So half the team was on the ground the other half on horses. Then we had to get our teammates up and help them across the butts to make a pyramid. It was basically a team builder. It was really fun and you could feel the team drawing together. So I decided to try base next time. I hoped on Shorty and moved to the end of the line. I got to help people up. It was awesome. Everyone was laughing and having a really good time. Then we had to try and move the line forward. It was really hard... whole new respect for steppes riders. Then I got to lead shorty out. So I still got some horse time :) After I picked up my embroidered carhartt. I'm so happy with how it turned out. I watched Varsity ride and it was the last practice before stock show so the Senior's horses were decorated and they wore crazy costumes. It was fun to watch but it really made me realize that day is coming up very fast for me and I don't want it to happen. Then I had diagramming we turned in our diagrams and I looked through my corrections while my teammates took sequence. I scored ten 4's, six 3's, and two 2's. So I have 8 corrections because I am working toward all 4's. They are all pretty easy fixes. Then we broke into groups that our instructors assigned. One person with really high diagrams and two with lower scores. I was the high score in my group. We basically went over certain charts and helped the others with corrections and questions they had. It was really useful I think. Then we were done. I went home right as it was starting to snow. It was really slippery outside. That was my Saturday!