200th POST!!!!! Amazing Stampede Ride

Okay sorry, life's been crazy but this is my 200th post!!!! Thanks for my 5 trusty followers :)

So Saturday was a Base Team weekend. Stampede groomed and Saddled. I got Shoshone #127. I was super excited to ride him for team! He was fine for grooming no fuss. Then I helped groom Rock but he was just in one of his funks. Our ride went really well! We just warmed up with some drill work and transitioning into pairs and fours. I was in a 3 with Banjo and Dee, and on the rail :) So she said 1st four speed it up. So I picked up a faster lope. Come on! Push him Catch Up! OH!!!!! That's what we are doing. So I give Shoshone full reins and a little nudge with the spurs, off we went! Shoshone was going as fast as he could! I can't even describe it! We flew around the corners so fast! Dee fell off but Banjo stuck right with me! The wind was freezing and my nose was running but I was flying!!!! It was amazing! As we approached the group in just about 1 1/2 laps I slowed Shoshone down and didn't pop out of the saddle! It was amazing I never wanted to stop! My first really really true Gallop and Shoshone is one of the slower horses!!!! It was so fun! His lope is really nice but his working trot is awful!!! My instructors said I looked like a floppy fish and my knees are rubbed raw. So after catch up we moved down the center, did a thread, made fours, went a crossed the center and split at the rail. Then we were in pairs and came up and down the center and into our Propeller! We were riding bits of our drill again! I was so excited. I was 1 away from the outside. So we moved into diagonal pass through and we made it through! We didn't die!!! HAHAHAHA. Huge improvement from last ride and it boosted my confidence in my team immensely. So we did the propeller and pass through one more time. I had to call a halt ho because Dakota's reins snapped. We pulled him out and she called star! I was leading and turned left at the rail and brought my team to the center turned left and stopped. It was here I figured out the spot I was riding. Totally at random I ended up as 1-1. I just laughed. So we spun our star called out and halted. We were out of time so we dismounted. Overall it was an amazing ride. Besides being bouncy Shoshone did amazing. So I tied him on the rail and headed up to the fort. I wrote a few sequences to jog my memory and I did a few walk throughs with my teammates. Then it was test time. We got started right away. It was about 35 questions and we had to draw and complete diagonal pass through. I finished SUPER early. I turned in my two corrections and picked up my new ones. I only have 1! I was out of the classroom by 10:35. So then I watched a little trick and decided I wanted to stick around. I met a person at 11 and bought a real light box, water bucket, and polo wraps. I figured I should start stocking for Red Division if I can find stuff cheap. Both are purple :) I guess my assigned horse will be wearing purple even if its a boy hahaha! Now I just need two purple lead ropes and a purple flat halter. So Nighthorse looked a lot better this week, so did Crimson and Royal. Then I met some of my old teammates as they came out of diagramming and went home. Overall a great day :)