Good Day and Bad Day

So Saturday was a Base Team weekend so I had to groom at 7 with Colorado Stampede. I got Shoshone #126. I wasn't exactly thrilled. He likes to pull against the bit and his trot can be pretty rough. Plus we were in the White Arena... again. I got finished early. We had to ride warm ups standing in our stirrups. It was really painful. We rode with flags and I got a white flag. We actually got to do the drill this week! I rode 3-3 which was a really blah spot. We had like 4 halt ho's and people turn the wrong way a lot. We eventually made it through and lined up again. I got to ride 3-1 this time... much better :) I was one away from the outside of propeller so I got to lope a little which was a lot of fun. We did diagonal pass through like 3 times to get people to understand that the rail has to move faster! Eventually she said only one way to learn... do it at a lope. I was leading and Shoshone tried to kill us all because he hates going head on. It was fun doing a maneuver at a lope for once. Very scary though and it showed us how fast that transition happens. We put flags away and rode up to the water tanks. Then I watched White Star :) I also went to the office to sign up for the Junior Instructor class. They changed it so much this year and we had to fill out an application and you have to try out this year. Then Stampede met in the fort and did an activity where we had to do calf stretches in a line holding each other up. It was really hard. Then we did two walk throughs. I was 4-4 for the first one and 3-5 for the second one. They were okay spots we were just randomly placed. Then we went behind the seminar room for a team builder. We all had to say three things that made us unique and share them along with our greatest weakness and why we joined westernaires. It was really cool learning about my teammates and that we all want to become a closer team and start working together. Hopefully it shows next ride. That was my day!