Specialty Picture Day!!!!!!!

Wow yesterday was a crazy hectic and chaotic day. So I arrived around 7:45 and had to park in the lower lot :( Then I hiked up to the costume truck for Vaulting check in. Those who didn't have a nude leotard underneath to change went into the tack truck. I had mine on so I just took off my uniform and had my costume underneath. Mine is purple and my partner is bright green. We lined up shortest to tallest. We have A LOT of bright blue and bright green this year and they are mostly the shorter people. It was really funny. So we took our picture with people doing split, posing on the rail, saluting, hands on our hips. It was a very colorful gymnastic like photo :) I had about an hour before Rope pictures so I watched Varsity ride and then met my team outside the white. It sucked because they scheduled our practice right during pictures so we weren't practicing today. Our pictures went really well and I was on the bottom row for the first time ever!!!! We just stood normally and had our ropes in our hands. I had to change for batons fairly quickly after that. They made the bottom and top of my leotard way to big. But since we wear shorts over I'm just having them adjust the top. I love the baton costumes. FIRE SKIRTS!!!! Lol. We also have a red headband and wrist bands. I volunteered to do a pose on the ground. Our picture went pretty quick. I was really bummed that I had to miss Liberty for a 3rd week in a row for pictures :( I haven't gone since move ups. Oh well... Then I watched nighthorse at 12. They are starting to look really good!!!!! At 1 was batons practice out by the white and we got to play with FIRE BATONS!!!! It was really fun but scary at the same time. I watched Royal's ride and then headed up to the Western for Vaulting. It started pouring rain but it died within like 5 minutes. My partner and I checked in at 3:45 and got Money #106 for the ride. I was really nervous cause of how he acts in Liberty but he did amazing!!!! Just doesn't like to stand still at all lol. I rode base for warm ups and rode trick for the two drills though. We really worked on polishing the timing and spacing also trick position. For our first time being in a big arena doing tricks at a trot I was very proud of myself. I'm really sore today though. Money didn't have a smooth trot but it wasn't bouncy. His spine made it really hard to balance in one leg lay over and when we reverse to sit backwards. :) We get to wear shorts, tights, and t-shirts to practice now to get used to the feel of our costume before show. We had to unsaddle. I had Money and my partner had Curtis. Of course money had to eat and took forever. I didn't get to leave until 6:15. I can't wait until next week when I get to have Stampede pictures :)