BRRRRR - The "Graceful" Day

Yesterday was great! I came early to watch a bunch of my friends and old teammates ride in glory then I checked in for diagramming. We got our scores for Quiz 1 - 100% I was so happy! Then we headed out in the icy cold for a walk through. I was 2-5. So I peeled off for a maneuver and hit a patch of icy slush tried to save myself and ended up face planting and drenching myself from head to toe. It was super embarrassing but the whole team was laughing with me so it wasn't soooo bad. Now I was super cold though. We then switched to our second line up. I was expecting not point but I got put at 2-7! I was so happy to ride team for both drills! The positions are basically the same just opposite sides of the arena. We went back up and took sequence and Quiz 2. I have passed 3 sequences so I am done! Yay!! Then we finished diagramming Flag for 16 more diagrams plus corrections. I went to sign out my horse and I had Stretch! I was pretty happy to have stretchers back :) he was hyped up yesterday though!!! I turned his pad around backwards and it stopped the whole slipping problem! I was so happy. He wouldn't stand still for me to mount or at all for that matter. He does well once he has a job. When you start loping he gets soooo excited about loping that he forgets everything else. Our first drill actually went okay! We did it at a slow lope trot sort of. Stretch almost crashed into the points because he couldn't turn his big body in time. Then the second drill was a disaster. We couldn't keep our box for the star so all of them collapsed and it was just everywhere and out of control. For our first time though I guess it wasn't horrible. Stretch loved it. I actually got him to stop on a halt ho once!!!! Improvements!!!! Then I rode OD for JI at 1 and raced to our NHR pizza party at 2. Watched Colorado Stampede ride at 4 and headed home at about 5:30. It was sooooo cold by the end of the day.