Calling Flag!!!!!

Wow. Yesterday was absolute insanity! I actually made it to all my classes which was huge! I had training and we took our Final for Flag, received a homework assignment, the Kaleidoscope sequence, and did our walk throughs. I was 1-1 for the first drill and CP for the second one. I GOT TO CALL! I was so excited. I really want to go to Royal and getting to call their drill was amazing. I felt good on the final and then headed to Batons. We worked on some elbow and wrist twirls which was so fun! It was nice having a challenge and something new to learn. I went and signed out Stretch and moved his pad. Because of the mud we walked the horses to the Volunteer. I tightened his cinch twice on the way down. I mounted up and did my exercises with him in the center. I had a flag dad tighten it again after warm ups were over. We lined up the first drill and in we went! It was the best drill we rode the whole year. Because I was focused on calling I didn't focus on Stretch as much and that seemed to help. It went so well! The second drill was good but it definitely was not our best. Stretch did okay as CP. He wasn't sure why everyone else was running and he wasn't. We cooled them off and I raced to ropes. I'm finally getting Step Through which is great! I want to master that and darn Jump the Honda before I go to red ropes so I can try and learn the 60ft so I can preform that at annual. I've got a mission again!!! I decided not to JI which was a good thing. I relaxed a little at 2 before I signed out my horse for Liberty. I had summer. She did really good! She tried to dodge the first few jumps but I had my reins on so I was able to steer her towards the jump better. Once she learned it wasn't worth dodging she did every jump like a pro! I was bummed we didn't do the drill but it was great to do jumps again. I took care of Summer and raced to Vaulting. My partner and I rode Ringo because her leaser couldn't have the horse out that late. He did so good! We rode the butt vaulting position and I did tricks for the second drill. It went really well! We have some areas to work on but we have a few months before show season. We unsaddled and my day was done!