ESTES!!!!!!!

I LOVE SHOWERS. I will never under appreciate them again. I'm going to break estes down by day.

THURSDAY
- Grooming night. Between my partner and I we were done and packed in less than an hour. Luckily GoldDust barely has any white so we didn't have to give her a bath.
FRIDAY
- I woke up at 4am to get to Westernaires by 5:30, we got GoldDust all wrapped and groomed. Then my partner loaded her while I loaded a Keno for a guy. Then I carpooled up to estes and got there early after some Starbucks hahaha. So we loaded our stuff into the gym before turning in the car keys and checking in. Then by the time I found my stall my partner already had gold dust settled. We forgot to buy extra shavings which came back to bite us on Saturday. Then was lunch and all teams practice before the practice show at 1. I got to ride serpentine all weekend so that was a real treat! The practice show was good. We never got a line up so that was frustrating but ropes was at the end of the show so i had eons to change. I had a small horse quick change from royal to crimson. Then we had dinner and it was show time!!! We wore our purple vests with black jeans. GoldDust had a perfect place to tie the saddle cover down so that was really nice. Royal did AMAZING!!!! It kind of sucked that I was a point but it was still an amazing drill. Ropes I messed up lay down but handshake and Texas went AMAZING!!!!!!! I was so ready for bed. We had a 10min walk from the horses to the gym and we had to walk it sooooooo many times each day. Not to mention changing outfits every 10 minutes. I fell asleep before lights out at 11.
SATURDAY
- 6am wake up call....love it hahaha. We had breakfast and got the horses stretched out and exercised. Then we headed into town to promote the show and shop. I bought a horse hair keychain that almost identically matched stretch's color. After that was personal time. I chose horse time so I hopped on GoldDust bareback and just let her walk the whole time. We trotted a little but I really just wanted to give her time out of the stall. Then we had senior speeches......I'm just gonna say i cried like a baby. Then we had dinner and got ready for show #2! Our seniors chose pirate shirts but with red jeans. I prefer them with black but oh well! I will never get over how comfortable those shirts are. Royal had a good ride but not as good as friday. Ropes on the other hand was perfect. All my tricks were amazing!!!! Then we hiked the hill yet again and went to sleep.
SUNDAY
- 5AM WAKE UP! At this point everyone was sooooo done and ready to go home. We got the stalls cleaned out and checked by a barn dad. I waited to load golddust. We were up the ramp for the last trailer spot but stax was freaking out so they put teddy on instead of me. So I waited for another 20minutes. I was one of the last waiting to load. I finally had my friend load gold dust because my carpool had to leave. So we drove down to the fairgrounds. Once I arrived at about 9:30 i found out trailer 102 blew a tire.... guess which one gold dust was on. 102. So All the other trailers arrived at about 10 and mine didn't show up until about 12:30. I was so hot and tired and ready to go home. So was poor gold dust. My partner and I were desperately just trying to kill time. I finally got home at about 2pm.

Estes was so much fun. I was so done with walking and changing clothes but my I am very happy to say that my first red division and travel show is complete!!! I can't wait for next year!!!!!!! GoldDust was a perfect little angel who always drank her water and did everything I asked of her.