THE Event: XC Day

Hello one and all! So the event is going well. I had my dressage test on Thursday and it was alright. Not as good as I was hoping. I didn't get him quite like I wanted to but he was alright. I was a dumb dumb and messed up a little on my test. Freakin retard!!! I cantered too soon both directions but they didn't give me error points just gave me a lower score on that movement. Somehow I ended up with a 32.5 which put me at 7 out of 22. Pretty crazy. Apparently even tho I felt like I did kinda poorly I guess I did things that the judge was looking for. Crazy stuff mate. You never know what your score will be like because every judge looks for different things. Lani, my trainer, said she thought I'd get a score in the low forties. I'm glad that didn't happen!

Today was my favorite day. CROSS COUNTRY!!!!!! :D :D :D I didn't ride until 4:30 which is kinda lame because it means I had to wait around all bloody day....in fact it's 12:11 right now. I'm just typing this up in the past tense to waste some time until I can boogie!! I'll send this hopefully later tonight....but we'll see. Ok, so ten hours, twenty minutes, and fifteen seconds later I am back to tell you how my course ran. IT WAS FREAKIN AMAZING!!! Oh it was so fun!!!! We went around double clear which means we didn't get any time penalties or jump. AND I didn't go around the course at a million miles an hour!!! :D It was so good and he was such a good boy!! There were long stretches that I let him just run because I love going fast and so does he :) But I didn't let us get stupidly out of control. Ahhhh!!! I wish I could do that all over again! When I got off I had all my friend ask me which fence Scout stopped at. This confused me because he didn't stop. He NEVER stops, ever. Apparently the announcer said that I had two refusals at a fence and so all my friends were worried because it's so unlike Scout to stop at a fence on cross country. The score board said that I was double clear though and that's what really matters :) Yay!! What a fun 4 mins and 27 seconds!! :D

Friday morning at two thirty I woke up because I big lightning storm rolled in. I quickly go outta bed and with the help of our vet friend put my rain shield on my tent. The dumb wind was blowing just enough that I couldn't put it on alone. Luckily she was out taking care of her horses and I grabbed her before she went to bed. It's crazy weather here. It's so hot and humid in the day (40% here and 30% at home) but gets really chilly at night. The first morning I could see my breath when I woke up. It's suppose to be worse weather tomorrow :( I hear it's super hot at home tho I guess none of us in the BMorris clan would know because we're all out of town at the moment (sorry Trist, you're part of your own clan now).

The two jumping are my friends on their cross country courses. The first one is Ingrid and Miss and the second is Summer(the vet friend) and Tim :) This was Tims' second time going around prelim. He had no jump faults but 13.2 time faults. Prelim is two levels above what level I am at. Miss(the white looking horse) jumped the novice course just like I did with Scout.

Well, I suppose that's enough of me boring you with all my horsey competition talk. I'll let you know how Sunday goes. Peace out man.