on to the next...

It's Friday afternoon, I just got home from repacking, reorganizing, re-stacking, and exponentially expanding the pure volume of stuff we are taking to the next camp. The next camp? Yes. Another! This time we are driving four horses down to Virginia, Wynton to stay at Stonehall, and Dylan, Hubert and Ranger are headed along with C, Jen and I to the Virginia Horse Park to participate in the week long O'Conner Event Camp.


This week is going to be intense, long, and I am sure, SO much fun. 

We finished packing this afternoon, and I am pretty sure we didn't even unpack half of what we took to the last camp.... there was a lot of moving things from one trailer to the other. Or throwing it in the laundry, and straight back into a bag in the four horse. Quite the production.

I am also sure that I should be packing my own things for this next week, but I am working on CD's to listen to on the way to Virginia and getting motivated looking at photos from the last camp. Speaking of which, here are some from tuesday's stadium lesson at the Phillip Dutton Camp (compliments of the lovely Megan Schneider)

commiserating

phillip

a nice candid

socializing, pre-  cross country position and pace lesson with Ryan Wood

waiting our turn

ooo feet!

warm up trot around the track

look! the cutest/best horses at the camp!

our new friend Jody from New York

and this video is a little funny.... but it features meg! she took a bunch of super great, really long videos, but I haven't stolen them yet.


So. While we were at Phillip's we made friends with, Michele and her horse Socrates, who was a super willing guy just starting his eventing career. I took a (maybe more than one, but i havent found the other yet) video of them, and promised I would share it with her, and this seems to be the easiest method. (And then everyone can see how awesome Socrates (and Michele!) was.)

Anyway. I can't wait to share what we get to do at the O'Conner Camp, so stay posted!