My Trip

I’m back. I had a very busy weekend in Arkansas. It started Saturday morning for me about 4:30am. I got up, got dressed, collected all my stuff that I needed to take, loaded the horse in the trailer, drove over to my friends' house, unloaded all my stuff into their truck and trailer and began our journey at 5:40am. We were about halfway to Pine Bluff when we felt something jerk the trailer. We pulled off the highway and discovered we had a blowout. Then Cash discovered that somebody had left the keys to the spare tire and the tack compartment at the house. So he had to beat the lock off the spare tire. Then we got back on the road hoping to make it before 12:00. We were supposed to be at the Team Penning arena around ten or eleven, but we found out that the Team Penning arena was about thirty miles away from the main arena. We got there at 12:00. Found some bolt cutters and cut of the lock to the tack room. We saddled and started warming up our horses .

Then we went in for our first round of team penning. It was so fun . Our team did very well the first round. We had 2 teams. The team I was on was all girls: Chloe, Claire and myself. Then the other team was Cash, Clayton and Claire. It was really fun going up against my friends. Then we did second go -around and we did very well that time too, but the boys beat us by 2 seconds. We came in second place and the boys came in first. Then we unsaddled, loaded up, and headed to the Reining. I thought we were just going to watch, but learned that I was going to do it. It was pattern 7 which I did not know at all. I had never even done reining before in my life. However, I had been practicing the maneuvers. I was eleventh in line. Cash was fourth in line, then Clair was 6th , Clayton was 9th and I was eleventh. Cash had a really beautiful ride. Then it was finally my turn. I walked up to the gate, spurred him into a lope, ran down the arena, did my roll back, ran down to the other end, did another roll back, loped to the center of the arena, slid to a stop, backed up to the center cone, did 4 spins to the right and 5 spins to the left. (That just stinks, I was only supposed to do 4 ¼ spins to the left.) I knew I overspun when I did it, but O well, anyway I won’t bore you with any more detail about the pattern, except when I was on my last run down/ stop, I looked down at the ground and saw a wad of money laying of the ground. I thought, O look, there's some money on the ground . Hey! There was money back there. I had a lot of fun. It was so exciting and I can’t wait for next time. O, this show was a qualifier to go to AQHYA World Show in Fort Worth.

P.S. About the money in the arena . Well, as I exited the arena, I passed my friend Clayton who was riding after me. I said, "Hey, Clayton, on the right side of the arena right by the center cone, there is a wad of money."He said," I’ll pick it up." When he was doing his fast and large circle, he saw the money and flipped off his hat not a foot away. Right after his run down, he got off his horse and picked up his hat and money. It was a pretty big wad of money. When he rode out of the arena, he said, "I earned 2 bucks out of that ride." Then we rode back to the trailer, unsaddled, loaded the horses, got in the truck at about 8:30pm and started our five hour ride home. At about midnight, we stopped and ate at Denny’s because we were all starving and then commenced on the rest of our journey arriving back at my friends house at 3:00am dog tired.
Well I have got to go and get a little rest .
See ya.