Thursday, November 7, 2013

Covered Bridge Festival and Riding

Towards the end of October, one of my best friends, Jane, and I went to Covered Bridge Festival in Bridgeton, IN. Covered Bridge Festival is a multi-town festival that showcases arts & crafts vendors, business vendors, bakers, flea market and of course, covered bridges. This was our second year going together.






Jane had a caricature done:



Then we headed over to Greencastle to meet up with a college friend, Candice, who has a barn there. The route there was mostly back roads, and we came across a covered bridge that we had to drive over. 


It was quite scary, but we made it! 


This is what most of the route looked like. Parts were even gravel road.


Now, I have ridden once in the last 5-6 years and that was a walking trail ride. I was pleased that my position still looks decent. My camera does not like action shots, so please pardon the blurriness. This is me and Ahba, a 26-ish year old Shagya Arabian mare. She was so sweet and comfy. Like riding on a couch ;) 




Video - Jane is first. This was her first time cantering in an English saddle. I'm towards the end. The little boy is Candice's son on his pony :) 



Jane on Fauna, me on Ahba. 
Fauna is an Arabian mare.

(We had matching shirts, just different colors, on older grey mares. haha...)


Candice's place is lovely. This is the path between the two pastures. It's a really nice set up. It'd be perfect for one person to handle everything. If our place was set up different, I'd love to do something like this.



We rode in the outside ring for a little while and switched horses.
Me and Fauna


Candice decided that I needed to "jump" a "course"
Video:



I don't know why I trotted the whole thing, but whatever. 

Candice and I