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Friday, July 25, 2008

Smells like horse camp

Meg went to a Christian girl's horse camp for a week, something she looks forward to every summer.

Here's a peek at her last day, the camp's "show-deo" day, when family arrives to take the campers home.

It's a long drive...

I think this is called 'vaulting'.

Impressive. But is is worth motherly heart palpitations?

And I ask you, where is her helmet?

I'm not sure what this was on it's way to being..
but I ask again,

"where is her helmet? Safety first, anyone?"

I only gave birth to her...after 10 hours or so, emergency c-section...but hey, don't ask me my opinion, I'm only her mother....

There was a family camp going on at the same place, I spied a 10 year old lugging this-

I think it's an air purifier...

because that's the important thing to pack- what could be more important than pure air, way up in the crisp, clean mountains?....

Then again, it could be a heater...then I would be all thumbs up...
Still, it diverted us, highly.

I always have an adventure driving up to horse camp, like for instance last year's epic
(disaster 1) (disaster 2)...go ahead, I'll wait if you want to laugh at me...or feel sorry for my husband...

This year went much better.

Except when I realized I was about to be passed, on the way down the mountain...by a bicyclist.

Here he is....

Sky thought he was merely drafting our van. But no, he passed my open window on the left- and kept hauling down that mountain. It would have been a great photo. But I couldn't, you know, drive and dig out my camera. Sky took this photo, since I was busy trying to navigate the turns and not get sick, and look out for more speed demon bicycles looking to pass me...

We caught up to him in the flatlands.

And told him to eat our dust.

Much fist pumping in the air happening in our van as we passed by.

We're kind of nerdy that way.

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posted at 2:03 PM
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4 Comments:

At 5:54 PM, Susanne said...: LOL. Oh, Jenny, you gave me a good chuckle with this one. A bicyclist passing you. I can just see it. Too funny.

And those same thoughts would have totally been going through my head while watching my girl on horse. Eek! She seems like she did great though!
At 4:41 AM, Anonymous said...: Jenny: How lucky your daughter is to have a horse camp opportunity. My children vaulted -- and as a speech language pathologist I had the same reservations about the helmet ..... BUT I did my homework and found out no reputable equestrian association recommends helmets for vaulter (for riders OF COURSE!) (this includes: FEI, USEF, CHA, US Pony Clubs. Over 25 countries vault -- and none advocate the use of helmets. In Australia there are special laws to exempt vaulters from the mandatory helmet laws in Australia and Canada :) Please also review these links: http://asci.uvm.edu/equine/law/amea/jun00nws.htm#acrobatics and http://asci.uvm.edu/equine/law/amea/may96nws.htm#vault

Vaulting is the most positive childhood experience both of my kids had .... best of luck to your daughter and LOVED the shot of the air purifier! Jan
At 6:43 AM, Blessed Mommy said...: I almost dropped my cup of coffee and this post, too funny.
At 10:51 AM, Hen Jen said...: Susanne,

always so glad you stopped by and commented- you always make me smile!!

Jan,

thank you for the links- they wore helmets for all the other riding, I did figure it was a vaulting thing-not wearing the helmet, but I have to say it caused me some concern when Meg went over the side, head pointed at the ground- then I suddenly thought a helmet was a good idea!

thanks for stopping by and commenting!

Blessed mommy-

glad you didn't drop it...;)

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