We did a lot this weekend. I tried my hand at attending tennis lessons — in Spanish. It was a lot of fun! I enjoyed being active and out. Jeff signed me up through the instructor who also works at Jeff’s school; and somehow managed to let him know I needed a racket and was told I pay $10 euro per lesson. About half way through, as I fumbled along trying to understand the drill one of the other three women says to me “You have to switch sides.” In perfect English. I was so happy to find that someone spoke English and hopeful maybe I’ll find some folks to practice my Spanish with – over wine of course.
We took the girls Horseback riding. I booked the rides online but it was completely unclear when we should show up. I sent an email, in English, and never heard back so we headed out on Saturday hopeful it would work out. After several attempts to convey that we hoped Jeff & October could go on a trail ride while the other two just rode around the property the owner/receptionist got us speaking to her English speaking son and we were all set. I am not a horse person. I had no intention of riding. I certainly had no intention of leading a horse around in a circle for an hour while I gave Scarlett & Lavender turns on the horse. But that is what I did in the blazing hot sun in my sandals. Lavender had a blast. Scarlett wanted to go on a trail ride like her sister. October & Jeff headed off with little instruction for a trail ride. They had just left the property when I saw October on her horse with her horse walking her back to the stables with the trail guide running down the road behind her. I was concerned. And I later learned so was Jeff. But the guide got them all straightened out and off they went. October had a great time! She kept exclaiming how she never thought she’d ever ride a horse without someone holding it! We’ll be returning, well at least Jeff & October will be returning for trail rides later in the year (Scarlett & Lavender are too little) as it was really reasonably priced at 15 euros per horse.
We also went to Madrid. To which I brought my nice DSLR camera only to realize once I arrived that I failed to put the photo card back into the camera. Argh! I did have my phone and Jeff his so I’ll get those pictures up in another blog.
You can’t see it but she also has her cowboy boots on.
October is on the white horse. This is as they are first leaving the stables.
Here’s October and her horse as her horse starts turning around to go back to the stables.
October returning with a big grin and a thumbs up!
More pictures can be found at our online family photo album . I was getting some unwanted spam and since I upload all of our family pictures here, it is password protected. If you don’t know the password, email me 🙂
Great pics! Too funny about you being horse leader :O