There's a first time for everything...right?

Two weeks ago at my horseback riding lessons, I did three things for the very first time.
1. I rode a different horse at my lesson
2. I got to canter
3. I fell off

So, for number one...the horse I usually ride was at a horse show, so I had to ride my teacher's mare who's a little more lively then Splash....her name is Mystery. She's part Appaloosa and part Morgan, and she is very attached to Splash (you'll understand why I put that part in later on in the story...=o)

For number two...I got to canter...now I know all you people who think I'm obsessed with horses will not believe this and think I'm going crazy or something, but you go from trotting which is like clump clump clump clump to cantering which is like clump.....clump......and this is not an exaggeration, but you feel like you are flying...I know horse people say riding a horse is like flying, but it's true if you're cantering...it's so smooth and fun and graceful...okay enough with that...

Now for point three....falling off...I was riding bareback (and I don't do very well with that anyways) and Splash came home, well Mystery saw him and decided she was going to trot around the arena to get to him...well I wasn't ready for it and so I started slipping, now if it was Splash he would have stopped because that's what he does when he feels you fall off...but Mystery either doesn't or was just so excited that she wasn't paying attention to me...so I started slipping and I was slipping towards the fence...and the teacher says "Don't grab the fence! Don't grab the fence!" Well I was already falling off the horse that way so I just grabbed the fence, because I couldn't regain my balance and fall the other way or I wouldn't have fallen off at all...so I grabbed the fence and the horse walks a few feet and stops...and the teacher tells me that I'm not supposed to grab the fence and why and all the stuff teacher's are supposed to say and then while she was talking she helped me get back on really fast...and I didn't realize till later that she made me get back on so fast so that I wouldn't be scared and not want to ride anymore. Anyway...there's my exciting life story...

She was being a stinker and kept pulling her head away from me...

I think I was cantering in this picture, but I'm not sure...

I'm going to post lake pictures...along with everybody else who did...but I'm not sure when I'll get to it...

~Kluane~