Wednesday, November 23, 2005

RIDER'S LODGE RULES!!! haha d trip was really really really fun!! went up this weekend w/ my family, tanya and caro. got to rl at abt 10ish (looong car ride cuz my dad got lost halfway and there was a traffic jam at d causeway.) and then went down to check who we were riding. was supposed to ride katie 4 d 11 lesson (jumping) w/ catz but d last time i jumped her was soooo bad. begged catz 4 a change and she changed it to... *drumroll*... KAMPONG!!! :D:D:D caro was on AVC and there was this japanese lady on d new pony pipsqueak (more on her later -- pip not d jap lady) and her fren on mr boots. tanya joined d lesson on crowe. started out w/ trotting poles then small cross pole jumps. pip was behaving exactly like penny over d poles (urgh :S:S:S nightmare) aka gallopping over them again and again and her rider eventually slid off. luckily she landed quite lightly. catz then switched pip to rocky who was a biggg improvement. tanya was of course going over d jumps w/ ease on crowe. AVC was being a tad lazy but caro got him going nicely. kampong? HE WAS AMMMMAAZZING!!!!! then catz put up 3 srt jumps and then asked us to go over them in order w/ 2 rein changes!!! i was like OMG i've neva even done smt like that b4. haha but it was really fun!!! all i had to do was point darling kampong at d jump, look at d next jump and go into 2 pt seat. HE ROCKS!!! oh yeah and halfway during d lessson i went into 2 pt too early and kampong jumped d jump and i dno what happened but when he landed i was sitting in front of d saddle, and i lost my stirrups and my helmet had slid 4ward over my eyes. caro later told me she was like "okay she's a goner. this is fall no 1" haha. luckily i manged to get back in d saddle and didn't fall... though i though i would...

went 4 lunch at legends then since my sibs didn;t have any lessons they stayed there 2 swim and d 3 of us walked bk to rl cuz there was no buggy. quite a short walk really. when we got bk we were sooo bored so we asked catz if there was ny one we could take out 2 graze. caro took super force out cuz he was lame i think. i took artic (he's sooo cute!!) and tanya took firehouse.

we had a dressage lesson at 3 w/ catz. i had sandman, caro had pip and tanya had crowe. there was this girl called stephanie on AVC. sandman was being absolutely HORRID. he kept shying away from d corners at A. when i made him go into them he bolted. twice. sigh... nway we practised dressage test one by one. so one person would stay in d arena w/ catz and d rest would go walk ard d pond. i did d 1.1 test on him but catz didn't want me to canter him cuz of his bolting so i did sitting trot instead of canters.

after d lesson we took pip out and barebacked her. steph tagged along w/ us which kinda got a bit annoying. then we put her back and took out super, crowe mars and sarabago. had dinner at d cafe ( REALLY YUMMY FOOD) and then took some photos. after, we begged catz to loan us a movie. wanted to watch In Her Shoes but catz was kinda reluctant so we watched peter pan instead (d movie not d cartoon) on steph's labtop in our room.

nxt day we had a lesson at 9 w/ catz and tanya had a private jumping w/ jay at 8. woke up and changed then had breakfast. then went down. tanya was like soo tired after her lesson haha. steph was oso in our 9 o'clock lesson. she rode boots, caro rode chester and i rode pipsqueak. we warmed up and then we practised dressage tests again. catz asked me to do d novice 2.1 test and i was like soo shocked and told her i didn't memorise d test. so in d end she called it out and i did it on darling darling pip. she was soooo nice!!! she's really 4ward and all. plus her canter is REALLY fast but w/ some half halts aka bergardes it was really nice!! only prob was it was kinda hard to halt her squarely. :S and get her on d bit... ah wells.

after that i had a lesson at 11 and i nearly rode big splendor but jay gave me diamond. catz took d lesson. and i did d 1.1 test again. diamond was really nice but it's kinda hard to get him to do circles in canter. he was really nice and forward though. oh yes! there was this REALLY REALLY irritating guy in d lesson. he and his daughter were in d lesson plus 2 other french girls. he was riding boots and was like talking to him like he expected boots to understand him. "walk on" , "trot on" , "halt... whoa" it was sooo irritating. plus his voice is really loud!! i think catz got kinda irritated by d end of d lesson too. after d lesson went to walk around d pond then walked over to d other arena where my sibs were having their begginner lesson w/ jay. it was quite cute watching them haha. then after that brought diamond back and then we went 4 lunch at some chinese restaurant then went bk to singapore.

|`kath| 10:59 AM|

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