last saturday my sister invited me to go on a trail ride with her and my dad. i said sure i wasn't doing anything and i knew eric would have to work all day. she met me at mom's and we drove up to dad's together. dad already had the horse trailer hooked up so we climbed into the truck and made our way to the barn. nellie has a horse named phoenix that i was going to ride, she was going to ride a friend's horse spud (because spud's a bit crazier and i'm a beginner) and dad was borrowing a horse named trixie from another friend. so we get to the barn and grab spud first cause he's hardest to get into the trailer. we get him in without much trouble but as soon as we shut the door behind him so that dad can get him tied in he starts bolting out backwards and slams the trailer door wide open! nellie and i run to get outta the way - luckily he is cornered cause of the way we parked the trailer near the barn so it was easy to grab him. nellie threw him back in the pasture though cause we knew it would only get worse if we tried to force him in there. so nellie decides that she is going to take my other sister BJ's horse, gunner. gunner is a young ex-race horse so she warns us that if we take him we can't go any faster than a trot or he will be flying so fast she won't be able to stop him. we round up gunner and phoenix (who have both seen spud flip out) and try for an hour to get them into the trailer! so far this isn't looking so good and we still have one more horse to go. we ended up resorting to snapping a whip behind them and they FINALLY went in. we drive over to get dad's loaner horse and she is penned up in a riding ring running circles. another red flag i think. the owner says she usually has no problems getting trixie into a trailer but today was just not our day. we tried for 40 minutes to get her into the trailer with the others but she just wasn't having it so we gave up and threw her back in the pasture. it is now seven o'clock and we've spent 2 hours trying to just get the horses into the trailer! we ended up just taking the two over to dad's and playing around in his riding ring. it was alright but not the trail ride we all thought it would be!
sunday we hung out at mom's, monday i worked and then hung out with mom and my cousin amanda, tuesday i worked and then some of my girlfriends came over and picked me up and then we went and picked up another girlfriend and the 4 of us went to the happy gnome in st. paul for drinks. when we got there is started to rain and there was a hostess outside. we said "your patio is probably closed huh?" she said "yes there is no seating in the patio or the dining room at this time - you can try to find a spot at the bar but its crowded." and thats all she said. no can i take your name? or this is about how long the wait time is for a table. no nothing. so we went somewhere else. we ended up at salut on grand ave where my auntie debbie works. she just happened to be working that night so we sat in her section. we talked and drank blackberry mojito martini's, ate their delicious french fries (best fries in st paul!) and also shared 2 desserts of creme brulee and red velvet cake! it was so much fun! it was amazing to just spend some quality girl time sharing stories and catching up.
tonight i am headed up to my dad's again to celebrate his 56th birthday!
write more later
xoxo
