Merry Christmas!!!

Overall, a lovely, laid-back Christmas. Best gift: Rodgers and Hammerstein's complete DVD collection from Marc. Also best gift: fancy watch and Northface boots from the mom. Also best gift: lovely sweaters (2 of 'em) from my sweetest Molly. Now that the holidays are almost over, I am ready to go back to Florida so I can be warm for the next three months.

May is huge. HUGE! Haven't seen the horse in a few days because it is dreadful and raining here. Blech.

Back from San Diego...

Below are some pics from our wild trip to San Diego to visit Marc's family. We are finally home after an overnight delay in a Chicago snow storm. The people in the pics are Grand-Mere (Marc's grandma), Claude (his father), and Zac, Montana, and Dan (nephew, niece, and brother). We had the best time. My favorite part was that we went on a whale-watching sea-kayak adventure. While we didn't actually see any whales close-up, we had sea lions swimming around our kayaks and we saw seals that weren't in a zoo. It was, I think, even better than Disney World.

We spent lots of time with the family - the hosted a lovely brunch for us and fed us the best food and wine in San Diego. I got to eat fresh mussels, which taste nothing like Ohio imported mussels and had an overall practically perfect time. Okay, so the trip home was absolute hell...but it's in the balance that we find meaning.

I guess I haven't blogged since returning to Ohio. I've returned to Ohio. I miss all of my friends in Florida SO SO SO much and I can't wait to go back and watch Spyder at HITS! (He won reserve champion in Tampa this weekend).

Hope you are all well!

Thanksgiving in Orlando....

more pictures from Florida

Eduardo and Julio and I


Bea and I being silly at Thanksgiving



My dressage instructor, Matt






Jumping Valentino

Bridget, Valentino's previous owner



worm friend



Jeremias - my favorite groom



Bea - our working student and my little sis here in Orlando

Spyder is awesome....

Couple of new pics of Spyder with Julio riding him. Good boy

Pictures of Nostradamus and Valentino

and more florida pictures

My friend Beatrix on Spyder

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my pool




2 of my students

more horse pics

three pictures from a recent show - blurry, but still an actual show picture~






Liza, one of my favorite florida people, and her horse Peekaboo



The truck I drive every day. No accidents yet. knock on wood.

Pictures of Nostrodamus

This is one of my favorite horses here in Florida. He is so sweet and is a confidence builder for me when I am having a bad riding day.

I miss you guys! More pics coming....

Pictures from Ledesma

So these are, in some order:

Spyder chillin' in the field
Me jumping Uva
Susan jumping Spyder
Our very cool welcome cookout
I can't remember the last one

all the pics are on picasa, so check them out. We are having a blast and learning a lot. I am so sunburned!

OMG

so so so so so so so busy! Will post as soon as I have a second. Holy Crap. 12 hour days. 6 days a week. But I love it!

We're on our way!

Two pictures I like...FIrst, my brother and sister holding up our baby tree in the wind storm.




Getting to hang out with my Shawnna yesterday.



Spyder made it to Orlando last night and Susan and I are hoping to make it most of the way through today.

Now I'm nervous.

Two days left!

Below is a picture of Julio Ledesma, owner of the barn where Susan and I will be working. We can't wait to get started!




Spyder is on this trailer headed down to Florida. He should arrive on Tuesday morning.



I am totally packed and Susan and I will be leaving Wednesday morning and we are going to try to drive most of it on Wednesday. Have any of you driven 75 all the way down? There seem to be two routes - I75 and another route that takes you down the coast. We haven't made a final decision.

I am going to be taking tons of pictures along the way - so I will keep posting daily!