Bella's New Show Halter
Showing posts with label Rolex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rolex. Show all posts
Friday, April 30, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Brief Re-Cap of Rolex Trip
Wednesday a.m. finished all my packing, and I did amazingly well and did not over-pack (for a change). I even had room to expand my suitcase for my purchases at Rolex. Yay. We met Aileen at the airport, flew to Louisville, KY, got the rental car and we were off! Lexington, here we come.
As we usually do, we went to the grocery store to get food/drinks for lunches and one dinner. We did quite well in our choices for foods. Sara even came up with the idea to make a parfait for our lunches. We used Greek yogurt, strawberries and/or bananas, honey and granola. It was delish! We took sandwiches made with whole grain bread, drank a lot of water during the day. We did have our splurges, but all in all, we did well in the food department. Aileen make a nice chili and I made corn bread (out of a box), which reminds me, the Cop in a Box is no longer at Liquor Barn in Lexington. He was transferred to Louisville to a new Liquor Barn store. The employees told me that they don't expect to get him back, either. What a disappointment, and speaking of disappointments, Breakfast Boy stood me up for the Rolex week. Man! This entire affair is over now! No second chances for him.
OK. So, I digressed!
Thursday and Friday we got the rain that we expected, but fortunately, was not a torrential downpour and we did have covered grandstand seats for the dressage and the stadium jumping. But first, shopping......
We all hightailed it to the "Clever with Leather" tent, and I bought a halter(with pink, soft leater lined inside for total comfort for Bella with "The Diva" engraved on a nameplate and a belt for me with "Diva's Servant" engraved. We must know our place in life, right? Sara bought Satchmo a halter with "Kill 'Er Tomato" on it with orange, soft leather lined inside for him. These horses are so spoiled.
Aileen bought Bella a new turn-out halter - bright pink and a lead line - purple/pink for her. Bella's old halter is so cruddy looking, that it just can't be cleaned. Bella made out like a bandit with two halters and two leadlines!
My other have-to-have purchase was body lotion that I had bought last year. I stocked up on it this weekend, and in our usual manner, gave the sales person a run for his money. I don't think he will ever be the same! When he said to me, "When we get old, we all start to wrinkle....", I told him I was offended and didn't want the original purchase of the lotion that I had just bought. Poor guy had to suffer through the three of us..... He did survive and he did earn that commission!
We watched a good bit of dressage on Thursday and Friday. One poor woman's horse was not in the mood to do his dressage test. He was spooky when he came out, spooked at the camera, spent most of his time going sideways than straight, never got rounded, had his head up on the air the entire time. The rider did not excuse herself, but ploughed through the test. Her error score was 91! Poor thing. She did make it through cross country, but retired herself early Sunday morning from the stadium jumping. Just not her year this year or her horse's.
After getting my feet soaked on Friday in the rain, I bought some galoshes so that I could walkd around Saturday and not get wet feet, again. Aileen also bought a pair, but Sara had a pair of waterproof boots that she brought with her. So, Saturday morning we all dress up for wet weather, wet ground, and no sun. Even driving to the horse park we were sure the weather was going to nasty. Of course, after we got out of the car and started walking towards the cross country course, the rain stopped and the sun came shining through! It was nice to have sun, but I had to unlayer myself from the sweaters, sweatshirt and rain coat I was wearing. (Good thing is, I did dress in layers!)
The three of us got along well. It's very scary how we were all on the same wave length the duration of the trip. Food was not an issue, what to do at the horse park - no issue, when to leave - no issue; what to eat for dinner - no issue.
The only issue we had was with SouthWest Airlines and the weather in Baltimore. The rain we did't get decided to move northward and hit Baltimore area just as we were going home. We started in Louisville (late), flew part way to Baltimore, (mostly in circles), got diverted to Norfolk to re-fuel and sat and sat and sat and listened to the baby scream its lungs out that was behind us. We finally left Norfolk at 11:30 p.m., got into Baltimore at 12:30 a.m., got our bags, Dave picked us up, and now I'm at work feeling like a zombie.
Of course, MARC train, in all its gloriousness, was late this morning, too. I took the late train so that I could get another hour's sleep. Sheesh! Trains and Planes - don't want to discuss them any more.
I will leave at 3:30 p.m. today and catch the 4:13. All I can say is it better not be late! I'm tired of public transportation that doesn't go anywhere.
Pictures to come.
As we usually do, we went to the grocery store to get food/drinks for lunches and one dinner. We did quite well in our choices for foods. Sara even came up with the idea to make a parfait for our lunches. We used Greek yogurt, strawberries and/or bananas, honey and granola. It was delish! We took sandwiches made with whole grain bread, drank a lot of water during the day. We did have our splurges, but all in all, we did well in the food department. Aileen make a nice chili and I made corn bread (out of a box), which reminds me, the Cop in a Box is no longer at Liquor Barn in Lexington. He was transferred to Louisville to a new Liquor Barn store. The employees told me that they don't expect to get him back, either. What a disappointment, and speaking of disappointments, Breakfast Boy stood me up for the Rolex week. Man! This entire affair is over now! No second chances for him.
OK. So, I digressed!
Thursday and Friday we got the rain that we expected, but fortunately, was not a torrential downpour and we did have covered grandstand seats for the dressage and the stadium jumping. But first, shopping......
We all hightailed it to the "Clever with Leather" tent, and I bought a halter(with pink, soft leater lined inside for total comfort for Bella with "The Diva" engraved on a nameplate and a belt for me with "Diva's Servant" engraved. We must know our place in life, right? Sara bought Satchmo a halter with "Kill 'Er Tomato" on it with orange, soft leather lined inside for him. These horses are so spoiled.
Aileen bought Bella a new turn-out halter - bright pink and a lead line - purple/pink for her. Bella's old halter is so cruddy looking, that it just can't be cleaned. Bella made out like a bandit with two halters and two leadlines!
My other have-to-have purchase was body lotion that I had bought last year. I stocked up on it this weekend, and in our usual manner, gave the sales person a run for his money. I don't think he will ever be the same! When he said to me, "When we get old, we all start to wrinkle....", I told him I was offended and didn't want the original purchase of the lotion that I had just bought. Poor guy had to suffer through the three of us..... He did survive and he did earn that commission!
We watched a good bit of dressage on Thursday and Friday. One poor woman's horse was not in the mood to do his dressage test. He was spooky when he came out, spooked at the camera, spent most of his time going sideways than straight, never got rounded, had his head up on the air the entire time. The rider did not excuse herself, but ploughed through the test. Her error score was 91! Poor thing. She did make it through cross country, but retired herself early Sunday morning from the stadium jumping. Just not her year this year or her horse's.
After getting my feet soaked on Friday in the rain, I bought some galoshes so that I could walkd around Saturday and not get wet feet, again. Aileen also bought a pair, but Sara had a pair of waterproof boots that she brought with her. So, Saturday morning we all dress up for wet weather, wet ground, and no sun. Even driving to the horse park we were sure the weather was going to nasty. Of course, after we got out of the car and started walking towards the cross country course, the rain stopped and the sun came shining through! It was nice to have sun, but I had to unlayer myself from the sweaters, sweatshirt and rain coat I was wearing. (Good thing is, I did dress in layers!)
The three of us got along well. It's very scary how we were all on the same wave length the duration of the trip. Food was not an issue, what to do at the horse park - no issue, when to leave - no issue; what to eat for dinner - no issue.
The only issue we had was with SouthWest Airlines and the weather in Baltimore. The rain we did't get decided to move northward and hit Baltimore area just as we were going home. We started in Louisville (late), flew part way to Baltimore, (mostly in circles), got diverted to Norfolk to re-fuel and sat and sat and sat and listened to the baby scream its lungs out that was behind us. We finally left Norfolk at 11:30 p.m., got into Baltimore at 12:30 a.m., got our bags, Dave picked us up, and now I'm at work feeling like a zombie.
Of course, MARC train, in all its gloriousness, was late this morning, too. I took the late train so that I could get another hour's sleep. Sheesh! Trains and Planes - don't want to discuss them any more.
I will leave at 3:30 p.m. today and catch the 4:13. All I can say is it better not be late! I'm tired of public transportation that doesn't go anywhere.
Pictures to come.
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