Wednesday, September 06, 2006

My LOOONNNGGGG Weekend

So last weekend was a long weekend here in Canada and the USA - Labour Day weekend.
Here in my town our family spends this weekend, and the entire month before preparing for it, down at Island 22 Horse Park.
We are part of the main organizing committee. Our corporate sponsor this year asked us to tally up our volunteer hours over the year so that they knew how hard we worked - mine was over 100hours.
AUGH!
This is a three day long competition that involved over 170 horses and riders this year. Crazy!
They all started showing up on Friday and we ended up with a pretty major camper land!


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In our house we also had the Technical Delegate (Head rules boss), the Radio Controller and dad's new German Exchange student (nice girl). FULL HOUSE!
But ToddlerJi was a very good girl.

On Saturday the riders all did dressage but I didnt take any pictures of it, stupid really, because I was walking the x-country courses trying to take photos of all the jumps.

On Sunday was the crazy x-country day.
I used to do this stuff years ago when I was younger and had a horse.


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While this cool x-country stuff was going on I was helping to set up the Stadium course for Monday. Remember how I said I painted on my birthday, well these stadium jumps was what I was painting. They looked awsome and very dazzeling. There were a lot of horses a little put off by the bright colours and our course designer built an amazing course.


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There are TONS more excellent photos on the web site on a special page that I set up right here.

ToddlerJi cought a cold, and then gave it to me, but she was a good girl and had fun playing with her stroller:


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and then swimming in the water jump because it was sooooo hot.


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It was a busy, long but good weekend.


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