Exciting day!

Lots of great things today! Firstly as I type it is raining, yay yay yay yay!!! You can hear the tank filling (albeit a bit slowly) which is just fantastic :-) And secondly Oscar had his first outing at the forest, and his first truck ride with me - although the way he loaded I suspect he's been on a truck before!

He was just great on the ride, couldn't have asked for better. He really seemed to enjoy getting out too and was very brave and led the way to begin with and even managed to get past a few really scary things (a bushy branch halfway across the track is apparently a horse-eating branch). But pretty bloody good for a baby really, think I have got myself quite a cool wee horse.

Anyway as exciting as the rain is (which is pretty exciting when your tanks are empty and you need to have a wash) it's not very exciting having pics of the rain so here are pics at the forest:

The boys ready to go

This is before we rode - and see how wild and crazy this 5yo green thoroughbred is, resting his nose on the rail and half asleep lol

Action shots - taken on the move courtesy of Ellie

Ellie and spunky Spyke

He was pretty pooped afterwards, and fair enough it's all sand and some of it quite deep in parts. Will be great for his fitness though. Already thinking about when we can go next! Have to say that is the best forest ride I've had in a while, thanks to my mate Ellie for trucking us there. He is all tucked up in a rug and has had a nice dinner now so can take it easy - for a while at least. We have a lesson tomorrow morning so I think he'll need a day off after that. Then adult ride on Wednesday night, should be all recovered for then.

And to finish of a great day, got home to Ben starting dinner, and cracking open a bottle of Champagne. Pretty good life huh!