I broke a tooth. Its a baby tooth too so it will probably just end up getting pulled and then I'll be ready to pull my bass boat with my IROC.
Anyway, this past week, my mom and I were at the Shetland Pony Congress in Lake St. Louis. It was long and hot. Wednesday, Tinkerbell won 6th of nine in her futurity class which was good. Then her and Cody sucked it up not placing in the next two classes.
Thursday, Dad picked me up and we went to Columbia to move me into my new apartment. Its nice with vaulted ceilings and a big bathroom. I am actually going to get some furniture and this place has AC!
Then Friday, we did some more showing. Friday night I was in charge of the youth olympics which basically consisted of keeping some kids entertained for two hours. So we played some lame games and then ate pizza then played a rousing game of kickball. When those activities officially ended, the kids still wanted to play kickball so I left my ball with them and laid out some ground rules (everyone gets to play, pick up the bases, trash, etc., watch for ponies, give me back my ball). Unfortunatly, very early on my ball was kicked and lodged itself into the rafters of the horse show arena where they were playing.
Saturday, we did some more showing and Nell showed in her jumping classes. She wrecked it in hunter but placed 9th which I was totally surprised at because there were like 13 in the class. In jumper, she went clean the first round but as we were leaving the course, I tripped and fell. You get disqualified if you or the horse falls on course. Luckily, I had cleared the cones! Because so many people had clean first rounds we had to go again for time. I went third or fourth and at that point had the fastest time. In the end though, I placed third losing second by...a TENTH OF A SECOND! The first place horse was like five seconds faster. It was a good class with 11 total ponies in it.
Today, I am hanging out and doing laundry before going back to my new apartment and hoping to at least get my bed put together. Tomorrow I am going to buy or at least put on hold my furniture. Hopefully, they still have the red couch I was looking at.
One of the days at the show, my mom dropped a fan on my head while I was asleep. It hurt.
Sarah Frei is alive and well...at least I think. She returned my phone calls finally only to get my voice mail. But I heard her voice! Or at least someone that sounds like her...
So I had written something about camping but that was about the time when my mom's Wal-Mart computer shot craps and died. So I'll try again...
I went camping last weekend with Joe and his family-his mom, Jackie, Casey, Scott and Gabbi. Joe had to work Friday night and then drove straight to my house arriving at 2:15AM. What a surprise! Then Saturday we woke up and drove to the Lake of The Ozarks were camping and boating fun was to ensue. When we got there, we found nothing but an abondoned campsite. Assuming that because it was daylight and heavily populated that bears hadn't attacked, we (after several garbled cell phone calls) wondered around until we found the marina where the rest of the crew greeted us on the boat. So we did some boating and ate lunch on the outskirts of Party Cove. Then as Gabbi, Scott, and Joe were going to ride on an inflatable raft towed by the boat, the boat died and we had to limp back to shore. That put everyone in a crappy mood.
We had a great dinner and sat around drinking. Eventually we went to bed. But because Joe and I didn't get to pick our tent's site, the rockiest steepest place was chosen for us. And when nature called, we both got trapped in the tent being unable to find the tent flap.
The next morning, we left early and bought some taffy. Joe hung out at my house and watched American Splendor. Then he left but blew a tire just outside of Booneville. Being the amazing girlfriend I am (everyone should be envious of Joe), I rescued him, bought him a new tire and a soda and then took him back to his car. Then I slept some more. I guess it should be noted that Joe spent half an hour on the side of th road calling me but I didn't hear my phone ring most of those times because I was asleep with my head in my fan.
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 8/7/11.]
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