Cowboy Tom

We had fun riding horses at the Page reunion, they were roughly 30 minute rides around the mountain, on very sedate horses that always stayed in a certain order… parked themselves at the hitching post when we got back, and occasionally needed a kick to get them going faster. They were supposed to walk head to tail practically and if ever we got a whole horselength (or heaven forbid, 2) of space between us they guides would shout out “Kick ‘Tarzan'” or whatever horse you were on, until you caught back up. It was fun, made me want a horse, just so I could ride a little more, do some more trotting maybe… and not have to wear a life-jacket (no joke folks!) and riding helmet just to walk! Funny thing though, when you go to ride, they do “orientation” tell you the rules etc. then say “pick a horse and wait for a guide to mount up! Well, they never say NOT to ride any certain horses, so Tom just assumed, nobody’s going for a certain horse he can ride it, right? He decided to climb on one of the smallest horses, thinking that’d be safest… he just mounts right up, unhooks her lead from the fence and is sitting there waiting to start. All of a sudden the girl guide goes “GET off of Rosie! Hook her back up! Quick! ” She’s quietly panicking … ” So Tom hurries and gets down, then the guides all laugh at him and tell him she’s a mustang and he’d have quite the ride if he stayed on her! They couldn’t believe how calm she was while he was on her. One of them rode her on the trail and was showing Tom the whole time the things she likes to do, spin in circles, balk… spin some more. It was funny- mighta been funnier to see him try to ride her though….. 🙂 In this pic he’s riding behind his uncle Henry. Like our gettup?

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