Huey's one-day event

First up: dressage. A little resistance in canter (let's go jump some fences, mom!) and walk but overall very nice.



Next: stadium. A clear round at about 75 mph. Camilla is a very brave woman.



Finally: cross country. Some trouble at the ditch (not shown) but Huey sailed over everything else. Again, he does not dilly-dally.

First stop: Dubai

Well, haven't I just been the world's worst blogger lately? Not sure what's wrong with me. I even have lots of stuff to post! My mother took me on a trip to Mauritius in late March to visit my brother and his family (including my two adorable nieces and a brand-new baby nephew!). We were there for about ten days (it takes about two days to get there). On the way over we stopped over to sleep in Dubai, and we had a few hours in the evening to venture out and about.



The tallest building and dancing fountains turned out to be just a few blocks away. The plaza where the fountains were was teeming with people from all over the world. Dubai is practically paved with money. It's also the cleanest city I've ever been to. We felt very safe as we walked around. The dancing fountains put the Bellagio's to shame. The video doesn't do them justice. The jets of water shoot incredibly high into the air. We watched the fountains during several songs, all in Arabic, and then . . .



MJ is big everywhere.

Tomorrow I'm off to Corvallis to watch Camilla and Baby Huey compete in eventing. It's sort of a mini-event, with all three disciplines in one day. They start off in dressage at 8:30 a.m., so no sleeping in for me. I should have video to post very soon!

Omg! (thud)

I've already had Lola the bassador for more than a year! She's been such a good, easy dog to have that it feels like she has been in the family forever. Her former owner contacted me the other day with the paperwork to get Lola's microchip information transferred to me. I asked him if, by any chance, he had puppy pictures of Lola that he could share with me. He followed up the next day, and it was total cute overload. Lola was an incredibly adorable puppy! Just look!

Canter lengthenings on Huey

Huey in collected canter

Here are Huey and me working on collected canter in a lesson a couple weeks ago. He's never going to have spectacular gaits, but I like how he looks here. I have to walk a fine line between playing with his mouth enough to keep him loose but not so much that he drops his poll and wither.