More Reasons

Why I'm incredibly lucky to have my husband, G, and best pony Bridget in my life. Also, a day in which I pretty much fail at being an adult.

Plan A this week was for G, Bridget and I to travel down to the south coast. I was going to EC's for a week of boot camp, followed by a show next weekend and new pony pickup. G was coming along for some vacation and to meet the new girl.

This blog post brought to you by peaceful, zen, local scenery pictures. Because I really need to chill the f out this week ;)

Then, yesterday, G had his vacation cancelled because his work is weird like that. Honestly,  I didn' t handle that news that well. I went from "Yay, fun week ahead!" to "But I can't do it all on my own!!!" (insert embarrassing tears here) in about half a second. I mean, logically I know I am a strong independent woman and all that and it will stil be fun, but yeah, emotionally I threw myself a little pity party because G is my best friend, and I really wanted him to be there for our show and to meet our new pony with me.

Zen battleships ;)

So, there may have been a couple more tears Sunday morning, and I might have kind of dragged my butt around a little and I might have made us run a teensy bit late for the ferry. (In my defense, first time ever...of the two of us I'm always the one who's organized and on time - and I never cry?! What a weird day)

So, we got to the barn and then Bridget might have been "Hey crazy lady, I'm not going for a ride on your drama train with you" and first the first time ever, opted out of loading on the trailer. But then, because she is Bridget, she was like "Fine. You're crazy today but we are besties and we always go to fun places and you feed me so I will hop in this trailer before we are really, definitely not making the ferry late." Thank you, Bridget!

Sunshiney Bridget

Me, on the ferry: "Hey G, I have a weird feeling about the trailer. I know we checked the lights, doors, hitch, etc, but did we check the tires? We were in such a rush....and its not our trailer."

G: (teasing) "Way to go, now you've jinxed us!"

Me: "I'm sorry I'm being weird about this, but I'm feeling strangely anxious about it."

G: "We'll stop at the next gas station and check the tires if you want."

Pull into the gas station, I go inside, come back out and the look on G's face is not good. B also looks moderately interested, which in the absence of treats, obviously means something Not Good is happening. I guess G went to put air in one of the tires and the valve stem on the tire snapped. So, yeah..the tire is rapidly deflating and making hissy tire noises. I covertly look at the other tires and note the valve on one other definitely has a crack too. Cue sick feeling in my stomach, because we're an hour from anywhere on a Sunday, with a best pony in the trailer, and although I said the tire iron, etc was in the truck, I might have actually forgotten to verify that.

Lake with a rainbow

Because G is a responsible adult, he has roadside assistance, and because we were lucky, there was a repair guy 10 min away. Yes, we can change a tire ourselves,and yes, the roadside kit was where it's supposed to be in the truck (no thanks to me, ughhh I was embarrassingly bad at adulting today:( ), but I really wanted some peace of mind over the state of the other tires too.

Cue tire change, and me thanking the universe for best pony ever, who quietly stayed eating hay in the trailer as tow truck guy jacked it up and used loud air tools on it.

Repair guy (basically) "well you should make it to your destination. Worst case, you can drive on 3 tires. Worst, worse case, that seems like a good horse, so you can always ride the rest of the way :)" Ughhh, no, don't tell me that, too soon, not feeling the funny.

Ocean with a rainbow

So the next 60min were spent with me staring silently and obsessively in the rearview watching trailer tires...fun times, lol. We made it to EC's just fine, G made it back home in time for work, and B settled in to her old paddock like she'd never left.

So, in short...G is basically best ever for offering to come with for the day, even though he had to go back up to work and can't stay. Also, he rocks for having 24hr roadside assistance :) Also super bonus points because I wasn't overly fun to deal with and yet he still willingly got in a truck for 4 hours with me.

Coach EC is taking the trailer to the tire place tomorrow morning because I have to work (Yet another awesome person in my life!) Fingers crossed so hard it gets a clean bill of health!

More zen beach time

And, I can't end without a quick Ginger update. She was SO excited to see Bridget again, it was so sweet. I put Bridget in her paddock and was walking back when it became apparent Ginger was even more excited to see me! All the good feelings, because I am always so happy to see her too :)

Whew, all that, and we haven't even started riding boot camp yet. Bring it on, because I'm strong and tough and I've got this...right?;) I have lessons scheduled Tues and Thursday at EC's, and then Friday at the show.

***Final, Final update for the day: New pony loaded on the trailer this afternoon to start her journey here. Eek, so exciting! I've got so many emotions right now!***

Forest trail zen