Kaitlyn finally had her first horseback riding lesson on Friday. She was so excited and it was quite an adventure. I have to fill you in on the days before weather wise. It had not snowed for about 4 days and the temperature had been warming up, got up to 32 on Friday. But by about 5:00 the wind started picking up. And when that wind comes off the lake it is pretty scary. Being down in our little haven surrounded by trees I didn't realize how bad the wind had gotten. Matt left to go meet Jim and Zach in town for dinner and not long after us girls left to take Kaitlyn to riding lessons. By the time we got up to the highway I was a bit nervous. The wind was blowing the snow so hard that it would create "white outs". At one point I was so scared because I couldn't see a thing and when I came out on the other side of the blowing snow I was in the left lane. We safely got the the stables and I really wanted to turn around and go home but I just couldn't do that to Kaitlyn. I called Matt and he showed up about 45 minutes later to hang out with us and take us back home after.
So lessons began. They are about 2 hours long by the time you tack up, have the lesson and tack down. After we got the horses tacked up we had to walk to the indoor arena. That was another adventure of walking through blowing snow. Kaitlyn did awesome controlling her horse and keeping him calm as we walked along.
The lessons were great and I got some videos so you can see what Kaitlyn did during her lessons. We are so proud of her and her teacher is such a wonderful gal who works so well with the kids. She is ready for her next lesson this week. Kaitlyn was able to brush her horse, by the way he name is Twinkie, pick the hooves, saddle and bridle him.
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