Update: If you haven't yet, you should enter Hillary's contest! She's giving away three Rolex volunteer shirts, which is pretty awesome :)
Today was a fabulous day. The weather held out for us and only did some light sprinkling, I got Hawley Bennet Awad's and Buck Davidson's autographs, went shopping, and got to spend some time with Hillary and my parents :) I also took 500+ pictures, which I narrowed down to 150 to share with you, though this is only the first half! Like Hill said in
her post, the 20 rides after the lunch break didn't go so hot, with only 10 of 20 finishing the course. In contrast, 18 of the 21 morning starters finished and had some extremely successful and easy runs. The biggest disappointments of the day for me were William Fox Pitt and Chilli Morning retiring on course and Allie Knowles, reppin' the KY, getting eliminated after 2 refusals :( I was dying to see WFP's gorgeous stallion, who was in 1st place after dressage, go around XC, but they retired before he got to where I was stationed with my camera... BOO. However, I did get to see a horse go from the same stud farm as Limerick, Ringwood Mississippi (rider: Austin O'Connor), which was beyond cool! I got some pictures of them, but they'll be in the next post.
Of course, now I'll have to tell you about the goods I snagged and the trailers I perused ;) My dad was seriously interested in walking through the various trailers on display and kept exclaiming how beautiful they were, all of which I took as a definite sign that we're getting one after school is over for the year!!!! Now, onto the loot:
