Reno Celebration, Trail ride, & Kira

I went on vacation! A true, no kids vacation! Well, I DID have to take them on the plane with me to get to Salt Lake and again (kicking and screaming) to come home, but other than that I was kid free for a week! Which is a first for me besides the time I went to help my sister with her new baby, Ayden one year ago.

The purpose of the trip was to have the kids visit my family and the ulterior motive was for me to attend the Parelli Celebration with my sister and her friend Tracy in Reno, NV.

We left for Reno the day after I got there and drove 8 hours. The Celebration was wonderful! Pat played with a Humane Society Rescue horse named Cheyenne. I love watching him play with horses. It is inspiring. His timing is almost perfect!

The celebration also had "savvy spotlights" which are basically regular people studying the program that brought their own horses for Pat to evaluate them. There was so much to learn!

Linda of course rode Remmer with Walter Zettl the dressage master. I was in the retail area looking at Walter's book when I hear a voice in a german accent behind me "That is a very good book!" It was Walter himself. What a sweet, sweet man and an awesome trainer that really knows his discipline and how to achieve it, naturally. I'd love to be able to ride that high of a level someday!

When we got back after 3 fun filled days Kris talked me into going for a trail ride. My trail rides are pretty far and few between. I usually get out twice a year or so. I didn't want to bother her with having to hook up the trailer but she insisted. So we headed out to Rose Canyon which was just so awesome! I rode one of my sister's schooling horses, Cleo. She is such a sweetie.

To top it all off I got to go visit Kira! My sweet, sweet mustang who is now 20 years old! She looks great although she has aged quite a bit since I saw her last. Oh how I miss her. She still nickers at me though, which about made me cry! She loves her home though, and it is truly the lap of horsey luxury!

Here is Cleo and I on the trail in Rose Canyon

Reno! Yeah besides the Celebration, lights and the good food at the brewery we ate at 3 days in a row, Reno doesn't have much happening!
Here are all of us with Walter Zettl. I bought the book (of course who could resist?) and he signed that as well as everything else Kris and Tracy bought too!
Linda and Remmer. My camera didn't work hardly at all in the arena so I didn't get hardly any pictures. They are all very dark!
Kris and I
Linda with Walter
Kris and I on our Trail ride. Kris is riding Sunny.
Grazing the horses after the ride
Kira and I!