Utah Horse Expo 2008...Hello allergies. My mom wanted to have another grandkid outing with the four "big" grand kiddies. She needed a little extra help just to keep them in line with the crowd, so I went along for the fun. Luckily, Papi so kindly watched Jacob ALL day long! Thanks dad. This has been a yearly event for my mom and the grandkids for the past two years. I attempted to attend last year, but do to my ridiculous allergies I had less than a fun time. But since I needed to assist my mom and to allow my daughter to have a great experience, I decided to brave the hay and horses. It turned out to be manageable. Some of our favorite highlights of the day...
Paints, fox trotters, stallions… we enjoyed the “Espanol” horse (not sure on the spelling?), it was beautiful with a long flowing tail. It was amazing. The Fresian horse…this was really stunning, large in stature, very majestic. This is really hard to try and describe with out my pamphlet to help me spell or describe what I saw…I really know absolutely nothing about horses, but thankfully my mother who owned a horse growing up and LOVES them taught me and answered all of my questions. 
We then went to lunch at Rock Creek Pizza in Riverton. It was quite the experience. If any of you want to have great customer service go there. They “comped” our salad bar because they forgot to ring it up, re-baked our half raw pizza with an brand new one (even though the grandkids could care less about it being doughy!), we made a huge mess, and last but not least on our way out we decided to “help” clean up our own table. Alayna was carrying the glass red pepper shaker when right in front of the same worker who had assisted us with our previous problems. I accidentally tripped her! The glass shaker shattered across the floor, and a HUGE pile of red pepper spilled every where. I simply looked over to the super nice teenage boy and said, “That was us! Sorry...” He said with a huge smile, “Don’t worry I’ll take care of it!” I’m sure he was thinking… “Please leave before anything else happens!” Oh, the joys of attempting fun outings with children! We returned to the horse shows to see a few more routines. One that I must mention was the Vaulting…I have never in my whole life seen anything like this or even new it existed. It is seriously doing gymnastics on a horse! Yeah, standing, dancing, balancing on one leg, swirling, etc. It really is very dangerous but amazing all at once…I forgot to mention the horse is moving in a “trot” in a circle, around and around…Check it out!
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Oh...there it is! weird. Anyway...I am so glad that you had a good time, but very sad that i missed the horseys this year!! Sounds like you had fun, and learned a lot! :)
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