Tuesday
In the car by 8am, picked up Hans, Lauren’s farrier, by 8:30 and got to the airport by 10am. Nice and early…my flight isn’t until 6:56pm…thought I’d be able to store my bags, but no, they don’t do that. I’ll have to cart my luggage around the airport all day. Tempting to get a room at the airport hotel, not worth 140 bucks tho. So I’m sitting in the food court area with Krispy Kreme donuts, catching up on my blogs! Nobody is on face book to chat to, or skype…not surprising as it is 3:30am in Australia! There is heaps of shops to look at which I will do once I check my bags, I can do that 4 hours prior to my flight. Until then it’s easier to stay put, apart from the internet I have movies and audio books for entertainment. Will lose a day on the way home…the 27th of October will not exist for me.
I’m looking forward to getting home, it’s been a great adventure, time to go back to the real world.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
25/10/10
Monday
Wow, the puppy and the cat must have missed us a lot…couldn’t go to the bathroom without both of them following me in! They’d run in under the chair before I could shut the door, so I went back out and they came back out, so I’d go back in and they’d come in again, eventually had to get lauren to hang on to them…funny little aminals. It was my last day and I had to get packed and organised, we were leaving at 8am tomorrow morning. Lauren’s farrier, who fly’s over from Canada to do her horses feet, had to be at the airport by 10:30am and it takes a good couple of hours to get there. We went out to dinner for our last night, to theJapanese steakhouse, where I had the filet mignon…mmmmm…and a Bosai Blossom cocktail.
Wow, the puppy and the cat must have missed us a lot…couldn’t go to the bathroom without both of them following me in! They’d run in under the chair before I could shut the door, so I went back out and they came back out, so I’d go back in and they’d come in again, eventually had to get lauren to hang on to them…funny little aminals. It was my last day and I had to get packed and organised, we were leaving at 8am tomorrow morning. Lauren’s farrier, who fly’s over from Canada to do her horses feet, had to be at the airport by 10:30am and it takes a good couple of hours to get there. We went out to dinner for our last night, to theJapanese steakhouse, where I had the filet mignon…mmmmm…and a Bosai Blossom cocktail.
24/10/10
Sunday
Another full day of fun and games. Pat even brought the cutting horse simulator so people could experience how it should feel. It’s a mechanical horse on a track and a cow on a parallel track…will try and insert some video of Lauren riding it. Bought lots of stuff cos there were also Parelli preferred vendors there selling everything from Photonic therapy red lights to stem cell products. Don’t know how I’m going to fit it all into my bags! The event finished up by 4pm and it took a couple of hours for us to load up the horses and head back to the ranch…hopefully this video will work…
Another full day of fun and games. Pat even brought the cutting horse simulator so people could experience how it should feel. It’s a mechanical horse on a track and a cow on a parallel track…will try and insert some video of Lauren riding it. Bought lots of stuff cos there were also Parelli preferred vendors there selling everything from Photonic therapy red lights to stem cell products. Don’t know how I’m going to fit it all into my bags! The event finished up by 4pm and it took a couple of hours for us to load up the horses and head back to the ranch…hopefully this video will work…
23/10/10
Saturday
The day starts a little more relaxed, we didn’t have to be there til 8:30am. The purpose of the Jacksonville Rendezvous is for all the Savvy Club members to gather and do demo’s, spotlights, discuss problems or concerns in small forum groups, compete in levels games and generally socialise, find instructors, watch Pat, Linda and the Mastery Program students in action training their horses.
The day starts a little more relaxed, we didn’t have to be there til 8:30am. The purpose of the Jacksonville Rendezvous is for all the Savvy Club members to gather and do demo’s, spotlights, discuss problems or concerns in small forum groups, compete in levels games and generally socialise, find instructors, watch Pat, Linda and the Mastery Program students in action training their horses.
22/10/10
Friday
Chaos as usual for the first day cos no one really knows what’s going on, it’s usually a ‘fly by the seat of your pants’ kind of thing. We turned up at the hotel last night to discover that the rooms booked for us where upstairs, and there was no lift. Only rooms available on the ground level were smoking rooms- no thanks. So me and Lauren drove around several hotels with me running in each time to ask about accessible rooms…it was about midnight when we finally found one, got to bed about half past and had to be up at 5:30am. Had a team meeting at the venue at 6:30am, the moon was still up and it felt like the middle of the night. I joined the media crew and was tasked with filming the Dream Horses. I should explain that the Dream Horse program is a way for the horses at the ranch to move on, rather than hang around for ever doing the levels and getting sour. The horses can be purchased for $1000 plus a donation to the Parelli Foundation (tax deductable)…Pat’s top Cutting horses require a donation of up to $150,000, lower end horses can be bought for $9000 ($1000 plus $8000 donation).
Chaos as usual for the first day cos no one really knows what’s going on, it’s usually a ‘fly by the seat of your pants’ kind of thing. We turned up at the hotel last night to discover that the rooms booked for us where upstairs, and there was no lift. Only rooms available on the ground level were smoking rooms- no thanks. So me and Lauren drove around several hotels with me running in each time to ask about accessible rooms…it was about midnight when we finally found one, got to bed about half past and had to be up at 5:30am. Had a team meeting at the venue at 6:30am, the moon was still up and it felt like the middle of the night. I joined the media crew and was tasked with filming the Dream Horses. I should explain that the Dream Horse program is a way for the horses at the ranch to move on, rather than hang around for ever doing the levels and getting sour. The horses can be purchased for $1000 plus a donation to the Parelli Foundation (tax deductable)…Pat’s top Cutting horses require a donation of up to $150,000, lower end horses can be bought for $9000 ($1000 plus $8000 donation).
21/10/10
Thursday
Ok, well Tuesday’s plan got thrown out the window and I spent most of yesterday, Wednesday, trying to find out what the new plan was…as it happens, the new plan was for us all to come up to Jacksonville today instead and stay the 3 days. So I’m sitting in Lauren’s van, in Jacksonville, observing lots of exciting stuff going on all around me. We brought 37 horses with us including Casper, Remmer and Magic. Once the phone is charged up I will be on Twitter duty for the day, unless needed for something else. It’s been great to catch up with some of the office team that went to WEG, and meet Savvy Club members from all over! Still have to find out about hotels, can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings…
Ok, well Tuesday’s plan got thrown out the window and I spent most of yesterday, Wednesday, trying to find out what the new plan was…as it happens, the new plan was for us all to come up to Jacksonville today instead and stay the 3 days. So I’m sitting in Lauren’s van, in Jacksonville, observing lots of exciting stuff going on all around me. We brought 37 horses with us including Casper, Remmer and Magic. Once the phone is charged up I will be on Twitter duty for the day, unless needed for something else. It’s been great to catch up with some of the office team that went to WEG, and meet Savvy Club members from all over! Still have to find out about hotels, can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings…
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
14 - 19/10/10
Thursday - Tuesday
Feeling a bit displaced…don’t really have a job to do. Helping out Lauren with some admin., puppy sitting, doing laundry…trialling the new savvy club website Parelli Connect. Went to the supermarket and got some provisions, don’t get down to the lodge much.
This is Lauren's puppy...an Australian Shepherd called Skye...
Woke up in the wee hours of the morning cos I was getting jumped all over…sat up to see the cat had brought a frog to show me and every time the frog jumped, the cat pounced on it, thankfully the frog then hopped off the bed and the cat hopped off after it. Found the frog during the morning hopping across the bathroom floor, so I relocated it so a moist patch of grass under the shed outside.
Got to watch Lauren's dressage lesson with Walter Zettle...
Went to the Japanese Steakhouse again for Brittney’s birthday…teppinyaki style…couldn’t catch zuccini in my mouth…birthday cake was awesome!
Found out the plan for the up coming event…Jacksonville Rendezvous…I will be going up to Jacksonville on Friday, coming back Saturday night, or maybe staying on for Sunday if they need me.
Feeling a bit displaced…don’t really have a job to do. Helping out Lauren with some admin., puppy sitting, doing laundry…trialling the new savvy club website Parelli Connect. Went to the supermarket and got some provisions, don’t get down to the lodge much.
This is Lauren's puppy...an Australian Shepherd called Skye...
Woke up in the wee hours of the morning cos I was getting jumped all over…sat up to see the cat had brought a frog to show me and every time the frog jumped, the cat pounced on it, thankfully the frog then hopped off the bed and the cat hopped off after it. Found the frog during the morning hopping across the bathroom floor, so I relocated it so a moist patch of grass under the shed outside.
Got to watch Lauren's dressage lesson with Walter Zettle...
Went to the Japanese Steakhouse again for Brittney’s birthday…teppinyaki style…couldn’t catch zuccini in my mouth…birthday cake was awesome!
Found out the plan for the up coming event…Jacksonville Rendezvous…I will be going up to Jacksonville on Friday, coming back Saturday night, or maybe staying on for Sunday if they need me.
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