Mom!

Currently my mom is up visiting for about two weeks and it has been amazing while she is here.  Steph and I took the bus up to Melbourne on Friday the 25^th to meet her.  We had an action packed few days in the city where we went to the botanical gardens, explored china town, went to a few amazing dinners, went to a market that was amazingly fun where we had fish and chips and got brightly colored wool socks!  Steph’s mom came in on Saturday and Sunday the four of us took the bus back to Mansfield. 

Mom and I at the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne

We got to show our moms around the lodge and we explored the area with them over the next few days.  It was back to work for Steph and I on Tuesday through Thursday, then on Friday we took our mom’s out for an awesome ride.  Mom came with us to work at camp Howqua one day where she got to meet my favorite little horse, Snowy.  She also got to see us drench (deworm) all of the horses and she got some entertaining video of it. It was freezing cold when we got to work that morning and there was actually frost on the ground.  Poor mom came for cold weather…

When we went for a ride on Sunday,  I put my mom on a nice quiet horse, Jacko.  Jacko doesn’t really like to go faster than a walk, so I thought they would do well together.  Steph rode Bert, a bouncy little arab, Steph’s  mom Gabby rode TC a nice little quarter horse gelding and I rode Query a giant of an Australian stock horse.  On our ride, we had one of us in front of the moms at all times to keep them at a walk while one or two of us went a bit faster and had fun.  Mom did great on the ride!  We had a picnic and relaxed for a while in the middle of the ride and got some great pictures.



Gabby on TC; Steph on Bert; Mom on Jacko; Me on Query



I will update more later, but today is thanksgiving and I have to help with cooking…