What we did on Saturday!

Kyle and I went to a winter festival on Saturday. The only reason I went? To go on the horse drawn sleigh ride of course! These two beautiful boys are Wooody and Charles. 18 hh, 2200 lbs and amazingly friendly percherons:) It was my first horse drawn sleigh ride. I have been on carriages and wagons before, but not a sleigh. We were given a big fuzzy blanket to cuddle under and it was just an amazing time.

I have an afinity to percherons. The summer of my junior year of college, I spent the summer as a bed maker at a bed & breakfast on Mackinac Island. If you have never been there, you should visit sometime. It is a horse lovers dream. It's an island inbetween the lower and upper penninsula of Michigan and there are no motorized vehicles allowed on the island, only bikes and horses. Everything is done with horse power from taxis to UPS delivery...it's amazing! Anyway, I also taught lessons to the 4-H kids on the island for the summer and all summer, I rode a percheron/thoroughbred name Sonata. She was an incredibly talented dressage/jumper. My best memories of that summer include riding her for hours around the island until sunset, going swimming with her and playing around on the jump trails on the island. It was such an awesome summer! Ahh memories....