Our weekend road trip to watch Granddaughter #1 ride a horse was fun, certainly something outside of our regular routine.
We were on the road by 4:45 Saturday morning. It was a 4-hour drive. We followed our daughter-in-law and Granddaughters 2, 3, and 4 to Bowling Green. Granddaughter #1 came from college with her equestrian club.
Earlier in the week, #1 discovered that she needed chaps to dress properly for the event. She ordered some online and they arrived in time but were a tad too small. We stuffed her in them, anyway. After Saturday's event was over, we learned that a strap - one that holds the chaps together - had broken. Since it was a 2-day event and #1 would need the chaps again the next day, I decided that I would try to fix them.
We went to a hobby store and bought leather needles, hand-quilting thread, and a thimble. The chaps are black; the store did not have black quilting thread, but I had a black Sharpie in my bag and figured I could disguise the repair with it. It took a bit of elbow grease, but I sewed (and glued) the strap back on and colored the thread with the Sharpie so that the repair was invisible.
The chaps held together for Sunday's event. When it was #1's turn to ride, we stuffed her into them again, and she won her first ribbon for horsemanship.
We pulled in our driveway at 6 p.m. Sunday. After having sat all weekend long, either in the truck or on the hard, dust-covered bleachers in the arena, and having climbed those bleachers multiple times in pursuit of an energetic 2-year-old, we both groaned in pain as we slid out of the truck.
It was a fun and interesting weekend. The Husband grew up with horses, and he knew a little bit about riding etiquette, but I did not, and so I learned something. And getting to hang out with The Granddaughters all weekend was fun.
I think there's another event coming up this weekend, one that's maybe only 2 hours away. We will probably go to that one, too, in case another strap breaks. ;)
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