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The Event Derby!
So today at Brown Ledge Camp was The Event Derby! It was a one-day event with a dressage phase and a combined stadium and cross-country phase. Yesterday there were dressage and cross-country clinics, and today was the competition. Yesterday was absolutely nutty; two horses pulled shoes and one went lame, so we had to find replacement mounts for ( Read more... ) -
Costa Rica - Manuel Antonio to Tortuguero
Yesterday had some good moments, but overall there was way too much bus time! We got up early to visit Manuel Antonio National Park. We were supposed to go on Monday, but it's closed Mondays, so instead of spending all day there we squeezed it in in the morning., We walked in and then split up, most of the group staying with Edgar for a short hike ( Read more... ) -
Costa Rica - Punta Leona
Today was absolutely wonderful. After breakfast we headed to the beach, a beautiful white sand beach with good waves. Andrea and I rented boogie boards and spent hours in the water, boogieboarding and just floating on the waves enjoying ourselves. There were also some tidepools to explore, and we spent some time relaxing on the beach reading. ( Read more... ) -
Costa Rica - Monteverde and Carara
Yesterday was a very full day. We started out by taking a short hike at the Santa Elena Cloud Forest Preserve. It was not cloudy that day, but clear and sunny. The forest has not been protected for very long, so there weren't many old trees, but everything is covered in moss and there are tons of epiphytes or "air plants", including plenty of ( Read more... ) -
Costa Rica - Monteverde
Last night was too cloudy to see any "fireworks" from the volcano, so we didn't go. We just went to bed early. In the morning we piled onto the bus to head to Monteverde. The drive was beautiful. As we crossed the continental divide it became more pastoral, and then we entered a major area for coffee growing. Costa Rica provides 70% of the world's ( Read more... ) -
Costa Rica - Arenal
Costa Rica! What a trip so far. We left Cleveland on Monday morning and flew through Houston, where we had a stopover and ate lunch. The beginning of the end! On the flight from Houston to Liberia my stomach started to feel a bit upset. It got worse as the flight went on, and by the time we reached our hotel outside of Liberia near Playas del Coco ( Read more... ) -
Time to feel sorry for myself in public
I was just thinking today; I should be excited to be less than a month away from returning to my boy and never having to leave him again.
Instead, I'm less than a month away from an uncertain and unpromising future, and I'm terrified.
Can I please be 19 again? -
just one more reason to throw in the towel
It's a Glac-Sure Thing
World's glaciers melting rapidly, report says
The world's glaciers are melting quite rapidly and will likely cause all sorts of environmental problems, according to data from the World Glacier Monitoring Service. The WGMS tracks the health of 30 "reference" glaciers throughout the world and has said that their rate of melt has ( Read more... ) -
In the interest of not saying this twenty million times...
So I don't want to explain this repeatedly when I get back to school, so I thought I'd just throw the whole explanation out there into LiveJournal-and-Facebook-land for everyone to absorb at their leisure ( Read more... ) -
major communication issues
Val is supposed to be my comp stadium horse, but I really wanted him to go into Eventing 1 BECAUSE:
- most of the riders in that class are better than I am on the flat
- Julie is a very patient, correct trainer (unlike Bud, who is fun to be around but not my favorite trainer in the world)
- it would help me out to know that he was ridden WELL, and ( Read more... )