Horseback Riding – Yeeeehaw!

So last Saturday a friend of mine had her 17th birthday…Being a friend of hers and the family, I finally decided to come along and join in the celebration – Horseback Riding! This is all on the same day that she had to go for 5 stitches in her finger…but that’s another story. If you know me, you know that I have NEVER been on a horse before! I’ve never lived on a farm, never milked a cow, and never ridden a horse. Never even touched one before saturday.

(Everything perfect except I forgot to bring my hat that day!)

And if you’re like me, take the opportunity!!! It’s awesome! 🙂 For about ¥50 I got to ride for over an hour. For you Americans, that’s less than US$7! Now never having been on a horse before, I expected it would be a kind of boring slow trip with someone holding the reigns the whole time.


Not so! Between 40-50% of the time we were galloping! Oh yeah! And there was no one telling me what to do (I wouldn’t have understood anyway). No one holding the reigns but me. Whew! Yeehaw! A fabulous time! I’d do it again in a heartbeat. I could do without the trotting though – that speed seems designed to do nothing but bruise you…Speaking of which, I think after 5 days of recovery that all the aches and pains are nearly gone now. 🙂