Dia 5 - Turno 1 - Campamento Ecuestre

Hi, my name is Sonia, this is my first year coming to camp, I am coming from New Jersey (USA) and so far it´s been very fun with all the horses and people. The experience is very different from what I am used to but I got to try a lot of new things I´ve never done before.

Yesterday in the morning we went to the endurance (raid) trouogh the Granada countryside with a group. I was riding Buleria who was really good during the entire endurance. We trotted and cantered up ad down the hills and through the small trees. At the same time we got to the the entire city of Granda from above, which was very beautiful. We got to a small town  and cantered through the streets with the horses. Throughout the entire endurance the group was throwing almonds at each other which was entertaining.

After we came back from the endurance, we washed all the horses that were sweating like crazy since it was so hot.

After we rested, we took out two young horses who were Hawainano  and Gloria who, for the fisrt time, we put saddles on them and worked them for a half hour or so on the lunge. Gloria who is younger did very well and Hawaiano who is older seemed to be uncomfortable but in the end he also did very well and Abraham went on the top of Hawaiano on the saddle and rode him and it was very impressive beacuase it was the first time and he did well.

We got into the pool and talked. Laura convinced Maria to participate in a sidesaddle show. Everything was “peaceful” until Abraham got in the pool and everyone got wet and then it turned into a splash war or something.

We started to get the horses ready and put on our riding clothes for the “carrera de cintas”.  Which basically was a contest were you had to canter towards a bunch of ribbons that were hung up high on a string and try to stick the stick that you´re holding through the small hole that was attached t the ribbon. The person who got the most ribbos was the winner. I rode Albaycin. I never was able to catch a ribbon which was frustrating but  it was still really fun. My buddie/partener, Ana got a ribboon though. That contest was probably my favorite one we did.

After riding some of us went to the kitchen to make pizzas. We ended up making 8 pizzas and one pizza was shaped like a head of a horse.

After we ate we were told that  we were going to go for a walk,  but everyone knew  it was going to be the “night of terror”.  The first thing that freaked us out was a sketchy car that was parked in the dark that suddenly turned on. Everyone ran way real fast. Then we got to some caves were a guy who came out of nowhere and thats when everyone started to scream, cry, run around, and grab people/shirts/arms etc. There was another guy inside the cave who was surrounded by candles. We kept walking and those two guys continued to follow us and pop up out of nowhere the entire time we walked back too the camp. But when they snatched Chispa,  that´s when they chased after the guy. We finally got back to the camp...some a lil traumatized.

We got into our tents and slept.