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October 31, 2004
Perfect autumn day
It was a gorgeous day today and instead of going to Manhattan as I had originally planned, I managed to convince Adam to go horseback riding at the park near us. I had been wanting to go horseback riding for a while and, at the same time, Adam and I had talked about going to the park by us for a while and after hearing that the park had a stable and seeing the beautiful weather today, I knew we had no excuse not to go! Remarkably, the stable was only a hop, skip, and a jump away from our apartment and being there almost made you forget you were in New York City. Neither of us had been horseback riding since we were kids so we were both a little apprehensive. We waited patiently for our horses, hopped on, and almost immediately, my horse walked over to the building across the street to munch on some weeds. Perhaps it was my mistake for not preventing him from doing so, perhaps he was just hungry or tired and didn't want to go on another walk through the woods, perhaps I was just too inexperienced at riding, or perhaps it was a little of all of the above but my horse would just not listen to me the entire ride. I ended up lagging behind all everyone else and whenever I would do what I could to get my horse to catch up, it would just ignore me and only occasionally break into a trot but just randomly so. At one point, when I was trying to get the horse to catch up, it just stopped for a moment, in the middle of a clearing, as if to drive home the point that it could do whatever it wanted to do. Horse issues aside, it was a nice experience--we took the bridle path through the woods in this park and the canopy and fall leaves were lovely. Wish I had some photos to share--hopefully, I'll either be getting a new digital camera or a camera phone around the holidays!
Posted by Jennifer at October 31, 2004 04:42 PM