Horseback riding

The two girls have been doing horseback riding lessons since the fall.  They are enjoying it although Karina likes it a lot more because it involves animals and there is nothing she likes more than spending time with animals.

They ride for about an hour each and a friend of ours teaches them about form and posting and dressage.

Here is Karina walking her horse in a circle on the lead line.  

Meanwhile, Eliana is starting to get her horse ready.  The blanket needs to come off and the saddle needs to be put on.

Eliana is brushing her horses back.  I'm sure that feels good for the horse!

 They are learning various things that are done in a dressage because later on, they had a dressage competition.  This is where they have to learn a routine and get the horse to walk and trot in a certain pre-set pattern.  This is recorded and they are judged on how well they did.

Afterwards, Karina gets all the tack off of the horse she rode.

And gets him back in his stall.

Eliana's turn!

She also needs to learn the dressage routine.

Here are their dressage tests.  They get video recorded and then we sent in the video.  

They both did really well and came back with super high scores!