Swimming in Horses: Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Today was very horsey! 

We were supposed to stay at the house of my Aunt today, but due to some unforeseen events, we ended up staying the day at the Kentucky Horse Park Campground.

This campground is even cooler than normal. It is affiliated with (or maybe part of) the Kentucky Horse Park. We were able to get into the park for reduced fees.

We had a lot of fun at the Horse Park.

First, we saw some of the old racehorses who are now in retirement, but many of whom earned over a million dollars a season in their prime. They are still beautiful horses.

"Hey mom? Those horses look pretty big. Ya SURE they're not going to get me?!?"

This horse, famous though he may be, is not above sticking his tongue out!

Then we went to a show called Horses of the World, where we saw some rare or unique breeds of horses from around the world, ridden by people in costumes of that region of the world.  Some of them did tricks, others just galloped around the arena while a loudspeaker told us more about each horse.

Elegant along with a cute miniature horse!

The miniature horse there is named Big Mike.

We also saw a miniature mare and her filly. They were so cute!

Grrrr!!

There's that smile again!

Elegant with her favorite horse

Is it just me or has Elegant shrunk?

Then we got to ride horseback. The little ones rode 

ponies, the older ones were on full-sized horses.

Exploring some barns concluded our time in the park.

Giddyup!

Then we decided to go swimming.

Kentucky is cool. There’s a double meaning in that. It is fun and awesome, but it is also coldish.

This was the coldest weather we've encountered. It doesn’t really get cold in many of the other places we’ve been (at least in July); it just gets humid. Even when it’s raining, it is still warm.  

Not here!

Mom and Elegant went shopping, taking the motorhome, of course, and the rest of us went to the pool. This was a bigger pool at ten feet deep (but still no diving, sadly). We had fun.

When we got out it was probably around 5:00.

We started to get a little chilly, and that’s when we realized Mom wouldn’t be back for about 2 hours.

By the time she got back, we were thoroughly chilled; especially me, since my ‘swimsuit’ is not made of swimsuit material and doesn’t dry very well. I got really cold.

Unfortunately, I got so chilled that I came down with a bad cold.  So I am pretty much miserable.

On that cheerful note, farewell for now!