Getting better

What a way to end the week!  And to top it all off, I'm trying another excellent secret drink from Starbucks:)  If you like the European spread Nutella, you are bound to love this drink. some baristas might not know of the drink nutella so you should be prepared to tell them how to make this scrumptious treat. It is a cafe misto (1/2 coffee 1/2 steam milk) with hazelnut and chocolate syrup and topped with a drizzle of caramel. It is absolutely amazing! Now, on to the week's events.

The week started off with just jogging on the track because it had rained a lot and the track was too sloppy for us to gallop.  Although I was a little disappointed we couldn't gallop, everything went well.  On Tuesday, I had a decent ride, but it could have ended badly. As we were jogging around the track and approached the open gap where we enter the track, Yankee (the green filly that dropped me), suddenly started bucking and trying to exit the track. But I hung on for the 3 second ride and was able to maintain my cool, get her back under control, and then correct her for the mistake she made. The rest of the ride went quite well. That evening, I came home from work not feeling the greatest. A couple hours later I was a food spewing machine. I continued to spew through the night and into the next morning.  Sadly, I had to take the day off and cancel work at Steak-n-Shake.  I returned to the barn on Thursday raring to go and growing impatient to get back on the track. I was riding Marble that day (one of the horses I'm taking care of). As we trotted around the track and then started our gallop, everything was going smoothly until he started to pick up the pace. I tried to hold him back but I was no match for him.  He took off with me, but fortunately I was able to pull him up where I was supposed to and didn't need the outrider. Friday, I was back on Yankee and had an AWESOME ride.  She didn't try anything stupid such as halting abruptly or jumping the gamp. We had a great gallop and it was a SUPER way to end the week! 

Have a great week and treat yourself to a star bucks coffee; it is well worth it:)

 

Jesse