The adventures at 4-H Horse Camp!!!

How many grandmas are lucky enough to get to go to Horse Camp?? Kristi and I decided to split the time at camp and I got to go with Carmryn the first day. The camping spot was at the beginning of the "Wagon Wheel" trail.

We took the horses and the trailer up on Thursday afternoon (July 16th). Jed, Kristi, Camryn and I all set up camp. Jed and Kristi went back to town and left Camryn and I to have many adventures! First of all, we were told by Curtis and Keri Pugh that they had seen a mother bear and her two cubs very close to our camp. Keri had come upon them when she was out on a walk. It was a little scary for her as mother bears are very protective of their cubs and can be dangerous. She picked up some big rocks in each hand and went behind a tree. After Curtis came, they watched the mother bear kill a baby fawn:(

After riding the horses and eating dinner, everyone enjoyed roasting marshmallows on the fire.

And then there was a lot of singing and playing games until about midnight................

.....which made it hard to wake up on Friday morning.

After breakfast everyone saddled up for a long horse ride on the trails on Blue Mountain. Camryn was all ready to go..........but I realized I had forgotten my hat on the horse trailer. I rode Cody over to get it and just as I reached for it and put it on my head Cody decided to start bucking for some reason.

The bad news was that the hat ended up on the ground.....the good news was that I didn't!!

I decided I didn't need the hat after all. It could just stay there.

Out on the trail!

We stopped for lunch.

After about a five hour ride, we got back to camp uninjured and tired. Cody had been fidgety and prancing the whole day. He worked 10 times as hard as he needed to and had sweat pouring off of him at all times. He walked sideways a lot of the time and when we came to bridges that crossed over streams it became a little tricky because he didn't fit on the bridge sideways. But overall, the ride was fun. We were on trails on the mountain. We had seen deer and other wildlife.

Some of the kids decided they were hot and needed to cool off. They thought the horse trough looked inviting.

They had to scoot over a little bit when the horses came to get a drink!

Kristi came that afternoon for her turn at camp. Her biggest adventure began in the middle of the night when she heard Cody thrashing around outside. She went out to yell at him and realized that something was wrong. He was on his knees and acting very weird. She went to get help and when they came back he was laying on his side and looked like he was dead!! But he was breathing and got back up soon. They gave him some medicine and he gradually got better. Maybe his hard day had made him sick.....no one knows. He was OK in the morning but needless to say, no one got much sleep. They all went on a short ride and then broke camp and headed home.

Jed and I rode the 4-wheelers from town to the camp spot and helped Kristi and Camryn back to town. Camryn said it was the best weekend of her life!!! Thanks Camryn, for sharing it with grandma!