This weekend had another hike up to Yanatios to see Dona Lucas. This time with 4 new teachers. We told her that we would be back up in 3 weeks. Hopefully that will work out. I find it incredibly refreshing to go up there.
Sunday, we went on a horse tour up to another aldea for Sarah Harrington's 30th birthday. This was a couple of first for me. I haven't been on a horse tour and I haven't been to this aldea. The only downside was that my camera died within 5 minutes of us starting out.
When I first got on my horse, I was worthless. My horse only moved when the guide, Enrique, told it to. Every time Enrique was away helping someone else, my horse, Lito, would stop or slow down again. I got to chat with Enrique a bit in Spanish, which was fun. He asked if we knew any songs, but I don't know any sing-alongs in Spanish.
On the way back down, I was good at directing my horse, and having him listen, and slowing him down (since it was downhill). Enrique was adamant about the importance of going slow on the downhill, especially for those of us who hadn't known what we were doing when we got started. When we got back to flat, we started testing going faster. After I'd been experimenting
some, and even galloped a few steps, he asked if I wanted to gallop again and I did and we went a little ways like that. It was a lot of fun. The whole extravaganza was less than $10.
Enrique also says they're going to be starting up a school for riding in November. He hasn't worked out logistics or pricing, but he'll come up to Mayatan to talk to us about it later in October. I can see
being interesting and so are 4 or 5 other teachers. It might actually be cheap enough here for it to be worth it to me, but we'll see.
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