Rain Rain Go Away, Is There A Vacay Coming My Way?

I have been so busy. I mean crazy BUSY! I have only been at home to sleep for the last 4 nights, that's it. I had hockey play off games on Wednesday and Thursday and on Friday we loaded up the horses for a horse show. The show was just a local show, and it's about 45 minutes to an hour from home. Since it's not that far, we still drive home to sleep, but we are at the show pretty much almost every waking minute. We only had classes on Saturday and Sunday. But we took the horses to the show grounds on Friday to set up and get the horses worked. What ended up happening is after set up, we waited....and waited......and waited.....and waited......to get into the show arena to school the horses. On top of all the waiting, the weather was NOT in our favor. It rained and rained and rained NONSTOP! Not just a drizzly rain, but a total drenching down pour. And it was COLD. Extremely cold. Maybe 45 degrees as the high. It was miserable. I WAS MISERABLE.

On Saturday, it wasn't supposed to rain so much. Yeah, right. Didn't get so lucky. The weather Gods were not good to us AGAIN! It rained and rained and it was even colder. It was hailing and we had snow mixed with rain. BONE CHILLING COLD. It let up a little bit halfway through the day but it didn't matter. It was still cold. We had to wait for the afternoon classes to start since we didn't have any horses showing in the morning classes, but the morning classes took so long. So we sat around and froze. The afternoon classes finally started around 2:00 p.m. We had been at the show grounds since 6:45 a.m. I think we arrived a little too early. The afternoon classes ran late due to the morning classes running late, so the evening classes didn't start until after 8:00 p.m. We finally left the show grounds a little after 10:00 p.m. 15 hours of cold and misery. Back home for one more night of only 5 hours of sleep. Back up at 5:00 a.m. to get ready for the Sunday morning classes. There were a lot of class scratches so they moved through them pretty quickly and we packed and loaded the horses up, then headed home around noon. I came home, took a nap and woke up 6 HOURS later. Ya think I was a little tired?

We have another rain storm moving in, and it is going to be ANOTHER record breaking rain fall. We have been breaking records left and right with rain. The river flooded AGAIN, we have had more floods in this one year then we have in the last 8 years put together. And more rain on the way....... I mean really, it has to stop at some point, right?

With all the misery of the last week, I am excited to make an announcement that I will be taking a vacation! Gasp! Did I say vacation? ME? Go on a vacation? When does THAT ever happen? Little ole me, who works her butt off EVERY. SINGLE. DAY is going to get some R and R? Am I dreaming? I must be dreaming! Am I going to a place where the sun actually SHINES? Where the big, yellow ball in the sky is visible to my naked eye? Where the temperature actually gets ABOVE 85 degrees? Where I may finally get some much needed color to this white, white skin of mine? Where I get to lounge around by a pool, read a book with a drink in my hand? Where I get to be on the back of a horse again? Where I actually get to wear shorts, tank tops and flip flops? And where I actually must get on a PLANE and fly away to this location? Is it real? YES IT IS!

So I am saying farewell to the gray skies, the non stop rain, the mud, the cold and to the misery of the last 5 months! Goodbye rain, HELLO SUN~ I can't wait to meet you again! It has been WAY too long!

And when I get back, I will have stories to share and a giveaway to announce!