The riding today was great, as I was starting to really get the hang of 2-point while trotting. I think that next week we are going to go even faster and get up to the cantor. I’m really excited as this is showing that I’m understanding how things work with the horse, and my posture is really good. Amanda is a great teacher and I’m glad that she is the one showing me how to ride. I think they assigned her to me as they suspected I’d be hard to teach, but since I’m a fast learner we are going really quickly through the lessons. I need to watch some videos to get a better idea of the proper stances, but besides that it is going great!
Stephanie and I hiked mission peak today, and it was really nice out.
The views from the top were phenomenal, but there was a lot of smog across the bay.
Stephanie was having trouble due to allergies and being really tired.
Sunday morning bright and early I went to meet up with Nima and Caryn at Stanford to play some squash. We both got there at 8:40, so we threw the frisbee around until the facilities opened at 9am. After they opened we played 3 way squash until 10:30.
After squash I called my parents and talked to them for about 20 minutes.
Then Caryn, Nima, and I went to meet Steph and Nick at the California Avenue Farmer’s Market. I got my regular Samosa and ended up having lunch there with the amazing Lamb Curry Wrap. After that Nima and Caryn joined me at Shoreline Lake for a relaxing talk and sit. We just sat by the bay most of the time and talked about life. If they end up moving close I’ll have to take them out sailing on the lake.
After that I went to home and played some more Minecraft with Nick. Then, I left to join Stephanie for some horseback riding. Smoothy was being good and I got some 2 point and trotting in. Stephanie was having a really hard time getting Calypso to do anything and Calypso even reared up on Steph once.
We went to hang out at beachhead, then joined them for dinner at Tofu House, where I got the number 1. I’d like to go to Tofu House more often as it was delicious and not that fatty, just really salty. After that we sat down and watched My Cousin Vinny, which is a really awkward but good movie.
Today Nick, Steph, and I went to Big Basin state park for a 10 mile hike along the Berry Creek Falls Trail.
The hike was gorgeous and I reallu enjoyed it. The trees are so massive and the burned out hollows ibt the middle of the trees is pretty impressive also.
There were a ton of banana slugs. Steph was super exited fir the first few but they were so frequent that she soon stopped pointing them out.
The falls themselves were very pretty and unique. There were three big sets of falls.
We had lunch at the first set of falls.
The second set of falls had a slippery path that wound down the top to the bottom. It was a little frightening but not too bad.
The Berry Creej Falls was the last large waterfall. It was just slightly the largest but I thought the first set was the prettiest.
At the end of the 10 mile loop were the biggest trees. The one above has a full sized tree coming off the trunk halfway up and it looks like a branch up against the main trunk.
Steph and I went to hookah nights and got the pineapple with mango
I got pretty good at blowing smoke rings. I was able to get a few small ones through the big ones.
We went to the farmer’s market this morning, and then I went back to have some of that delicious food for lunch. I then just hung out a good bit until horseback riding at 4. After that we went to hangout with Candice and Brian. I just sat there since Brian and Tina were already involved in a decently complicated game. We went from there to dinner at Oren’s Hummus. Oren’s is always tasty and I really enjoy the family style food. I think that has become a theme of the places I really like. They are family style and encourage conversation and sharing.
We went to mars bar to celebrate and morn.
We started with cacao butter and then added in some cacao powder and honey. For flavor we added some cayanne and curry powder
the fibished product was very good
The horseback riding today was great. I was able to post and learned two point.
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