My special guests from far away - I mean REALLY far!

This past weekend I had some really awesome guests from MONGOLIA. One of my guests was my best friend, Julie Veloo, she lives in Mongolia with her husband (they are there for work) and the other two guests were a couple that Julie and her husband have become friends with over the years that they have lived there. These visitors from Mongolia have never been on a holiday, never been on a plane, never left Mongolia and now here they are in Canada having an amazing holiday!..... What I can say though is that they CAN really ride horses!

I have to admit that I was a bit apprehensive about taking out these people who don't really speak any English (thankfully my friend speaks Mongolian) and I was also quite proud to be able to put 5 out of 7 riders on Curlies! The two exceptions were my partner Warren (he was on his NSH) and my other local friend who was taking the picture for us (she was on her own horse).

The pictured riders and horses are (from left to right):

Warren on his NSH



Baagii (he is a REAL horseman!) on *Charm

Saraa (Baagii's wife) on *Serenade

Me on *Tessa

Julie (my best friend) on *Cuervo

Anastasia on *Joe

The highlight of the day though, was Baagii asked if he could gallop *Charm and I said sure, so we went to the top of a hill and he came galloping up after us - he was standing up to gallop! (Mongolian style!) on my beautiful Curly horse *Charm! It was amazing and I sure wish that I had managed to get a photo of this, but I will forever have the memory of it!

 

Here are a few more photos from the ride - it was a special and exceptional experience for me to play host to these really neat people.

 

Finally, Saraa insisted that Warren and I try on their Dells (sorry for the likely mis-spell on this!), so Warren and I played dress-up.  Warren got to also try on Baagii's "very' cool hat - wow was that a neat hat!  Left to right are: Julie, Saraa, me, Warren, Baagii.

 

 

Shelly

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