First river ride of the year......

Nearly 20 degrees out there today so we took the kids and horses down to the river. Rode over to Tanya's with my small noisy burden in front of the saddle, she kept wanting to trot and worked out that Gandalf will trot just from a click of the tongue, had to tell her to stop it!!!

As we rode past the Percheron breeder's farm he was out with a couple of his mares so we stopped for a chat.

This is not as simple as it sounds, him being deaf as a post and needing to lip read!! And he's not kneeling down in that pic, he really is that short.......

Then it was on to Tanya's where the SNO decided she wanted to ride Fina instead, which the NNP took remarkably well really, especially as she and her sister immediately started arguing check out Ali's expression, the SNO is being a tart for the camera......

We found a cool path down to the water and of course the girls (and the dog) got wet......

Even Gandalf had a splash in the water.......

We had a nice picnic (Gandalf was very interested in that!)

Then it was back to the campsite for a spot of jumping then we turned the horses out so they had a roll, a hooley and Ches & G started playing!

For some reason, it's always the boys that play like this, he never does with Sky and Fina......