Family Horse Back Riding
October 1, 2008
Our adventure for September was to go horseback riding. You might wonder how we did this, since as far as I know they do not make horse seats for little kids to ride in the back.
The challenge was to make sure our 3 year old got a chance to ride a horse and our experienced horse back riding 11 year old also enjoyed herself. We surfed the web and found a place that did trail rides as well as pony rides for younger kids. The did the pony ride before the main trail rides started, so we all walked along as Maya rode her smaller horse that was lead by hand by a guide. Since it was fairly steep in parts, I made sure I stayed close.
Then when that was over, I went on the trail ride along with our 11 year old for 45 minutes.
The disadvantage of this was that my wife ended up getting left out, but since neither she or I are really into adventure horse riding, she did not mind too much.
Total cost was about $71 dollars and it took up most of a very nice fall day. The kids really enjoyed this family adventure and Maya keeps talking about her horse every day. I think it made a lasting impression.
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