Tuesday, May 25, 2010

First day

Sorry no pictures yet, I don't have my comp set up just using Dom's. First day was super! Flight was easy, walked through immigration and they didn't check my bags. Just how I like it! On the way back to the house we drove into Munich and ate some white sausage and pretzel, and saw a castle. I watched Dom ride his horses. Ali (the horse) is 6 and Rod is 11. He will show them both Saturday! We had a BBQ for dinner which was really yummy.
Today we got up at 8 (2am in America) and I stared at the wall a while before having a breakfast of bread butter jam and some sandwich meat stuff. It was also good, rumor has it tomorrow is eggs and ham! I want to make pancakes sometime because they don't really eat them here. We went to the barn early and I started Ali and Dom rode Rod, but at the end we switched. Ali is very hard to ride! He is huge (18hh) and long! Rod was super. We hacked the horses out on some really nice biking and walking trails and they were a little bit wild! After the barn we went into Augsburg and got groceries and lunch. I had some sort of turkey (maybe but who knows!) sandwich. There was a massive hunk of meat (like 3 feet long and a foot wide) and we watched the guy saw off hunks. Very interesting. I also got to watch Dom teach a beginner lesson, funny how different we start riders in America. Here they are on the lunge with no reins and a bucking strap... horse looked super happy stretcing into the side reins.
OK will write something less like a play of events when I get my comp going. The German keyboard has the letters y and z switched, plus some sierd letters I have to avoid (öäüµß) which makes this typing thing sort of tedious. So... bis bald!

3 comments:

  1. So GREAT to come home from work and read your first entry from Germany :) :) :) Keep the posts coming and I can't wait to see photos! Love you!!!! XXXOOO

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  2. Glad you're having fun!! HOT here, 90 degrees. Pool is opened!

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  3. Hi Ali
    We are looking forward to reading about your adventures in Germany. ~Susan Parks and Jane

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