Summer is a time of R and R… relaxing and restoration.  However some times you can get tired of relaxing and wish you could actually explore the jungle and fight snakes instead of just controlling a digitized Indian Jones figure to, in a Wii game.   So, you can guess that I was very excited when I  was invited by a friend of Rachel's and mine to go horse back riding. ( To my surprise there is actually horse farms an hour drive from our house! )  Grace, our friend, invited Rachel, Maddie and myself to go riding at one of her dad's friend's horse farm.  I was thrilled!  So we left early the next morning so that we might ride a bit before it got hot.  When we arrived we got to look around at the horses, then a few were saddled up to ride.  The first horse I tried was, no doubt, the laziest horse I have ever ridden.  No joke, you could not get this horse to trot if you were wearing spurs!  So I traded to another horse named  McDonalds.  Let me tell you, it should have been named Bullet, Jet, or somthing else infering it's speed.   The minute I gave that horse some rein it was off!  It was cantering around the coral and I had no power over it.  I was hanging on to the saddle for dear life!  The horse raced around the coral and back so fast that when McDonalds stopped I fell forward on his neck… = embarrassing…  So I was eager to switch again.  Grace, generously let me try out her horse.  His name was 小黑: Little Black.  He was great!  He loved to trot or gallop if you gave him rein, but would also walk if directed.  I had an awesome time riding horses (something I would never imagine myself doing in China!)!  Even though I have been "saddle sore" for two days now, it was worth it!