Weekend Photo Highlights

Here are some photo highlights from our weekend away in the Santa Ynez Valley...

Harmony with Horses

As most of you know, I am a horse lover like none other. I had to stop riding a while back due to lack on money in the budget (it is an expensive sport, hobby, love).

Anyway, back in the spring I found this great workshop online called "Harmony with Horses" in West Sonoma County. I had planned on buying the workshop for myself for my birthday but Miss Wendy beat me to the punch and purchased it for me. Well, after a couple of cancellations due to rain, I went to the 3 hour workshop this past Saturday and it was incredible. I can't even explain what happened there but it was magical. It is all about personal intention and working on the same vibrational plane with the horses. There were 5 of us in the class and we all had the option to do a couple exercises testing our intention and personal space with the horses. Horses are so amazing, they never judge and can tune into what is going on in your head and I have never experienced that as much as I did on Saturday. I mean, I was tight with Apache, my relationship with him was intense and full of love and lessons - I felt him and he felt me - we needed each other at that time in both of our lives. The exercises on Saturday were in a nut shell, us as single humans, moving horses with nothing but our minds and intention. If you are intrigued or interested in hearing more, call me and I can lay down some examples. I know that I am going back to do more - I learned so much about myself and learned that I have a lot of work to do in order to become more confident in all aspects of my life. It was very revealing to say the least.

This entire experience made me miss Apache - I had a good cry afterwards. I just cropped this photo below and noticed that I named it "true love" when I originally loaded it on my flickr (4/20/07), that makes me sad. One day we may meet again, you never know. I know that each horse I meet will teach me something new about myself, Apache was the first and will always have a special place in my heart. Sniff. Lump in my throat.

Jess, if you are reading this - we have to talk about this, I want to share what I have learned. I think it would be cool to add to the potential equine program.

Long Weekend is Over

Back to work today, but had a great time off!

Here is the run down...

Picked up Angela from the airport on Thursday after work. Tim met us up on the hill and we went out for drinks at Wild Side West then we went to Zantes for Indian Pizza and a pitcher of beer. Nothing more hilarious than walking into a Lesbian bar and ordering two Pink Ladies and a Guinness, the bar tender and her guests at the bar got a good laugh. We super love this place, they have the BEST garden in the back, you would never know it was there plus they are local, super nice and make great drinks!Friday we had breakfast at Whole Foods Market and then got our groceries taken care of, packed the car and headed for the coast. We stopped to pet some roadside horses along the way that had a new baby. They were super friendly and when I went to get my camera out of my purse one of them stuck their nose right in like I was getting a snack for them. Smarty pants!

We got to the house at about 3:45 PM, unpacked and let the blender start working for us! The view was awesome! Not as close to the beach as usual, but nice and not as much wind and cold as in the past.

The rest of the weekend was awesome! We had a great time, wonderful weather, yummy food and roaring laughter. I don't want to give it all away, you know, a lady has to have a few secrets!

Needless to say, I can't wait until next summer!

Monday morning, we took our time packing things up and at about Noon we headed back to our homes, airport (Angela), etc. I was so tired I spaced out once I got to the Golden Gate Bridge and put my Jeep on autopilot for the rest of the way home. I unloaded everything into the house and went to bed and guess what? When I tried one last time to get my portable DVD player to work, IT WORKED!!!!!! I love it when things like this happen. I also think it is funny that I did not throw it away, I kept trying it each night before I left for the weekend.
Maybe it needed time to recharge just like I did.