Good morning! We arrived at the DevonWood Equestrian Centre yesterday early afternoon. It was about a 6 1/2 hour drive from Spokane, where we stopped the night before. Oslo seemed fairly tired when we arrived and he has spent most of the time sleeping in his stall. At one point he was sleeping on his nose against the stall door! He seems to be a little more sedate than usual, but I am not going to even start talking about that since I know he can change his temperament in less than a few minutes! We did go for a trail ride around the beautiful facility yesterday evening and he still seemed fairly alert, so I am hoping he just needs some good rest. We will do a stretchy ride today to see how he is feeling and get used to the footing in the show ring.
DevonWood facility is absolutely amazing! Everything is so well maintained and the barn is out of a European magazine. The lawns are perfect and there is a separate grazing area for the horses with lots of clover (Oslo's second favourite to dandelions!). Oslo is stabled in the brandnew stalls up by the spectacular barn. Thick rubber mats and a large stall that has never been used! The people and owners are very nice and super friendly. Another great thing about the facility is that the main competition ring has exactly the same footing as the warm-up ring. There are two other show rings along with warm-ups for those rings as well. It is located about 20 minutes from Portland and is set on a lush, green hill with a variety of large trees. It is very picturesque! It is slightly chilly here this morning though and overcast. I guess that is better than 40 degrees though!
Angie Golley, Courteany Fraser, Joni Lynn Peters, and a bunch of other B.C. rides are here as well. It is nice to have some fellow Canadians to chat and hang out with! We are camping right beside Angie Golley, Jennifer Peers, and Ruurd and Wieke from Central Alberta. It is awesome to have such fun neighbours to sit and chat with in the evenings!
There are over 250 entries at this show and I think things are going to get very busy, very quickly! There is supposed to be 500-1000 people at the Freestyles Saturday night and there is a special area for several tents of vendors. I am not usually a big shopper, but there are NO taxes of any kind here in Oregon, so we might have to purchase a few things!!!
That is all I have to report for now. Jennifer has kindly donated her internet stick to us for the weekend, so I am hoping to update the blog regularly.
Linds
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