Friday Night Lights (Show Update)

I actually have a wi-fi connection so I thought I'd do a quick update.  We made it to Santa Barbara safely - whew!  After getting Speedy G situated, I found my parking spot, ate my mac-n-cheese and then walked back down to check on him.  

Sunset at the beach ...

I love junk food at a show - it's the only time I eat mac-n-cheese! And gotta have the wine.

Speedy G has a HORRIBLE neighbor, a stallion, behind him.  Every time Speedy moves, the neighbor horse rears and tries to reach over the top of the partition.  He also kicks the wall violently and basically scares the living crap out of my poor boy. 

Speedy saw me coming down the barn aisle and just about burst out of his skin.  I took him down to the lovely warm up and just let him trot and canter around me.  Then we played tons of chase games, all still on the line, to burn off at least a part of his nervous energy.  I put him back in his stall, which earned another uproar from nervous neighbor, and hung out for the better part of an hour.

Speedy did calm down, but I don't think he got much sleep.  Here are a couple of quick photos. 

Speedy looks very tense - poor guy.

He really enjoyed the run around time though.

Goofy photo, I know, but there weren't any photographers around this late!

The dressage court under the lights.