Well the cat is out of the bag

Remember how I said I had some awesome, exciting, amazing, ABSOLUTELY THRILLING news to tell you guys? Well I am excited, you guys might just be a bit envious of my amazing year I have been having. Between the few handfuls of lucky things to happen to me this early in the year I just happened to have one more amazing thing in my near future that tops almost everything. Almost.

Last weekend I was at can-am. I always meet up with Zoe and Gerry there and we share a few long moments talking about all the amazing things bitless have done for the horse world.
We talk about training horses, re-training horses, riding in bits and most importantly riding without them. Someplace along the lines here as a coach and distributor of their wonderful bitless bridles we talked about different trade shows and horseback vacation spots that rode their horses bitless and me coming along, expenses paid.

Vacation you say!?
Yup.

Riding horses you say!?
Of course!


Bitless!?
What else?

Where!?

THE SLIEVE AUGHTY CENTER IN IRELAND!!

(All images property of the Slieve aughty center)

I am so excitedly(is that a word?) pleased to announce I am going as a vacationer/writer to document this trip and ride along with them myself!

I just wanted to get my plane ticket in order before I told you all!

SEVEN DAYS! In Ireland! Riding horses bitless! Taking pictures! IN IRELAND! We are also going to have an interdressage competition where Karina will be present, awarding rosettes and possibly a trophy.

Pinch me I might be dreaming! But I bought the plane ticket so my bank account says I am not!

Pinch me anyway.

Again please?

Ok really I musn't be dreaming. I bruise easy.

From the 17th-24th of May I will be traveling here to Dublin Ireland for a week to document this incredible bitless journey.
I.just.can't.wait. I already started counting the days.

The only problem is in order for me to leave for a week, especially over oceans, I need to do almost two months of preparation *shoot me now*

I need:
People to take care of the places I work which equates into about 15 different people I need to contact.
Someone to take care of the horses. God forbid Indigo go without a good grooming and cookie feeding. She also likes her straw fluffed every two days so she has one day to lie in poo and make lovely stains, despite the fact that half the shed does have clean staw in it where she could lay.
To find another 4-H leader for the horse club. See the parade of horse breeds is when I will be away. It's a BIIIIG deal. I pretty much run the club of 31 kids this year by myself. And you adults say that 21 year olds are not responsible. Why I outta.
Get a bazillion, million other things done.

The trip is a month and then some away and I am already rolling my eyes thinking of all the stuff I need to fix before I leave. I think I might take on too much responsibility for one person. If I didn't have so much to do I am sure I would be getting into trouble though.

Oh and I need to mention I will be doing daily updates on this blog with tons of pictures wile I am in Ireland, riding, bitless. The bitless horse blog has been chosen as the host blog for the trip! How exciting. This whole thing just blows my mind. How lucky could one girl get? I guess it's from all my 2009 bad luck.

By the way, do they really jump stone wall jumps on horses in Ireland like the movies? Cause I would totally be up to jumping a big stone wall with a honest horse. Is there such a thing as leprechauns? Because I have a feeling I have some sort of hidden childhood fear of nightmares involving squat, ginger men clad in green. Is the beer always green there or am I just having flashbacks of St.Patrick's day?

So there you have it, good news!