Uwah... yesterday was Epic fun!
It started with me getting up at about 8am and speed-eating then finishing getting cleaned up. Around 9, Tom swung by and picked me up and we headed to the meeting place (I'd tell you all where it is, but it'd give away the town of which I live in!). Anyhoo, it was a nice little tourist attraction of where the Indians met "The Discovery Corps" back in the 1800's. I say "Discovery Corps" because, the Indians don't think of them as discoverers. It's hard to explain, but I sympathize with them. Anyhoo, after a tour of the museums there, we all went to a Ranch in town.
The people who own the ranch had a day's worth of activities planned out for us. But, they had to split us into groups and Tom and I were separated. And, I didn't know a single soul there... so, Yosei had to make new friends! And, he did! One of the French Exchange students was rather friendly with me. She was kinda fun. XD Then, another girl who is hosting one of the students really grew on me. Especially after I commented about Edward Elric and she knew who that was! :D Yay, a fellow Anime fan to make me feel a little more secure!
Anyhoo, in our little groups, we got to do the following:
- Learn how to cast for fly-fishing (too easy)
- Rodeo-roping a fake steer (the others got rowdy and annoying)
- pinning the tail on a real-live donkey (I felt so bad for it. It looks like it's been put through Hell, and the loud kids didn't help)
- Riding horses (I've ridden before, and didn't like it. So, I stayed away)
- Golf with "Horse Apples" (Really, it was frozen horse turds...)
It had been a fun day, to say the least. The fly-fishing was too easy. I felt bad for the donkey. It looked like it had been painted on recently and the poor thing had to have velcro stuck to it's rump so a bunch of blindfolded kids could try to stick a "tail" to it... All the while, our partners shouted directions to us in french to find the donkey (gauche, droit, toutdroit, derrier) and the other students tried to mess us up by stepping in the blind one's way or diving down in front of them to trip them up. Ugh... @_@
The horse riding was simple enough. My partner and I were assigned to a horse named Charger. Nice horse. I led him around by the reigns for a little while and talked to him. Told him how beautiful his coat and eyes were (really, this horse was simply wonderful to look at) and thanked him for the tour of the stables (because, really- he was leading me XD). Then, as my partner rode him, whenever she got close to me, Charger would start to follow me... not listen to the rider... I WAS STALKED BY A HORSE IN OTHER WORDS!
XD
Then, we were to play golf with horse turds. In the end, most of the boys picked up a piece and played football while the rest kinda watched and did our best to avoid being hit with horse feces. Then, we all stood in a circle and traded curse words in french and english... and I slipped in some japanese ones... XD
After three and a half hours, I was able to see Tom again. He'd had a lot of the same sentiments as me with the animals. *sigh* They said "Horses are our friends" and such and such... but, you don't ride your friends and lead them around with ropes! These horses were TOOLS that they gave PRAISE to! DX Poor horses...
Anyhoo, the rest of the evening was spent as a barbeque followed by roasting marshmallows. I got the first one! :3 And, I like my marshmallows BURNT! Yes, I do!
Ugh, but all day, the weather sucked! It kept threatening to rain and the cold wind blew straight through us and left us shivering for the 10 hours we were out. And, the little bit of sunlight there was left mine and Tom's faces SUNBURNED! My face hurts today. TT^TT Oh, well. It was still rather fun, despite the negatives. ^_^
Ah, what a fun weekend that was. Hope you guys had a great time as well!
.:~*Yosei*~:.
