horses..relaxation..dinner

Okay so we got to sleep in a little bit longer this morning..not much longer but still longer. We all got ready and hit the road to go ride some horses through some trails. I do have to say that alot of these people either have some really great jobs or are just swimming in some debt because there are some gorgeous and ginormous homes here in Canada. Driving through some countryside/foresty areas we saw some b-e-a-utiful homes! Makes me way jealous for sure!! We make it to the ranch and after paying our dues and signing the paperwork that says if we die out there in the pastures oh well :) then we walked over to where we had to wait on the horses. They brought the horses over so we could jump on and even though there was a very nice mounting block right beside us they made us do it the hard way and jump up. I am pretty sure everyone got up on their first try except for me who managed with help to get up on the second time. Melodys horses name was JD, Beckys horse was Star, Pams was Ranger and mines name was Shotgun. I have to admit that I was quite nervous when I was told his name but she assured me that he would be nice and slow for me. They gave us a quick lesson on trying to make the horses do and go where we wanted, she also told us the horses were not supposed to be eating while out on the trail. We started off onto the trails in the woodsy area that was quite muddy and rocky. All the horses seemed to do really well through the rocks, mud and trees! They asked if any of us wanted to go a little faster than the nice slow walk we were doing and Pam and Becky accepted while me and Melody decided to keep our pace. So one of the guides took the braver two off while Melody and I stayed with the other horse girl. Even though the horses were supposedly not hungry they sure did try to keep eating the flowers and weeds along the way. They told us when they try to eat to just pull up as hard as we could on the reigns and give them a little nudge in the sides and they should stop...however that wasn't the case so much and mine at least just kept on eating. The two groups met up again a little while later and we headed back towards the stables. So we all managed to jump off our horses safe and sound and head back towards the car.

We were all hungry when we made it back to the hotel so we decided to have some pizza delivered to us. It was only supposed to be about 30 minutes and around an hour or so and a couple showered people later it finally arrived. So we munched on some food, watched some tv, some took naps and then we finished getting ready for the evening. We then hit the road for our Medieval Times evening! We found our parking location after asking some guy with a crazy cool accent. With more time to kill before the show and dinner was open we walked down to the harbour front. Pam and I decided that we wouldn't mind being homeless so much if we could live in Toronto. There are people on roller blades and bicycles all over the place downtown. Seeing seagulls (I am not for sure if that is the proper name) really never gets old..those things are just too stinking cute and funny! The squirrels up here are even different..we came across one today and its color was an almost black color and we decided we wanted to get a picture of it and as it is on the tree branch (which is just a short way over eye level)trying to get some food it started kinda staring at us..I was a little afraid that it was going to attack.

We made it back to Medieval times so we could get our tables set before the show started. After of course stepping into the slowest moving line we finally get everything squared away and manage to get us some front row seats in the blue group which was nice. We of course like at every tourist attraction have to do the group photo shot (which with the package we ordered that was an added bonus so that was nice) then finally make it in and go and get us some drinks. Becky, Melody and Pam get some nice little goblets and me for odd reason think I have to have to get a cup that is monstrous! We go and sit at a table while waiting for the doors to open when we hear them start talking about any celebrations that people may have mentioned (and Melody being the sweet person she is let them know that it was mine, Pam and Beckys birthday) and they have this king who knights in front of a huge crowd of people. Luckily the doors had opened up before we had to go. We make it our seats and then were we are soon served some tomato bisque soup and a piece of garlic bread. Since we are not given any utensils I end up drinking my soup through one of the straws that came with my drink. Soon to follow they slap on a huge piece of chicken followed by a piece of ribs and then some sort of potato. The show was fun to watch while we ate dinner..some of the horses were doing some pretty neat tricks like walking around on just there hind legs and such. The knight that was assigned to our color was a little creepy to look at and we very quickly decided after seeing the green knight that we wanted to change to the green team! He was quite easy on the eyes and had the best mean/stern sounding knight voice..it reminded me of Sylvester Stallone. The knights of course did all of there little challenges like they normally do. I got to be one of the lucky winners when they throw the carnations into the audience and Becky was the winner of the sash which I think dubbed her the "Queen of Love" (but I could be mistaken on the name of that). Needless to say our group was loved by the creepy little knight. There was a guy who had a hawk that they had fly a few laps around the building which was pretty cool. Becky informed the wench (that is apparently an okay word to use towards the waitresses) that it was mine and Pams birthdays somehow forgetting about hers so when they brought out our cake we had a candle stuck into each of ours. There was some hope with the tournament between the knights that our color may win but he survived the first battle but wasn't able to live through the second one sadly. Our pretty green knight did however kick the knights butt who kicked ours. The show was then soon over and we herded out where you were able to meet the knights and take picture with them if you chose to. We of course chose to with the Mr. Green Knight and Becky was sweet and also went and had a picture taken with the blue guy. The lady who we asked to take the picture for us told us that she was happy we asked her cause she wanted to see him because she thought he looked cute from where her seats were. Pam and I think Becky went and took pictures with the hawk guy not to be confused with hot guy which a couple of us did. :] I think that was pretty much it and then we heading back to the hotel room. Some tomorrow plans were made and some television was watched and then the girls went to bed. Hope I didn't miss anything but it is almost 2 and we are getting up in a few hours so I should probably get some sleep. May try to add some pictures later with the help of Melody or Becky but if not sorry you just have to use your imagination. :)