The Spanish Riding School

Today was purely horses. First thing in the morning we watched the morning training at the Spanish Riding School. The Spanish Riding School is the best classical dressage program in the world. It is a riding school where riders go through years and years of training, then get appointed with a stallion that they will train right from the start and move up through all the moves and levels of classical horsemanship with. Spanish Riding School riders wear the fanciest clothing to keep the military tradition. The grounds are unbelievable. The arena is in the in-town palace and is made purely out marble. You should have seen the stables. The stalls were so roomy and had long padded isles when you stepped out of them. The wash area had fancy everything and hot heat lamps to dry and relax the horses after their bath. The moves were unbelievable also. They did moves as complicated as the piaffe and the levade. The stallions were so strong; you should have seen the necks on these horses, soooooooo muscular. It was so funny, and a little bit scary, right when the grooms were taking the horses out of the arena, on of the horses was feeling frisky, and decided to break loose from the halter and gallop around the ring non stop bucking it's head off.

The riders were also just as amazing, when they asked the horses for difficult tasks the horses didn’t even hesitate, and the rider’s aids were invisible. The riders were strong as well. one guy did this very interesting thing, when he dismounted, he did a handstand on the horse's back, then vaulted himself off. The part I liked most was that you could see the horses learning, it was so inspiring.

Here's a link to the Spanish Riding School- click here

Second my mom and I went this humungous tack store!!! They probably had ten million blankets and sheets!!!!!! I got spray on stain remover for white horses, because as you can imagine, they get dirt spots very frequently. I also got some ear muffs and a fill out board to put my pony’s medical info on.

After my mom and I left the tack shop we went back to the apartment to meet my dad and went out to dinner.

The last pic is me standing in front of The Vienna City Hall. It looks just like the one in Williamstown..............NOT!!!!!!!