Lesson and Horse Expo

Hello, everybody! I must say, i've had a great day. This morning, I had another lesson on Thunder which went very well. I started off by giving Meagen (my trainer, whose name is pronounced Megan) my paragraph on what I learned last lesson. Then, my trainer and I longed Thunder, who does NOT like being longed. He tends to throw hissy fits. Once I got on, we did some warm up work and trotting poles. I had to count Thunders stride between the poles out loud, which made me think about it more. The only thing I would really say was bad, is one of our transitions. I sort of chased him into his canter, and I should have been spongeing and adding leg to bring him up to a collected canter. Instead I just closed my leg and broke my connection. I corrected myself though, and everything else seemed to be good.Anyways, Meagen said that I did a good job of holding my connection, and that it was much better than last weeks! I was quite happy about this. After lesson, my mom took my friend D and I up to a horse expo for the day! We watched some clinics, one on jumping, one on dressage, and one on working with your horse from the ground. They were all pretty educational.We also watched demonstrations on Icelandic Horses and Miniature Horses. The Icelandic Horses were really neat, and we got to hear about their heritage and their gaits. I found out one very interesting fact: even to this day, once an Icelandic Horse leaves Iceland, they may never return. Isn't that odd? Anyways, we then watched the Minis go around. It was overwhelmingly cute. Some of those minis were jumping about two foot six! Apparently in some mini competitions, they jump up to THREE FOOT SIX! All in hand, of course. D and I then wandered through all of the booths, buying cotton candy and looking at trailers with living quarters. We also looked through books, saddles, a mini Greenhawk (My fave horse store) and literally about a thousand other booths. We're going back tomorrow to watch clinics, buy stuff, and watch the horse demos. There's an ANDALUSIAN demo tomorrow that I just can't wait to see! I'll report back with details! The cat is named Ash, ain't he cute?