Last Day of Horse Camp

The plan was to get up early and go for one last ride before heading back to the cities. I got up early, before everyone else actually, and fed the boys and started getting ready to go. By the time everyone else made it up and had breakfast and started getting ready it was getting to be past 9am. We had planned to leave at 10 to make it back in time for WCR. Everyone was finally ready to hit the trail and we set off. I decided to ride Cody as I hadn't ridden him since the first day. I've come to the conclusion that he likes everyone else better than me, though. We were only a few minutes into the ride when it became apparent that Cody's feet were really sore. So at the next fork in the trail we split off from the rest and headed back to camp. Of course there had to be a big argument between he and I over which way to go. Cody wanted to stay with the main group being the ever herd bound horse he is. But we made it back in the end.

The rest of the group ended up returning earlier than expected because they couldn't figure out which way they were supposed to go on the trail. We had everything packed and ready to go on time with the exception of the horses. Axel hopped on the trailer like an expert, and Cody decided he wasn't going to leave. So after 20 minutes or so of "help" and "advice" from everyone we finally got him on and hit the road.

The trip home was smooth sailing until we pulled into Monticello to take the county roads to the barn. At that point we had actually made really great time and thought we were going to be early. Axel squeezed out of his halter and turned himself around backwards, blocking Cody on the wrong side of the trailer all the while biting at Misty in the back half of the trailer. We stopped and I had to unclip Cody so he wouldn't get tangled up. The rest of the drive was a little scarier, with more stomping and moving around than normal and some nasty traffic but we made it back in one piece. We rushed around unpacking and unloading the horses so we could rush off to WCR as close to ontime as we could make it.

Poor Cody is going to have to reestablish his position in the herd. Corey took his herd back while we were gone and was chasing Cody and Axel around non stop while we were unpacking. Hopefully things will have settled down by next Saturday and the boys will be back to their old selves and not sore.