McDonalds Run - Friday August 3, 2012

We packed up 3 horses on Friday Caddy, Spirit and Wind.  Caddy goes on first.

Here they are. Caddy, Spirit in the middle, and then Wind. 

We took 3 different vehicles.  Todd drove the truck. With him was Shelley (no picture because she's taking the pictures!, Kathleen and Marie.

Todd, driving the new truck!

Kathleen:

Marie:

Lynn, Pam and Carrilee followed in the car and we had walkie talkies going between the car and the truck.
Troy had to work late, so he and Tammy came later in their car.    We had lots of fun with the walkie talkies.  It started with something like "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Horse hair airlines. Today we will be flying at an altitude of 80 km an hour...." then it just continued....bump roads were turbulance....on and on!    The car crew knew that Todd's favorite song is NOT puff the magic dragon, so we decided to sing a line or two into the microphone.  Todd groaned.  Then, the truck decided to treat the car to some kind of a camp song involving a chicken, hot water on the chicken's legs and a boiled egg !?  Have to do something to keep busy and have fun during a 5 hour, 45 minute drive.

When we got there it was coming on dark, with a thunder and lightening storm happening all around us.  Troy and Tammy showed up soon afterwards and everyone got straight to work. The boys put up the fencing and the girls set up the tents.  With a bit of hard work, everything was up, including the canopy.                                                      

Then, we gathered into the canopy for some chatter and fun.  We decided (I decided?)  to challenge the other team to a "sing off"  Boy did we have fun with that!  Neither Pam nor I can sing for beans and we know it.  Shelley captured some of the carrying on, on camera...before I caught her taping and made her turn it off.  What you hear/see is me and Carrilee trying to convince Pam to come and sit by us so we can sing. Pam is not convinced easily.  At one point I tell her to "come over here and be your rotten self"  I am trying to explain to her that I know we are lousy but let's just have fun with it.  I swear I was on my first beer......just having a good time!  Here is the bit of footage Shelley managed to sneak into before getting caught!  From there, we went to our tents.  Pam, me and Carrilee were sharing a tent...we laughed well into the night.  Was tired the next day but it was worth it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEIK5lCa2i8&feature=player_detailpage