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| Our three huasos (Chilean cowboys - sort of) |
I am not a lover of horses and Elisa couldn't care less so Rob, Renee, and Jonathan headed for a horseback ride through the hills surrounding Santiago today. There was a choice to go out to Cajon de Maipo where we were a few weeks ago but it would have been 2 hours each way for a 3 hour ride and it seemed excessive. The
runner-up included some views of Santiago sprawl but also of the beautiful surrounding hills and got horseback riding out of the system for now.
Jonathan says:
I saw on the left side a bunch of houses and on the other a hill going steeply up. The horses were pretty cooperative and knew their way around so I didn't need to steer that much and it was easier than Prairie Winds [a camp that he went to last summer where they had horseback riding lessons]. It is also a horse therapy (
hippotherapy) place. It looked like the hill was really tall and we were really high up because we could see everything down below but we really weren't. It was really hot but surprisingly I didn't even drink half of my bottle of water.
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| Sprawl |
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| A horse break |
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| A human break - fresh cherries from the morning Farmer's Market |
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| More sprawl but happy children |
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Meanwhile, Elisa and I had an unsuccessful bikini shopping trip (for me). Oy!
Jen better read this!
ReplyDeleteSorry I have not been very responsive over the past week or so -you know how those last few weeks can be. Hope to write a longer response soon, but I am glad to see you covered Halloween. I was wondering...