Scottsdale Arabian Show....

Today we spent the day at Westworld, walking around, watching the horses at the Scottsdale Arabian Show, and of course,.. shopping. Five simultaneous rings/classes going on at once, plus massive numbers of booths selling everything horse related and not. I looked at a pair of cut off boots that I thought was "cute", and looked at the price tag...$1100.00. Had to put my glasses on to make sure I was reading it correctly. We did buy a couple of things... a little pink sparkly horse for Jasmine's bedroom door, a little horse tee shirt for her, and a new purse for me. We watched quite a few classes. The most exciting moment was at the end of the Arabian costume class, one of the horses became very anxious and wouldn't move. He was just frozen like a statue. Two guys came over to try to lead the horse out, and he/she just went ballistic, dumped the rider, and took off right thru the middle of the ring where all of the computers, desks, announcers, and judges chairs were. Everything went flying, including women with suits on, chairs, papers, etc... It was amazing that no one was hurt. Next, we went to one of the yearling halter classes. I always like to go to that particular class because it is the best of both worlds- little babies, and extremely handsome young and older men with three-piece suits on leading the little babies around!! Most of the people in the audience are typically women:)) In the shopping area, there were many artists. Jasmine kept bugging this one particular artist who was painting portraits. She was really interested in what he was doing! Had a fun day. Perfect weather, as usual for this time of year!