lesson, clinic, and lesson :)

on Wednesday i had my lesson (not on Mondays like it usually is because of the rain) and stitchy was great! then i traveled him to ride at a clinic at Summerwood (this gorgeous facility in grass valley!) and that was awesome. It was how to deal with your riding under pressure.... one of the exercises we did was "the box" haha :) there were eight jumps in the shape of a box (duh) 2 on each side. then we would go out (each in turns) and trot around the box for like 5 seconds when he would call out the 4 or 6 or 8 (it got progressively harder every time) and we would have to jump them... like this. block, double block, green, diamonds, natural, white, barrel, bucket. AND we would have to remember the order.... AND we would have to take the shortest distance from the last jump to the next jump!!!! it was cool and i hope my explanation was ok at least (it is hard without a picture!) and yay i have a lesson tonight!!! exciting :)