Well I am back from an amazing adventure- one that kept me so busy I had barely enough time to handle the daily things I needed to accomplish let alone blogging!!
My adventure began on Thursday July 2nd when Erik Martonovich picked me up in L.A. Check him out on his own site for BIG HORSE PRODUCTIONS out of Vegas! The first picture is from the first leg of our journey- transporting Odyessey (Valley View Vaulters horse for the competition) from LA to Vegas. We had a solid 6 hours to get to know each other and wow did I learn alot right away about how Erik does things. Everything is bigger, faster, stronger and just plain better when Erik is putting it together. The other pictures are of the tractor trailor we would use to transport ourselves, 6 horses and of course a whole lot of stuff to Kentucky. I had never been in a tractor trailor and this one was specialy designed to transport Eriks team of EIGHT Belgian Horses to and from shows across the country. Erik does a Roman Riding act with a team of 8 and with a few friends/vaulters Alethea and Greta. It has got to be an amazing site.
By the time we got to Vegas it was pretty late but I was informed that we were now on "Vegas Time" which meant we would likely be up until sun rise each morning. We practiced vaulting that very first night from 12- 3 am. I have never had so much fun vaulting! At first I was really thinking vaulting at this time of night could not go well but the curious part of me wouldn't let go of the idea that Erik was going to let me on one of his beautiful horses. I couldn't resist! I mounted first try though it was a big bigger of a mount than I am used to- I still made it and even got some quick pointers from Erik on my stand. In 2 go's on the horse I went from a horrible wobbily stand to a clean solid stand. Amazing- I could not wait to see what I would learn next!
