Visitors!!!

So Chloe, Joshua and Rob finally arrived!!! It felt like ages since I'd seen them all and I was so excited as I waited at the arrivals gate at the airport!!!!

Rob was only staying for ten short days so we wanted to cram as much in as possible in the first week!

 We began with a trip to Ihop! For those of you at home this stands for 'international house of pancakes' and we sure had a good breakfast that day! Then we headed to Hollywood to do the obligatory, Hollywood walk of fame and see the famous Chinese theatre.
 

We spent a lot of time at the beach whilst Rob was here, watching all the unique and individual characters at Venice beach. From body builders working at at Muscle beach, to skateboarders doing tricks and stunts at the skate park, to pensioners jamming to disco on roller-skates! We also did a lot of sunbathing and playing in the surf!


Universal studios was a great day out. The studio tour took us round famous sets from back to the future, war of the worlds, psycho and even Buffy! It was extremely hot that day but Joshua, Chloe and Rob enjoyed many of the amazing rides. I was even brave enough to go through the walking dead maze!!!


The bike ride from Venice beach to Manhattan beach was another great day and it was especially entertaining with the tandem! On the way back, the smoke form the near by Sand Fire was blowing across the city and the sky turned an eerie colour unlike anything I've ever seen. Thankfully the fire is now 88% contained, but it's taken nearly 2 weeks to get it under control!

On the last night we went to the cheesecake factory in the Marina and ate far to much to finish off Rob's trip. I think he really enjoyed it and we hope he'll be back to visit soon.

Chloe is missing her horses back home a lot, so I took her riding with me and Don this week. The three girls were excellent as always and Chloe said she could get used to riding Western as it's so comfortable! I even taught he some American horse lingo i.e. jog, post and lope! It was a lovely day for a ride and Chloe was particularly impressed how Don works all three girls in the round pen before he rides at liberty, even being able to stop 2 of them at the canter and keep one going!!! Clever stuff!

We've had a few injured horses at the ranch recently (when you have over 200 semi wild horses living together, some of them are bound to get themselves in a pickle every now and then). Whilst tending to their injuries, gives us a chance to get them more used to being around people and even haltered and learn to pick up their feet ready for the farrier.

 

Later today were off to a Dodgers Baseball game which is something I've never done before so very excited! Play ball!!!!