Briggsy arrived back in town today, right into the middle of the Nelson Santa Parade. Kids everywhere, loud speakers blaring out cheesy Christmas music along the entire main street. No chance of getting a park anywhere near the bus station. Not that the bus was at the station as expected, this one went to the visitor centre instead. Not knowing this, and the fact that the bus was late, and I'd lost her cell phone number, meant I had to drive home again without finding her. Meanwhile Briggsy had phoned my place and left a message to explain that the bus was late and that she was going to an internet café to she if she could get hold of me that way. I missed her called by just two minutes. So I went here and left the previous post, telling her to meet me at the Post Office. What do you know, it worked. By the time I drove back into town, found a park 3 blocks away and walked to the post office. I wish I had my camera with me. There she was, standing among the parade spectators under the loudspeakers playing nauseatingly loud Christmas songs looking helpless, like she needed rescuing. I thought about leaving her there for a little while longer to she how long she could take the music, but I took pity.
The weather threaten to dampen our planned horse riding trip this evening, but it to, took pity on us. The only rain we got while on the ride was at the halfway point when we were inside a little cottage having refreshments (juice and muesli bar).
I got the biggest horse there, in fact Volvo is the largest horse in Nelson I was told. It certainly looked like a long way to fall. We reached an understanding and he was a very gentle ride, although I'm sure I wasn't the most comfortable rider for him. We did some trotting and cantering, well he did... I just hung on and tried to find my rhythm.
This was the halfway point of the ride where we stopped for refreshments. I could quite easily live here. During the ten minutes we spent inside it started raining very hard outside. We all donned oilskin raincoats for the ride home but within a few minutes of leaving the rain stopped as quickly as it began, leaving us to a nice fresh clean looking valley.
10:33:37 PM 
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