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| - I think I'll steal Ayesha's style of review for my own on this 1.
I'd like to preface this review with these things:
1. I was taken here on a first date. It was great!
2. I'm an animal lover. I respect animals for actually having unappreciated intelligence. I hear horses remember people who treat them well.
3. I don't care about poop 1 way or another. I can say that I'd rather deal with horse poop than human poop though! It's just digested grass. Humans eat all sorts of processed foods. Now that's gross.
Alrighty, let's get to it.
$30 for an hour. Not bad, not bad.
This place helped me realize I don't feel like a beginner anymore. I took beginner lessons for a few years every summer in my pre tween years. I was worried I'd forgotten everything. I haven't! Going here brought back a lot of my lessons. They don't teach a darn thing here. They help you up on your horse & demonstrate, "Left to go left, right to go right." They tell you to get after your horse for trying to eat along the way too.
I'm tired of constantly "walking" my horse. There was no trotting of any kind. I practically pleaded to just go a teensy bit faster. Nope, didn't happen.
I actually own boots. Everyone else has tennis shoes on. Lots of out of towners come here to try out riding a horse.
I got snapped at because I was going to walk around the back of my horse. I'm not dumb, I KNOW I'm supposed to let the horse know I'm there by keeping my hand on him all the way around. Again, no quick teaching here at all. They don't ask you questions to determine your knowledge when you sign the waiver.
I know they have to take precautions because of all the people who have never been on a horse before, but I don't need babying. I could get my butt in & out of a saddle when I was 11, on my own. I can certainly do it now.
I did really enjoy this, I'm just frustrated by feeling held back.
The guides kind of give you flora & fauna info along the way. The people working here are nice. I just couldn't help but chuckle while thinking my grandmother would blow this kid out of the water with the plethora of information she knows.
You can volunteer here & maybe eventually work your way to having a job! Gotta be there by 6am though. Some people here work for tips. TIP YOUR GUIDE
The horses do all have names, & you learn the name of yours.
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