Well I will try to jump in with a blow by blow for you dublin. I really wish you could have made it too. It was such a special weekend.
My treat, provided my my aquaintance, Ashley Taylor and her gracious invitation to join her in the VIP tent, was to die for. We had excellent seating both Saturday and Sunday in the Vip tent. The catered luncheons were excellent, and Saturday we did consume our fair share of the cabernet sauvignon I might say. So when Taryn says they missed a round for the dessert table, I say it was a worthwile stop. Yummmmy.
It was heart wrenching to watch Keri Potter-Pessoa’s fall on Saturday. Details on results post on H/J board.
After a lovely afternoon of sea breeze weather and great horse show jumping, Ashley and I then had a wonderful dinner at the Cedar Inn restaurant in San Juan Capistrano.
Sunday the plan was for the CoTH group to meet in front of the VIP tent at 1:00 pm. We had given clues for attire so we might recognize each other. As Ashley and I are wandering through the vendor area, I turn and what do I spy but a woman sporting a sweater with an American flag. I immediately said, “You must be Coreene???” And yes it was, with Taryn. We had a fun visit, coreene gave Ashley some advertising tips on her display ad in Riding magazine, poor dear couldn’t get away from working. Ashley is James Taylor Ranches and brokered the hay for the event.(Shameless plug for those who might need hay) Then we went on our way until 1:00.
I met up with Coreene and Taryn again at the VIP tent, when we were soon approached by akrogirl and introduced ourselves. Come to find out she rides in Phoenix at a barn my friend just visited while trying horses. Then AAjumper appeared and we were pleased to hear she had had a very successful go earlier in the weekend with her jumper mare. We waited for awhile for more, but alas we were the contingent.
Then we “conned” a couple of the cutest young gals that were ticket-taking at the VIP tent to do the photos for ALL of our cameras. They were so cute and really seemed to enjoy being involved.
We went our seperate ways and enjoyed the rest of the show.
Thanks to Taryn’s great digital camera, we have up close and personal photos so quickly. Isn’t technology great?
“The older I get, the better I used to be.”
), but those that did were treated to a spectacular afternoon. Everyone was so nice, and it was great to put a name to a face.
My own previous attempts at action photos have been pretty pathetic!
Of course, we also forgot to bring sunscreen since the word we got was to expect cool (by our standards) and cloudy, so we are all now a glorious shade of red 
