So we went trail riding at Shaker Village today, everything went fine untill Midnight jumped a log and our friend Edie fell off. She's at the hospital, messed up her right shoulder pretty bad, and she went into shock. She should be ok.

She was in the back of the group, and there were about 15 other horses hanging out off to one side, I don't know what they were doing, some of the riders were dismounted, others not. I didnt see her fall, but someone said that Midnight went to step over the log, changed his mind, leaned back on his haunches and jumped it instead. Once I realized what had happened, I jumped off of Lucy, handed my dad (Who was on Rufus) my camera and Lucy's reins, and went back to see if Edie was ok.

Luckally, one of the women in the big group of riders happened to be a physical therapist, and they had ice packs, so while they and my dad took care of Edie, I got the job of ponying Midnight back to the trailer with Lucy. Alone. We were down in a valley so naturally there was absolutely no cell phone reception. Riding alone through the woods, on Lucy, who behaved like an angel, thank God, and leading Mr. Butthead, who wasn't so good. It was nerve wracking.

Midnight acted like an ass for some of the way back, he spooked and flipped out at a horse drawn carriage, got away from me, had to canter Lucy to catch up with him and grab his bridle.

What really pissed me off though.... while we were down there seeing if Edie was ok, several of the women were being very helpful, but there was this idiot.. this guy... who took two of the horses in that group, and stood on top of them, one foot on each saddle. The horses didn't look like they liked it. They kept trying to move away from him. WTF. What if one of them had spooked cause he was being a jackass and ran over Edie who was laying on the ground no more than like 25-30 feet away. Midnight was still being an ass, several other horses were not very calm, and this guy decides what a great idea it would be to stand on two horses while all this chaos was going on. Jackass, if anything had happened, I would not have hesitated to beat the crap out of him probably, I was freaked, my anxiety levels were through the roof.

So then finally the paramedics were reached, two riders had gone on ahead to get help they said, but when I got back to the trailer, no one had called paramedics. My dad eventually found signal and reached them through Edie's phone, but I didn't know that until after the paramedics were here and my dad and Rufus got back.

It was freaking insane. I'm just relieved that she's going to be ok. Midnight's fine as well. I'm exhausted. I did get some good pictures before all this chaos happened though, I'll eventually put some of them up I guess.