RCMP - Muscial Ride

Too bad nobody wanted to play the guessing game :(. So here we are onto other things.

Before the pictures start I want to explain what we did. We went on a Saturday and earlier in the day at 11am we went to Holland Park to secure our FREE tickets to the musical ride. The only glitch was that the 3pm show was sold out so we went to the 8pm show. No matter, we made the best of it. It was about this first picture that our camara batteries ran to low and the screen went caput. I thought that it meant no more camara but guess what? It means that you can still use, just with the view finder (just like in the olden days - tehe). So we didn't get as many pics as we would have liked but that's okay at least we took some and have the memories. I have posted most of them - enjoy!!!
It was like an arena but with sand in the middle.

We had front row seats - it was great! No heating, made for a long sit on the wooden benches but our butts survived. Could have been colder than the balmy 5 degrees.

The officers bring out their horses a half an hour before the show to warm up.

The horses are just amazing creatures - black beauties.

This is one of the formations.

This is the pinwheel formation where four groups of four make a pinwheel and circles around.

This is where they charge with their bayonnets - oh the boys loved that!

This is a final cool down.

Then we got to pet the horses and ask questions. It was amazing how sweaty the horses were!

Aleana petting the horse.

Here I am asking a question about the marking that all the horses seemed to have half way up their forelegs. What do I know? - I have limited knowledge of horses having grown up in the city.

Maybe I didn't ask the question very clearly but the rider didn't have an answer. I thought that was odd.

Aleana went with a friend of ours yesterday and so she found out for me. It is the place that used to have their so called "third toe". The lady explained some evoluationary silliness with it like when horses were shorter that's were their legs ended etc.. Does anyone know anything more about it and have a better explanation for it?

All things bright and beautiful

All creatures great and small

All things wise and wonderful

The LORD God made them all!!