Anna-Lee Leilani

Hi, It has been a fun week.   It has been really nice down here all weekend. I was on my trampoline a lot with a friend playing water balloons and sprinkler. We got into bathing suits, filled up balloons with water and jumped until they popped. It takes longer than you'd think! Then we put the sprinkler right onto the trampoline with us and got soaked.. It was so much fun. Did you have a good 3 days? Yesterday I went horseback riding with Tequila again. We went strait outside and did a bunch of poles. Then, we came inside and did cantering which is new to me. It is a lot of fun and Tequila gets fast when she knows we are going to do cantering because she likes it so much. I worked her very hard so she was sweating when we finished so I got to sponge her down instead of grooming her. It was neat.  I had Spanish today. We are learning the days of the week Lunes, Martes, Miercoles, Jueves, Viernes, Sabado, Domingo. It is a lot of fun. Adios, Anna-Lee Here a few pho...

Hello, I went riding yesterday and since it was such a nice day here I rode outside! I liked it outside because it was calm and peaceful except when a car or school bus went past. The ring was twice the size of the arena so at first I did smaller circles. By the end I was going around the whole sand ring. Between  the wind and the traffic it was a good thing I didn't start outside on Ellie Mae. She wold have probably jumped the fence back to her paddock! I also got a new horse yesterday. Her name is Tequila. Tequila is an Appaloosa horse who is harder to control because she's so big compared to Ellie Mae. .Tequila felt very slow compared to Ellie Mae who was a pony. Ponies like Ellie Mae take quick little baby steps  move fast. Ellie Mae  also responds to my commands immediately.  To get used to Tequila we mostly worked on transitions moving quickly from  Halt to Trot, to walk and back again.One funny thing about Tequila is that she makes funny faces! She ...

Hello, I have found this week very important because I performed in The Little Mermaid. I was a Wave and Sting-ray. My favorite dance was the Sting-ray because it had attitude!!! It went very well except the last show. It was like dominoes. One of the dancers scraped her arm on a prop and stumbled bumping into another dancer who fell over a bench and sprawled into me which made me fall into the arch and scrape my knee and shoulder! Thankfully all this was when we were coming off the stage and in the wings!  Mine was a very minor injury but one dancer was not.  Her arm had 4 band-aids on the scrape from her elbow to her wrist, not fun.  The dancer who fell over the bench running off stage has a big bruise from her spine all the way around. and a few cuts.  I am really praying that they will be better. today.  I asked my family after the show whether they heard a CRASH and yes they had! Back to more pleasant things- We had rehearsed all week at Centrepointe Th...