Road Trip!

Today I drove up to San Juan Capistrano to meet an old friend for lunch.  Derek was worried about me driving all that way by myself.  I reassured him that I would be just fine and promised to call him when I arrived.  I was so excited about meeting up with Nancy.  She is a "horse" friend of mine from N. Calif.  We had lost touch and I hadn't seen her in the 3 years since we had moved down south.  She didn't know that I had been diagnosed a second time with cancer. When I told her my tale of the last 9 months, she broke down and cried.  She hugged me close and said it made it even more special that we were able to rekindle our friendship.   We assume our friends will always be with us.  We spent a leisurely lunch catching up on each others lives spending a lot of time talking about our respective horses.   She is one of the few people who didn't bat an eye when I told her I went to Mexico and bought a three year old stallion.   She understood completely that we horse women occasionally loose our minds. She then recounted her story of buying her present horse sight unseen over the Internet.  He arrived from Florida as bag of bones and lame to boot.... Plus her trainer hated him and said he would never amount to anything.  Now two years later (and a different trainer) he is winning high point at all the local shows.  I am glad her horse story has a happy ending.    She has invited me to go with her to the CA Dressage Society annual show in Los Angeles in mid Oct.   I can't Wait!!!!