{"id":2380,"date":"2015-03-30T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2016-09-07T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:45:13","slug":"ringing-in-the-last-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/ringing-in-the-last-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringing In the Last Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was my group’s last riding session till November. \ud83d\ude41 I had a new, wonderful horse, but a really bad saddle I had a couple of weeks ago whose stirrups twist my bad leg. So it was a rather 50\/50 ride, half great fun on a good horse and half agony no matter how much our guide tried to adjust to adjust the stirrups. It was a gorgeous walk on the beach with the super high rough waves beside us and almost no one out since swimming is prohibited.<\/p>\n

We only rode one hour, but made it count with a lot of cantering. Even though my stirrups sucked, I felt safe on the horse and went at it, hanging onto the pommel for dear life since my stirrups weren’t worth anything! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

My guide didn’t like my dismounting technique and tried to show me how to do it. I cobbled together enough Spanish to tell him that I have a bad knee, he has a bad saddle, and I couldn’t<\/em> dismount properly because my leg had seized up. I hope I didn’t make him feel too badly and I emphasized that I still had a great time!<\/p>\n

We all gave him an extra 100 pesos as a thank you gift and he was quite touched. He refused to give me a goodbye hug, saying that we are going to see each other on Isla in the next month. He’s such a good guy.<\/p>\n

After riding, my friend S and I went to Carmelita’s to meet ‘her’ jewellery guy. I had mentioned to her on Saturday that I’ve been looking for a snake ring for years. I stopped biting my nails in December 2011 and after the one-year mark, I wanted to buy myself a ring to celebrate. But I don’t like to just go out and looking for something like that; it has to find me.<\/p>\n

So whenever I ran into silver jewellery vendors, most notably in Nuevo Progreso<\/a> and Pensacola Beach<\/a>, I shopped hard, to no avail.<\/p>\n

The problem is I know what I want and I won’t spend money until I find it. I was looking for a snake and had a very particular idea of what I wanted said snake to look like.<\/p>\n

So S told her jewellery guy that her friend with big fingers was looking for a snake ring and he said that he would bring a selection with him for me to look at today. That would give him an idea of what I’m looking for and he could search in greater depth if I didn’t like what he had.<\/p>\n

Well, he had one that not only fit, but that I liked! It’s a bit bigger than I had in mind and it is not real silver, so it’ll only last so long. But I got it for just 100 pesos (down from 150), which is a very fair price.<\/p>\n

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This one will do just fine until a real silver one finds me. And who knows, I might have slightly smaller fingers when it does. I have dropped a whole ring size (from nine to eight) since I started looking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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