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FINALLY A VACATION FOR ERIN!

Yes, that's right Erin finally got to go somewhere while the family got to stay home. A couple weeks ago my friend Paige and me went to Farmington, New Mexico to watch her horse A.P. Chicks Dig Me (aka Chickie) race her trials. He ended up doing really well with a time of 17.50, he won first in his trial and fourth overall out of the quarterhorses. It was very exciting and really cool to see how the races worked, i even learned a few betting tricks along the way.


This is our star palamino boy, Chickie, getting pumped up for his races. He's such a stud, and he even won just about 5,000 dollars for his trials, we'd like to thank him for our lobster meal that night.

Throughout this trip i learned a lot of things about horseraces. Oh and as you can tell by the picture above, there was a great tailwind(evidence that i learned horse talk) on the track, and i also learned that for two dollars more you can box your bets and could possibly win yourself $450, if only we would have known that five minutes earlier...

The most exciting, and creative time of our trip was the eight hour drive down there. But we kept ourselves busy by...drawing cartoons...listening to Bennie and the Jets by Elton John one too many times...playing twenty questions about anything and everything...and we even managed to meet a few boys....everytime we stopped the car. ...Our hotel had very nice decorations around the outside...it really took Paige a long time to notice that there was a bear statue, and it wasn't a pig no matter what the nose looks like...

Aside from the horse races, we found a lot of other things to do in Farmington. After a long search we found there MALL!!! Lucky us, there was huge sales throughout the whole place. We also went and saw a lot of tourist spots, some famous restaurants, and tried to enjoy the whole ten minutes of sunny weather we got to experience.

On our way home, we stopped in Moab to check out the Hole in the Rock house. It was actually a really cool spot. We didn't actually go inside the house, but around the outside there were lots of little decorations and funny statues around, there was even a petting zoo with ostriches, wallabees, and donkeys. Somehow we didn't end up getting pictures of anything too interesting...except the old gas pump...

All in all the trip was really fun, and they are even going back this weekend for the finals, so wish Chickie luck!............on a side note, I would also like everyone to know my driving skills are not as frightening as led on from previous posts thank you!