Cali Mara, good morning, I believe this is one of my new favorite greeting at Greece. There seems to be a freshness when this is spoken, today is a good morning. I am riding on an amazing team,with amazing coaches, and an amazing horse in an amazing place, Greece whoa freeze! Greece I never thought I would be here ! As I prepare to compete this morning I pray that my ride would be glorifying to God. I also wish my grandmother could be here. She would have loved t...

Tonight/today, opening ceremony began at 8:30pm and we did not get back to our hotel rooms until 3:00 am. Yes you read right. 3:00 am. We never slept through the night. We got back to our room at three and then it was straight into he showers and by that time it was 4:00am we then depending on how long it took us to get showered and dressed in our riding clothes. To be matched with our horses that we had never met before without any sleep, sound fun yet? It cer...

Yoho ho and a ferry trip to athens. As you probably can tell from the small jingle. I didnt receive my land legs until this morning. I felt as Though I was wearing beer goggles. Weird!!!!! Today was not a day that was to talk about . Not much went on today. This is the day. Wake up at 9:00 am on the ferry which was crazy getting onto.So I wake up eat breakfast and then sleep a bit more. Play UNO, after UNO we eat lunch and then before we knew it it, we were in A...

Today is opening ceremonies the feelings of the hustle and bustle of preparing for the games are palpable in the air today. Today and tomorrow are going to be extremely long days. We are told that we are not going to be back to the hotel from opening ceremonies until 3 am. That is the earliest estimation of arrival. From the ceremonies we get to the hotel shower eat and head back to thebus for matching tomorrow. If you know of anyone who would like to donate yo...