Tea and Mochi

It's coming up on nearly a year since I have changed my ID here on dA.
I wanted to do it nearly six months ago, or so, but anyway...

Here's the photo I've been wanting to use.

It was from my trip to Tucson, Az, in mid-April to see family.

I had taken my nieces Maria and Bonnie to an educational horseback riding ranch in the desert, for Maria's birthday. She turned 10, and Bonnie, is turning 8 at the end of October...

Here is a photo of Bonnie with her horse-for-the-day:


My horse's name was (and still is) Mochi, and she was wonderful... super calm and patient with me, since it had been quite some time since I had been horseback riding. Luckily, it didn't take me too long to "get back into the saddle" so to speak.
And we made a good team!

It was Bonnie's very first time.  She accidentally veered off-trail a couple times by herself in the desert, though rescued by our leader, she was a great sport about it, and had a super time!
She would periodically announce, "I'm a cowgirl!"

Both girls loved it, though Maria has been before, (but not to a place like this...)
and we all had such an awesome time!


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