Doodle Room: Second Day at Sweet Grass Ranch

July 10th, 2012

Howdy!

After a tiring day yesterday, I was thankful that I only had to wake up at 7:00 today. That’s still way earlier then I when I wake up at home. Oh well, to fit all the amazing activities we do here, I guess you have to wake up early.

Today was a special day because… we were going on an all-day ride to the water slide!!! Sweet!!! Before we could get to the rock water slide, we had to first do some cattle work.

After we got on and were ready to go, we rode up a ridge to look for some cows. With a little bush waking, we had found and herded most cows through the gate. Brianna, Connor (Page and Pat’s son), a few other guests and I went looking for any stray cows. We ended up sort of lost on the hillside. Luckily, we found a wrangler and headed back to join the rest of the group. Finally, we started up the steep path to the waterslide.

As soon as we arrived at the water slide and after the horses had been tied to the trees, we had lunch. It definitely wasn’t the best lunch I’ve ever had but it wasn’t too bad.

And then, it was time for some super fun sliding!! All the kids went down the slide but only one grownup was brave enough to go down too. I only went down once but it was pretty fun…and a little bumpy.

The ride back to the ranch was much quicker and had nicer scenery. It was more enjoyable then the steep ride there, even though I was a little wet. Soon, I was going to be more than a little wet.

Upon arriving back at the ranch, Paige, Brianna, Jake (10 years old, Ben’s brother), Ben (8 years old, Jake’s brother), Connor and I all headed straight for the creek, carrying black inflatable tubes. The water was the same temperature as yesterday, super super cold, but that didn’t stop us. We formed a “Flotilla” (all of the floats tied together) and jumped into the raging water. We had so much fun; we stayed at the creek for almost two hours! One time, Paige, Brianna, Connor and I floated really far down the river and had to climb up a hill to get back!!! We all had such and good time!!!

Once we froze ourselves enough, we went back to our separate cabins and all took really long, warm showers.

After my warm shower, I met Brianna down by her cabin and we practiced roping a fake cow. I am so bad at roping!!!

Then, it was time for dinner.

Even after supper the fun never stopped!!!

We continued to rope the cow until someone said we should play capture the rope instead! We ran and laughed our heads off until the wind started to pick up and our parents called us inside. A huge storm swept up and then was over just like that. A beautiful rainbow formed and we ran back outside to play some more games. Soon it grew too dark and we grew too tired to continue. Yawning, we headed to our respected cabins for a good night’s sleep.

Yawn, what a busy day!

Goodnight!

Camilla