Horseball

I watched my first ever horseball match today. Quite an interesting sport. Cavalaire has a nice sized equestrian center with several stables and trails and also courts for horseball. Horseball is a sport that is played on a relatively small field of sand. The players pass a soccer ball that has leather straps encompassing it (the ball looks as though it is in a cage) and try to score in the hoops at the end of each field. When the ball falls on the ground the players have to lean off the horse to pick it up. They must all have KILLER abs. From what I deduced players have a time limit for holding the ball. It was very exciting to watch. I'd never seen anything quite like it. The players would also really fight the other players for the ball, all while on horseback. It really made me want to go ride some trails. I haven't been on a horse in quite some time.

We had a half day at school Thursday thanks to the teachers' conference. Cara and I decided it would be fun to dye our hair; something we'd been talking about since almost the beginning of the year. She decided on chataigne (chestnut), and I went with the slightly redder tinted acajou (mahogany). After laughing and singing Wicked while trying not to stain the tiny European bathroom in dye, we both ended up with darker, slightly redder hair. I can happily say we used our half-day successfully.

Friday was a girls' night. Cara and I made her peanut butter-butterscotch chip cookies. Her mom brought rice crispies and butterscotch chips when they were here last week. Cara melted the butterscotch chips and peanut butter together on the stove; then we added in the rice crispies. After, we made spooned the dough onto trays that we put in the fridge. We waited until they chilled and hardened and then ate delicious cookies!! After our cookie making (and again belting out more Wicked) we decided to put the Veet leg hair removal cream to the test. We bought it with the hair dye to try out. Long story short, it doesn't work. We were mildly disappointed but had cookies to make up for it.

Lauren comes in 6 days!!