A Rallye in the rain

It hasn't rained here for weeks, so of course because we were off to do a rallye today (an organised ride followed by a slap up meal) the heavens opened, naturally....

Team Horsetales wasn't too bothered at the start....

....but it rained and rained, and the girls were cold and miserable by the time we got to the casse croute.

Think they've gone native, no Stiff Upper Lip in sight. I quite liked it, reminded me of my childhood, riding in the rain......
Anyway, with some food and drink on board, they perked up. We got overtaken by a vintage car rally

and rode up some great (if somewhat muddy) tracks

Choccy rolled in (and ate) some choice brown stuff, and ran through lots of puddles.....

in fact by the end of the ride, you couldn't really see her hi viz vest. Then it was back to base for the meal, which was fabulous

and a spot of line dancing, the SNO was quite keen on this.....!

So a great day out, thanks to our friends Jo and Stewart and the Association PINCE who organised it.

Our first "rallye"......

Tanya and I took the boys for a lovely day out today, despite the terrible weather forecast we didn't even get wet!


There was a 21km or a 28km ride, we did the 21, but had to cheat (luckily they gave us a map) as having been overtaken by everyone we realised if we didn't cut a few corners we'd never get home !!

Chester was a very good boy, the first couple of times people went past he was keen to follow them, but after that he realised that wasn't allowed and soon settled down.

Some pics:

Loads more pictures here.
 
We did a fair bit of trotting and even had a bit of a canter (but I had to stop and go back as my hip flask fell out of my pocket!), Ches was very good and stopped when I wanted him to and even stood still for me to get back on!




So it was a great outing for our first "rallye", hopefully the first of many.....