{"id":567,"date":"2009-06-30T00:17:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T04:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2009-06-30T00:17:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T04:17:04","slug":"giddy-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/567","title":{"rendered":"Giddy-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b9d808b3127ccec72fcce76f6800000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taken Sunday morning, from our balcony&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re having such fun here, and taking full advantage of the 5 full days we have.\u00c2\u00a0 On Sunday, we started our day at Banner Elk Stables.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b9d808b3127ccec72ee5a10fee00000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This place had dogs and cats EVERYWHERE!\u00c2\u00a0 The kids loved that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b9d808b3127ccec72e01b08ebd00000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Abbey<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b9d808b3127ccec72ff152ae6b00000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the back, Marley, other rider, Ethan, Payton, and guide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b9d808b3127ccec72f772fae5500000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kinda fuzzy, but here is Randy and Lainey.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever tried riding a horse and taking pictures at the same time?\u00c2\u00a0 Ain&#8217;t easy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b9d808b3127ccec72fcffe2fe800000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Digger, my horse.\u00c2\u00a0 He was a hungry thing, stopping every now and again for a quick\u00c2\u00a0 bite.\u00c2\u00a0 This picture is the only somewhat proof that I was riding!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b9d808b3127ccec72fbc2ceeab00000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Better shot of Randy and Lainey&#8230;and, their horse Charlie.\u00c2\u00a0 Payton&#8217;s horse was Walter (my dad has always wanted a dog named Walter&#8230;), Marley&#8217;s was Tootsie (my grandmom used to call ME Tootsie&#8230;), EJ&#8217;s was Kidd, and Abbey&#8217;s was Ginger.\u00c2\u00a0 I know you were dying for the names of the horses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/media\/47b9d808b3127ccec72f299eaecb00000040O08AYt2bRu1cswe3nwE\/cC\/f%3D0\/ps%3D50\/r%3D0\/rx%3D550\/ry%3D400\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Horse riding was fantastic&#8230;it was so relaxing to just meander through woods and up and down hills with the breeze blowing.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone loved it!<\/p>\n<p>Today, we went to Grandfather Mountain and did some serious climbing&#8230;pics tomorrow :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken Sunday morning, from our balcony&#8230; We&#8217;re having such fun here, and taking full advantage of the 5 full days we have.\u00c2\u00a0 On Sunday, we started our day at Banner Elk Stables. This place had dogs and cats EVERYWHERE!\u00c2\u00a0 The kids loved that. Abbey From the back, Marley, other rider, Ethan, Payton, and guide. Kinda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trips-vacations","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}