Arrival at the Kentucky Horse Park - July 23

We finally arrived today at the park! It is very, very hot and humid. Today was a super short travel day since it only took us just over three hours to get from Indianapolis to the park, which is just outside of Lexington. As Janine said "we travelled through 3 states in 10 minutes today". We left Indiana to quickly jog around Cincinnati in Ohio, and then into Kentucky. Some of the biggest highways we have ever driven on are on the detour around Cincinnati! Luckily, these highways were flowing smoothly this year and not parking lots like they were last year. So much traffic though. It really is incredible to see 12 - 16 lanes of traffic filled with cars going 75 miles an hour!

Our quick trip through the state of Ohio took us over the gigantic Ohio river and this spectacular bridge!

We were met by Monica Houwelling (B.C. Junior), Erika Urff (Our team!), Megan Lane (Ontario Junior) and Esmee Ingram (B.C. Junior). They have already done a good job of decorating most of the stalls in Canadian paraphanalia! I will make sure to take pictures of this once the decorating is complete!

We are staying in the living quarters of our horse trailer at the Kentucky Horse Park. It is a short (but not short enough!) bike ride to the stables from our trailer and the camp ground is really nice. Monica and her mother are also camping and we spent the evening with the rest of the westerners at their campsite.

Some of the classic white fences at the Horse Park

I will be riding Olso first thing tomorrow morning since it is supposed to be 35 degrees Celcius tomorrow again. I hope to be on around 7 o'clock, 5 o'clock at home! Tomorrow will only be a stretchy ride and lots of hacking to help get him used to the facility. He has already been very looky and a bit nervous due to all the stuff going on here. He is in his paddock for the night though and he seems to be settled in there. He isn't a fan of the stall right now, but I am hoping he will appreciate it tomorrow afternoon!

I better be off to bed now if I even have a chance of being up early enough tomorrow!
More pictures and comments to come tomorrow. Good night for now =)