Ok I’m back! Lots of fun was had but man am I glad we decided to go horse riding on the second last day instead of earlier on, otherwise it may have been a very different story.

Initially I was all… meh horses… why is it girls are always so smitten with them? (gross generalisation there but what the hey) But the Wifey was all excited about going so off we went. There was a choice of 30min, 2hr and 3hr rides and we both agreed 30min probably wouldn’t be enough so we went with the 2hr one instead… and I’ll be honest. Once the guide let me off the lead and let me do the steering and stuff it was actually really fun and I enjoyed the experience immensely. Although my horse was plainly a n00b horse as even off the lead it still preferred to follow the horse in front and flatly refused to go any faster than a slow walk for more than 20 seconds at a time. Except for one point when it realised it had fallen significantly behind (successfully ignoring my hup-hups and subtle kicks for a good minute or 2) and without any prompting (I had given up at this stage) sped up causing me to almost fall off. Heh… stoopid horse. All I can say is, Uber thigh grip for the win!

However… the main point I’d like to stress is, those saddles are hard… and I… well lets just say I’m not well padded. (I prefer the term wiry) Suffice it to say that while the 30min ride would have garnered far less enjoyment. The pain factor would, I believe, have been negligible in comparison to the agony we suffered afterward. Having said that, in retrospect the memory and the humorous anecdote make the whole “Horseriding” thing worthwhile. I highly recommend everyone try it…

And now I’m back and have only 2 weeks till my self imposed re-launch date for the comic. Hooray!… I think. Till then I have a couple of things to post from the sketchbook I took with me and I’ll Whip up another Ninja in my Pocket for you later in the week as well.

Thanks for hanging around, I’ll post some art for you this afternoon once I’ve caught up on all my regular webcomics.