Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show

On Thursday night I flew down to Scottsdale, Arizona to watch Preston show at the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show. Traveling there went well except my plane was delayed 40 minutes. When we finally landed I was so excited to see palm trees outside the window. Nicole picked me up from the airport and then she took me to the hotel to surprise Preston. He had NO idea that I would be flying down, so he was very confused to see me walk through the door. He was getting ready for bed so he didn't even have his contacts in. His mom said, "Well, look what the wind blew in!" Preston put his glasses on and had the most confused look on his face and kept saying "what? I don't understand.. How did you get here?" Anyway, he finally realized he wasn't dreaming and then he came over and gave me a big hug. It was so funny. The weather has been so amazing. Today it was between 75 and 80 degrees, and I got a sunburn!

The Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show is the largest Arabian show in the world. Below is a picture of a halter horse being shown.

Here is a picture of Nathan, Preston, Nicole, Vicky, and Dave all watching the evening classes of the show.
Here is Preston and I watching the show inside the big arena.
Here is a beautiful horse being shown in a halter class.
It is soooo sunny here! Haha I think this picture is so funny. We couldn't even see the camera screen outside after we took it because the sun was so bright. We had a good laugh when we saw it later that evening.
Here is a picture of Preston warming up his horse on Friday morning.
And here he is showing! Preston did so well. Ever day that he showed (Tuesday through Friday) he improved his reining score. Preston really has not had that much training time on his horse (Buckaroo) compared to a lot of the other competitors there.
Preston did not make it to the finals because the competition was just so tough, but he did get 3rd in a half-arab snaffle bit class!
Here is Nathan warming up a horse that a good friend of theirs owns. Nathan unfortunately zeroed on his first go around riding Top Gun for the Arabian futurity because his horse didn't slide stop when he asked him to. It was too bad because his horse was the talk of the show. He had one of the best horses there. The other trainers told him they were glad he didn't make it to the finals so they didn't have to compete against him.