Carriage Rides 2013

We went to the annual free carriage rides on Friday this year as my brother in law had taken the day off.  It was a LOT more busy than when we go on Thursday!  We waited for almost an hour and a half for a 6 minute ride!  But they are fun and free.

Peggy

Bill (we had him)

Waiting

My sister's family and my dad's turn 

Our turn

Carriage Ride 2012

It was time for the free horse and carriage rides again. They like to change it up once in awhile with the tops down or tops up. Last year, there were 3 carriages and this year it was back to 2. (Well, at first anyway!) This year, it was myself and my kids, my sister and her kids, and our mom & dad who went. Before, we've split into 2 groups that went at the same time in different carriages. This time, there were already 2 groups waiting for carriage #1 and 1 group waiting for carriage #2, so we decided to wait together for carriage #2. Half of us would ride first, followed by the other half the next time around. My sister and her kids and our mom got on the carriage and carriage #2 had a problem with the wheel, so they pulled it out of rotation and continued with just carriage #2. The poor horse pulling carriage #2 did NOT like that and was crying for her friend!

 

 

2011 Carriage Rides

Okay, so since I mentioned the carriage rides yesterday, I figured I'd best get on the ball and post the pictures!  My kids have done it enough times that they had started asking about when it was time for the carriage rides!  This year, my younger sister and 3 kids came along, so we had to "share" Grandpa and Grandma.  We got Grandma in our carriage and they got Grandpa ☺

This is the ride before us, but the carriage we rode

"Our" horse, Nemo

This is the carriage that my sister's family rode on

They had the top down this year

The kids really enjoyed looking at everything

This is my sister's family and dad's carriage

"Bye, Nemo"

2010 Carriage Ride

Thursday was the 1st time we could ride on the annual free horse and carriage ride in nearby Rockford.




This is a shot of the first riders coming around the final corner.



























Andrew liked the horses.














Andrew had a lot of fun watching the people in the hair stylist shop.











We got to ride in Gus' carriage. (Gus was the horse!)

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The 2nd carriage horse kept coming next to us and Andrew kept waving at him.

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Saying hi to Gus after our ride.

Carriage Ride 2008

It is time for the free carriage rides again.





Our horse Gus.












Dan and Sarah

Emily, William, and me

Carriage Ride

The town next to ours always does free carriage rides during the Christmas season. You go and sign up and wait your turn. Last year was the first the girls and I had done it and this year was Dan's first time.






All bundled up and ready to go!













Here are Dan and I with Emily and William.













Here are Grandpa, Grandma, and Sarah.

Here is "our" horse "Charlie"

The girls are visiting with the horse.