Chasing Rainbows

Mornin' y'all!  I'm going to type fast so I can finish this before it's time to take Ryan to farm camp.  So, behold!

CAS on Friday wants to see rainbow cards, and I paired that with the AAA Cards Challenge sketch:

I remembered I had several DSP rainbows and clouds already cut from the Sunshine & Rainbows DSP Stack so combining these two challenges was easy peasy.  And then, even though I'm playing in two clean and simple challenges, I couldn't resist adding some sequins:

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rainbow of Happiness
Ink:  Bermuda Bay
Paper:  Lemon Lolly, Sunshine & Rainbows DSP Stack
Accessories:  Starburst Sequins

And now I have just a few pictures from our trip last week, starting with this black bear:

She hustled her two cubs across the street and up into the trees so fast that this was the best picture I got.  So last Wednesday morning, we got up early and headed back to the north side of the park and then crossed into Montana...

And we went horseback riding!  Ryan was kinda nervous when he got up on his horse so he asked for a helmet.

Ryan is on Rimrock, the hubs is on Tabletop.  And my horse was probably at least a hand taller than either of theirs, I have no idea how they assigned the horses.

My horse, Anchor, is a Quarter Horse - Clydesdale cross who liked to try to snack on the grass as we went and would kinda give a big sigh every time we started moving.  The countryside was GORGEOUS and we saw a small herd of female elk while we were out.  Hard to take pictures while on horseback though.

And here's Ryan at the end of the ride, he said he had a good time and wants to do this again.  Yesss!

Me and Anchor : )

After our ride, we walked down to another paddock and got to meet this mama and her two-week-old baby.  She's a Belgian (a draft horse, but smaller than like the Budweiser Clydesdales) and her baby is another Quarter Horse cross.

I think she also does horsey shampoo commercials.

After the ride, we had some time to explore the small town of Gardiner a bit (we bought souvenirs), and then we went for a two-hour float down the river.

Don't ask me the name of the river, I don't remember.

Ryan really wanted this to be a white water rafting thing, but we had a little 3-year-old girl in the front and we didn't want to scare her, so mostly we just floated.  Plus, since this was our first time doing anything of this nature, I wanted to start on the easy level ; ) and I tend to get motion sick on boats, so I was happy with a tame float.  My kid is an adrenaline junkie though.

And after we got back, we got ice cream.  Because we were on vacation.  Cheers!