The Longines FEI World Cup finals are getting ready to start on Wednesday, although the actual competition doesn't start until Friday...I'm not going to be there more than likely. Not unless I can figure out some way to get my mom to "allow" me to go. I was telling her about it when I got home from work and she said "And you want to go..." I told her they never have competitions of this magnitude in this area of the country. I said I wanted to go but "My mom won't let me." and she laughed. In all seriousness, though, I know I could go if I really want to. And I want to, but I don't know if I want to spend the money to go. I just worked 2 Saturdays doing OT at work to build up my bank account and I don't want to blow it all in one overnight trip to Las Vegas.
So, what are my options...? It doesn't appear as though any of it will be broadcast on TV...not in the US anyway. On the World Cup's Facebook page someone asked if anything was going to be broadcast and I replied to her comment with one of my own. Well, today they confirmed it would streamed live on 3 different websites for a fee, which sucks, but I can deal with that. So I followed a link to the apps you need to watch the live stream and guess what? My Samsung Tab 4 is NOT compatible with the app. So now I'm trying to charge my iPad mini to see if that will work because the website says the app is also iOS compatible. Unfortunately, I haven't used it in awhile and so the battery was completely drained. Hopefully it will w
ork. If I'm unable to watch it online...then I guess I'll go back to trying to decide if I want to just go to Vegas.
Early Saturday 40 horses left the airport in the Netherlands, bound for Las Vegas. Because of time zones and such, they arrived less than 2 hours after they left Europe. Can you say Jet Lag? And while Totilas won't be there, his former rider Edward Gal will be. Good luck to everyone! I will, of course, be cheering for Steffen Peters to win Dressage and several riders for Show Jumping. Hahahaha.
Before I go I will leave you with some pictures of the European horses during their travels. Tomorrow or Wednesday I'll share some photos of the US riders.
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| Getting ready for the flight... |
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| Loading into a special designed stall |
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| Convoy of jet stalls. Wouldn't this be neat to see? |
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| Inside the Boeing 777...empty |
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| Loading the transport stalls |
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| Trailers waiting at McCarron for the horses |
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| Valegro, aka Blueberry, from Carl Hester Dressage is sprung from quarrantine today by his groom Alan C Davies. |
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