Jemima's blog on the journey so far

El  Puesto - By Jemima

El  Puesto is amazing,  Maximo is so caring and gives you all his attention.

Max & me

Me leading Mummy & Daddy's horses

Me on La Colorada

I think Colorada is my FAVOURITE horse I have ever ridden. I love her. And I said to Mummy;” this is exactly the type of horse I want.  

Colorada is so comfy when she is cantering but also walking and trotting. Maximo and I always go riding in the evening together and I push Colorada as fast as she can go. I galloped twice -  I LOVED IT.

me cantering to the ball

Maximo taught  me how to play polo. It was really fun. The first couple of times I missed the ball but then I got the hang of it. I would love to play it in England but Mummy says it is very expensive. 

Me with Max and his old car

Maximo once came in his old fashioned car to collect us from the beach, a few hundred metres from the house.  It was made in 1928. Daddy says it was about the first car that came out.  They put sand on the beach and put a few deckchairs out. They had a swimming pool about three metres wide and which came up to my waist - great to play Marco Polo in.

Cordie,  Mummy is always using the Learning Spanish book you gave me for my Birthday !!!!!  Hah Ha.

Pampa Grande - By Jemima

Mummy, Daddy and I have been in Pampa Grande for 2 days.  We started on really bad horses. They keep some of these horses because most of the guests are really bad riders. So we have much better horses now. And Lorito (my horse) has got the smoothest canter I have ever had. You put the reins forward and he canters Its AMAZING!!!!!!!!!  Phia (In 4JPU) you would love it.

Me on Lorito (Little Parrot)

Mummy, Daddy and me

Ok 

Me at flat out gallop at right 












So, Mummy and daddy ask for no pudding after lunch (Daddy because he is diabetic) But I do. So I get my pudding after lunch and they devour my pudding. So I say; “ I thought you asked for no pudding”. We have to cut out  sugar otherwise we are going to get fat quickly. But the puddings are basically a bowl of sugar. Once I found a beetle in the Dulce De Leche  - it was about 2 inches long and there are loads of them.  We call them Doodle-Bugs. It flies like a motor bike but doesn’t know were it is going.  The reason I spotted it was because I saw a bubble in the big bowl of Dulce De Leche - which by the way it is a type of soft toffee which is so bad for you. Once a beetle landed in Mummy’s cleavage. 

A "Doodlebug"

She had just told me to stop screaming so she tried not to scream herself. She said; ”If you scream one more time you are going to bed. It is so rude”!!!!!! So it landed and she screamed so loudly I said MUMMY YOU ARE GOING STRAGHT TO BED But I found it hard to say this because I was in fits of giggles. Mummy said she had never seen me laugh so much. I was giggling so much it was hard to say it is giggling it was a whole-hearted laugh. It was also so loud… we couldn’t stop laughing for the next 15 min…!!!

There are loads of frogs here, which frighten the life out of me, even though I love them. They are really big and some of them are toads. One night I was walking to the door and the curtain moved and there was a frog that jumped out it gave me such a fright!!!!!


          

                                  

me In Pampa Grande

Me Gabriella and Rocio

Gabriella and Rocio

Gabriella and Rocio always travel together with Gabriella leading. They come and ask us about riding and what we are planning. Rocio has been here for 4 months,  I thought she had been here for a couple of years. Gabriella has been here for 9 YEARS which is a lot.!!! They are both very nice and are here most of the time. They get everything organised riding wise with Sebastian and Carlos. But they do with everything as well…

Sebastian & Carlos

                         Sebastian and Carlos

Sebastian is a little bit new but Carlos has been here for many years. He is showing Sebastian a couple of new rides but Sebastian already knows a lot… Sebastian takes me by myself sometimes and I like it. Sometimes I get a little bit scared that we are never going to arrive back at the ranch again.(He doesn’t speak any English).






Once local children came up to me and said( in Spanish) do you want to play with us?  I was nervous because I had never played with them before. We played hand stands and cart wheels, which was quite boring. They laughed at me a lot because we couldn't understand each other. They are very poor and their toys are very simple. It made me realise how lucky I am and how lucky we are. Once "I said lets look for animals", I had Rocio  as a translator and she said lets play animals because I had asked her to. It was really fun. We tried to catch butterflies and we caught 2 butterflies But by mistake let them go. .

me and the local kids