Sure, I'm interested in buying a Racehorse

We have had such a great day!

I reverted back to my pre-kid days and crashed a 'fancy horse-buying' event, all because it advertised "free food and pony rides for the kids".

I had heard all about an opening day for a new business that allowed you to buy shares in race horses. They were having a big get together to no doubt get prospective buyers in and hopefully spend up big. Now we went with absolutely no intentions of purchasing a race horse, but the lure of seeing Grace riding a pony was enough for me to at least pretend that, A) we had the cash to do it & B)if we had said cash, yes of course we would pour it into horses.

So we threw on our most expensive threads & jewellery (great opportunity to drag out the Rolex) & headed into the hinterland ready to check out the horse talent.

The setting was beautiful. It was located in a gorgeous lush valley, with horses as far as you could see. The horses were stunning, and after seeing them I seriously did think about pouring all my money into them.

We talked and patted some of the horses in the paddocks. One of the cheeky things even tried to steal Xavier's sandwich as he was munching on it in his pram.

Grace then lined up for her pony ride. She was confidant but I was a little scared for her it was a huge pony, it's back came up to my shoulders. Grace loved every bit of walking around the "horse buyers" perched up on the pony. I nearly asked about purchasing shares in the pony, but thought that might out me as a non-potential buyer.

There was a fantastic playground set up for the kids. Grace played on the monkey bars and slide, whilst Xavier crawled around the bottom munching on leaves and grass. He had a few goes on the slide and loved every minute of it.

We even got a beautiful big BBQ lunch to enjoy. There were sausages, hamburgers, steak, salads and bread rolls. There were eskies laden full of beer, soft drink and wine for anyone to get what they wanted. We were not even asked about if we were interested in buying shares, everyone was pretty much just left to enjoy themselves.

It really was a beautiful setting, surrounded by mountains and horses. The wind was very chilly though, it was actually the coldest day on the coast this year. Lucky there was hot tea & coffee to keep us warm!

So after we were full of food, had fun on the swings and patted all the horses we headed home for a snooze.

It was a beautiful (cheap) day out and no doubt I will be scouring the paper for anything like that happening again.