Horse Camp

This isn't a blog challenge post, but I thought I'd share a little of what I've been doing this week in hopes it might bring a few laughs to your day! The therapeutic riding center where I work hosts an able-bodied day camp for a week during the summer. Somehow, they've decided to put me (mostly) in charge of it, which is both amazing and terrifying.

Here are some highlights of the week so far:

• The fattest, slowest therapy horse in the barn transformed into a super forward hunter type once he had a bit in his mouth. Seriously, y'all, I can't persuade this horse to trot to save his life when he has a special needs rider on his back, but stick an able-bodied kid on him and turn him loose and it's like he's aiming for the Maclay! (Hilarious, because he's a fat pinto horse; not hilarious because he terrifies the children.)
• One of the boys in my group is ten years old and knows all the words to "Don't Stop Believin'". He also asked me if I was "letting [my] hair go" and if Johnny was looking forward to the cake tasting part of wedding planning. ???
• While swimming, the kids latched onto me in the pool, demanding I tow them around like a train. It doesn't matter how often I nearly drown; they are intent to continuing the train.
• You can teach kids how to bridle a horse a hundred times; this is totally irrelevant unless they can actually reach the horse's head.
• No matter how many times you tell a child "Brutus doesn't need any more hay; he'll get some with his dinner," Brutus will get at least six times more hay than usual. 

I am having so much fun with summer camp, despite some of the weirdness and mishaps! Have y'all ever done a summer camp? Love it? Hate it?