Yesterday, we took Ella back to Van Saun Park to ride the ponies. There was a long line and Ella was pretty great about waiting for her turn. It was finally her turn and there were teenagers leading the horses. Ella had one teenager leading the horse and one who was supposed to be holding her. Ella was riding around the little track, having a great time , very excited and then all of a sudden, the horse stopped walking. That was fine, they were just hanging out and waiting for the horse to start again. When he didn’t start, the teenager who was leading the horse started to pull the horse. The one who was supposed to be holding Ella was holding her by her shirt. All of a sudden, the horse ran forward and Ella went flying off and landed on her face. The teenager screamed, Ella cried and they just did nothing. Then Sunny ran over and picked up Ella and hugged her, made sure she was ok, got the dirt out of her mouth and passed her over to me. Then Sunny “took care” of the idiots who were running the pony rides. Ella was fine – pretty shaken up – one of the guys bought Ella an ice cream and asked if she would like to go on another pony. Ella actually said yes but also said, “Only if mommy and mama come and I don’t want to fall off”. We took her to a private part of the park and she did a great job. After the big adventure, Ella came home and took a 3 hour nap. After the nap, Ella went to Fireman’s Park with grandma and papa and played hard. Sunny and I went into NY, had dinner with Nikki B and went to hear AJ sing. It was a beautiful night.
This is the first horse, Coco…the one Ella was flung from.
Here we are with Donut – the good ride
Petting Donut and thanking her for a good ride
Ella about to hang from the bar and go down the slide
Papa pushing Ella on the swing
Ella and papa playing the ball game…”I got it, I got it”
Back at home taking inventory on empty water bottles