Well...good and bad. We had a good ride. The weather was nice, cooler and less humid, but I hadn't been on that particular trail in a while and there were trees down in the trail that we had to go around. We were going through some pretty thick little saplings and Blade was trying to eat the leaves and wasn't paying attention to where he was going and he hung her right leg on a sapling and drug her off. I was in front on Bluebell and heard a commotion and when I looked around, she was just getting up off the ground. It didn't hurt her at all, just her pride. She got back on and did fine the rest of the afternoon. On their way home, they decided to stop off at another horse campground and spend the night and ride by themselves on Sunday. She said he did just fine on Saturday evening in the stall they rented for him, and did great on Sunday out on the trails. They even used him to lead their other horse to go places he didn't want to go. So all in all, I think she's pleased with him, even if he has dumped her a couple of times in a week. But in all fairness to him, he didn't dump her this time, she fell off. He just doesn't know to allow room for a rider's legs yet. If you pay attention and give him a little leg pressure on the side as you get close to a tree, he'll move over for ya, but you've got to remember to tell him. They've just got some getting used to each other to do.
I was really pleased with Bluebell too. We went through some pretty hairy places and she did just fine. She didn't much like the first ditch we came to that she had to step across, but after a few seconds of argueing about it, went across just fine and hardly stopped at all over the next one. She was fine going through the saplings when we had to get off the trail, although she didn't like the sound of them raking the sides of the saddle bags I put on her. We finally got to a place where the trees were blocking the trail and we couldn't get around them because there was a cliff on one side and a dropoff on the other and we had to turn around and go back. We ended up riding 8 or 10 miles as it was, but she's still not in real good shape, so that was fine. I forgot the camera or I would've had pictures.
~shakes her head in disappointment.~
We just got back from our trail ride... pics, of course, are uploading!