Thats An Adventure... For Sure.

Its not a real horse show without an adventure, right? RIGHT. So, my truck decided to leave us stranded at a gas station 30 minutes from Poplar, with two horses in tow. Thankfully, my trainer was able to pick us up & the horses so we made it to Poplar! My Mom took the truck & had our gas mileage device unplugged because everyone thought that was what our problem was. WRONG. I'll get to that in a second... Anyway, Dargenzio was awesome cross country schooling on Friday night & went over everything well. We had an icky dressage test which we scored a 41.9 (?) on but we redeemed ourselves in show jumping, where we had a double clean round! Everything was MAX height, & we even had a TWO STRIDE. Are those even legal in Beginner Novice? I honestly don't think so, but whatever... We school them at home so it wasn't a big deal... for me at least. Dargenzio decided to jump in like an idiot, so it just made the whole thing like poop. Good thing he is careful(: Dargenzio zoomed around cross country like a champ, with one measly stop which was all my fault. I came unbalanced through the water since Dargenzio felt the need to leap in & out of it, & I couldn't find my balance as we came up to the squid. He wanted to go, but didn't because I wasn't with him. He literally came right up to the base of the fence, ears forward, & then just kinda stopped because he couldn't go. It wasn't dirty & he knew he wanted to do it, & I did too. Anyway, all of the other parts of our course were great! Time was easy to make & we came in right under optimum. Dargenzio didn't even think about stopping at anything else & he even had his first gallop through the woods(; Pony man was great & he came back to the barn, to a liniment bath & poultice! So, we get on the road to go home & our truck decides to completely DIE about 30 minutes away from Poplar... this time, on the side of a three lane (busy) highway. Thanks to technology (Facebook), we had three wonderful people come pick up the trailer & horses that were in it! Thank you to Ms. Mikki, Aidan & Lily for coming to the rescue! They were at USPC camp, which was held at Poplar, & were able to leave so they could come to our rescue! Now, it was time to find a way to get back to Florida...? How are we supposed to do that? We know all of five or so people with a truck that could pull our trailer, & all of those five people were having problems with their trucks as well (or were busy). My Uncle ended up coming to get us & I'm very thankful that he did. We got home about 3 hours ago & the ponies are happy to be out of crammed stalls & to finally get to graze. Now for even more of a fun part, I came home & opened up my feed bin to mix feed... to find that we are almost completely out of feed. So, my horses ate maybe 1/2 of what they normally would get & are just getting Beet Pulp for breakfast tomorrow. My awesome feed store lady is going to meet us at her store tomorrow, since they're normally closed on Mondays. Welp, my truck is stuck in Georgia... where we will have to get it if its not going to cost a ton of money to fix. If its going to cost quite a bit, we will be on the hunt for a new truck which we oh so desperately need but its really not in our budget right now since we are taking Dargenzio to so many shows, lessons, etc. as I would love to have him running Novice by the end of the year. But I mean, we won't be taking him anywhere unless our truck gets fixed or we get a new one. So, hopefully this fix will be easy & cheap. All I can do is hope. I highly doubt I will be doing my trainer's Summer camp or the Chatt Hills Summer Series which I wanted to do so badly.