Oslo Horse Show

First: Welcome Laura as a new follower!

Life has been busy lately, so there has not been much time neither to read or comment on blogs, nor write on my own.

This weekend my daugher and I visited Oslo Horse Show together with friends, and on Friday night us adults went to an Italian restaurant.

We had such a good time - my favourite combination: good food and wine, plus horse loving friends!
Lovely.

Some pictures from the show:

To the price ceremony, they used a true Norwegian equipage with four Fjords, and with the price awarders dressed up in "bunad", traditional dresses from old times.
Looked very stylish.

When they had the lap of honour, the carriage was standing in one of the corners looking Very Spooky.
The audience got some extra entertainment when the winning horses were passing...

Now, please look at the picture below.

This rider and her horse brought tears to my eyes.

Camilla (11) and her mother were involved in a car acccident.

Her mother died, and Camilla was very close to.

The pressure in her skull after the accident was too large. She was kept in coma, and was through seven brain surgeries. In the end the surgeons had to make a drastic action; they removed a part of the left side of the skull to keep her alive. Her father was told that she probably would survive, but they were not sure whether she would come back to normal.

Her skull was partially replaced with plastic.

Coming back to consciousness, she could not talk, and could only move her eyelids.

She spent 270 days in hospital and rehabilitation, all the time longing for, and after a while also talking of, her pony Laddy.

She had pictures of Laddy all over her room at the hospital, and everyone in the hospital staff taking care of her knew the name of her horse.

After very hard and dedicated work she is now almost back to normal, and the strongest motivation was to be able to ride Laddy again.

Camilla, now 14, had a dream to ride her horse at Oslo Horse Show.

On Saturday she did.

50 of the hospital staff were there watching, and I don't think my eyes were the only ones that were moist.

After both a family show, dressage and show jumping classes, Saturday's show ended with puissance.

Nothing for my nerves, and I am not comfortable with asking the horses to jump so high either.

They managed to get it up to 2.10 before ending.

Crazy.