THEY MADE IT..........!!!

Not without a couple of crisis', what would a trip be without those..........LOL  

I'm not exactly sure who this is, BUT I can identify what the problem is.  LOL  This was after their stop for the night in New Mexico.  Obviously one of the humans didn't see a problem with putting the cookie jar "almost" within reach...but not quite.  If the rails were farther apart, I can guess what would have happened to the cookie jar.....!! LOL

We knew they got a later start than planned and also knew they had stopped more frequently than usual and assumed it was to make sure Quilla was riding OK.

After it was all over we got the plain story without frills.  It seems when they were loading donkeys and only had 2 to go, Coquette managed to get her foot caught in one of the openings on the side of the trailer.  

There aren't any pictures of her laying in the trailer with her foot hung up, because their 1st thought was to get her out not take a picture to share............!!!  That is the saw-all and there is the opening in the trailer Lynn cut to get her foot out.  They said she popped up. and has a small scrape/cut and seemed none the worse for wear.  

So they watched her for awhile, talked about not taking her, but she seemed fine, so they finally took off, and stopped many times to check on her.  I'm sure she would have hated to miss the trip, especially now that she's there.............LOL

So they are driving along minding their own business in New Mexico and Lynn got pulled over by the state police, at least I think that's who it was.  Linda was out of sight ahead, and she had all the paperwork which is what they were interested in.  She had to turn around and come back to where they were.  Then they got to match up donkeys in 2 trailers with paperwork............BUT......it all matched, I'm sure that was disappointing, although Linda said the 2 guys were very nice.  

Just hanging out with the locals, notice the emblem on the open door of the vehicle behind Linda. 

Linda asked them what would have happened if they hadn't had the paperwork, they said $1,000 fine per animal.........or $15,000 for their 2 loads.........!!! YIKES, they are serious about this don't drive in our state without paperwork business...........!!!  We've always heard about confiscating trucks and trailers, and all sorts of other charges incurred while you get the paperwork straightened out, so don't cross state lines with equine and no paperwork........!!! LOL

We were worried about the weather in Colorado, but I guess it was all east of where they were driving.  

I'm guessing this is right after they got out of the trailers, when they got there.

I would imagine they were all ready to get out of the trailers and explore.  Wonder if the ones that went last year remember being there?  Linda said they are really enjoying all the pasture grass and weeds, said they aren't even interested in animal crackers, which is amazing.

Linda said Coquette has bonded with Frijolita.  Here Coquette hung out with Penny, we wondered how splitting them would work.  Penny doesn't really care. 

 

Turbo doesn't want Frijolita to go I guess

Hiding out in the trees.....!!

Another guess, next morning perhaps after they had a chance to rest their legs

Here's some of the boys, Levi, Loki, Boaz and Buddy Brat.  Levi and Buddy haven't been to Colorado before.  Boaz was there in 2017, but didn't go last year.  

Lynn and Linda and some of the donkeys are racing tomorrow and Sunday, I'm pretty sure Georgette's Sugar and Jacque are going and Justin, but I'll have to wait until Linda tells me for sure who is racing Sunday.  These are 2 short races, it will be fun to see how Sugar and Jacque do, they both seem to be pretty competitive.