Reid Ranch

We took our biannual trip to Reid Ranch for Daniel's family reunion.  We were so busy there visiting and having fun that we hardly got any pictures.  So I am just posting the few pictures we actually took.

Ainsley's favorite thing by far was riding the ponies.  Lucky for her when we arrived - there was no one waiting in line, so she got to ride over and over again.  She got to pick whichever pony she wanted and kept switching til she rode them all.

This employee above was the nicest guy.  He talked to Ainsley the whole time, asking her questions and just engaging her in real conversation.  And when Ainsley wanted to ride a full size horse, he found her a real gentle one and walked her around on it.  That is definitely going the extra mile.

Piper on the other hand - didn't dig the pony riding so much.  She tolerated it one time around and then that was enough.

Lucky for all of us - Reid ranch has a small lake.  They have canoes, row boats and paddle boats that you can sign up to do and you can also fish on it.  When we were there two years ago, Daniel didn't catch one fish.  Our brother-in-law Keith did and the picture of him and his large fish adorn the cafeteria wall at Reid Ranch.  Daniel wanted to get up on that wall sooo bad.

He spent a good amount of time fishing.  He took anybody that wanted to go.  He often asked the kids and I if we wanted to go for a boat ride because that meant of course that he could get some fishing out of it.  He even took our poor 4 year old nephew at the crack of dawn.  But I think Isaak totally loved it.  The best part was - they actually caught some fish.

I think that pole is about 3 times as big as he is.

And guess what?  Dan's picture finally adorns that cafeteria wall!  What a pretty trout!!   (we'll ignore the blood dripping out from between Daniel's fingers, poor fishy)