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horse — Haha.

horse — What do horses like? Haaaaaaay!

horse — Matching flannels photo shoot!

horse — Ellen made fast friends.

horse — Such handsome!

horse — Hans hands horses hay.

horse — After squaring that away, we decided to spend the day exploring Manila around our hotel. Manila is not a pedestrian-friendly city so his was advanced-level stuff! We walked down Roxas Blvd to...

horse — ...while Meredith picked up a sweet truck-stop thank you gift for our dog-sitter. Haha.

horse — Teefs!

horse — ...Ellen stopped off to show us the stable where Emily works with horses!

horse — Nom, nom. Hay hair.

horse — Kiss?

horse — Muzzle rubbing.

horse — Mer saying hi.

horse — It turns out Ellen's animal whispering skills are not limited to chihuahuas!

horse — Klaus upon his steed one last time before we sent Junior back to the stable!

horse — Back outside for some founder photos!

horse — ...just a little sip of champagne!

horse — If you look closely you can see the duct tape we had to put over his hooves so he wouldn't chip the slate with his clomping around!

horse — Checking in, Mr. Ed?

horse — I see you've brought all your show ribbons!

horse — ...one of my favorite shots!

horse — Junior the horse arrives! Emily and Meredith out front of the hotel with him while we worked to get things set up for...

horse — After we finished out front, we brought Junior around into the side garden so I could shoot a bunch of close ups of the shirts.

horse — Good horses get...

horse — Rose horse.

horse — CLOUD STALLION!

horse — Impact!

horse — Even "pretend" jousting is pretty insane.

horse — After the meal had been served, the guy came out and asked if we were ready to see some JOUSTING.

horse — In between all the revelry of the knights, they had cool riding displays and horses jumping up in the air.

horse — The show was a little corny, but it's also really fun and the horse-riding skills were impressive. I have to say it was way more fun than I had imagined at the onset. (I'll bet this place is doing SO MUCH more business since Game of Thrones started airing.)

horse — ...and introduced their knight.

horse — Then the guy rode out on a horse and visited each of the sections...

horse — Hiding horse happiness.

horse — Neato.

horse — People coming down the beach on horseback.

horse — On Friday night I went over to Sarah's for dinner and I brought along the "Pasture Pals" Christmas present that Meredith had picked out for Ellen. Look at that smile! Can you tell how much she liked it?

horse — When the horse-racing game seems fun, you know that you've had too much to drink!

horse — Hafeez decided to try out the horse-racing game to win some tickets.

horse — You know, rode the horses outside of the Punjab Deli on the corner of 3rd and 2nd...

horse — On Thursday morning I headed over to the Metropolitan Museum to check out another Watson Adventure scavenger hunt.

horse — I'd been living in NYC for almost five years and this was only the second time I'd ever managed to make it to the Met (which is embarrassingly criminal). The "arms and armor" display there is one of the craziest things I've ever seen in a museum.

horse — Tom Mother-Effing Wheeler, yo.

horse — Homeward bound.

horse — Fatty opening the gate next to the hoofguard on the ride back home.

horse — Okay, I'm running out of things to say in these captions so just relax and enjoy the pics.

horse — Hahah.

horse — Grant in the sun.

horse — Gun slinger.

horse — Bearded cowboy.

horse — Fatty surveying his home on the range.

horse — Grant holding my horse for me while I dismounted to open the gate next to the hoof guard so that we could move on to a different area of the ranch.

horse — He's the Fatty: on a steel horse he rides...

horse — More stupid cattle.

horse — I love this photo so much.

horse — I call this photo "Shadowrider." (But when you say it's title, please say it in a hushed whisper or you won't get the full-effect of its truly amazing 8th-grade Art-ness.)

horse — Heading towards the open trails.

horse — So remember how I said these weren't no pussy horses? As soon as we got them on the open trail, they all started galloping. That's right: not a trot, not a canter, a full-on fucking gallop. Holy shit, I almost did something in my pants that would've put Dashiell to shame. Here's a pic Grant managed to take of me right as we all finally managed to slow them down.

horse — Grant and the Fatty on theirs. Now, one thing to keep in mind - the horses we were riding weren't wimpy petting zoo horses that have been ridden by hundreds of people. These horses were broken, but don't get ridden all that often - and when they do get ridden, they're ridden by real cowboys who know how to handle them. So in the beginning, we each had to spend quite a bit of time with our horses pretending like we knew how to act like we were in charge.

horse — Bee Gee Cowboy.

horse — Us in the stable

horse — Grant at the reigns.

horse — Me on my steed.

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Horse with one blue eye.

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Yaaaaaay, Horses!

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Action shot.

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When were leaving, this horse started whinnying goodbye.

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Suspicious horse eye! Hahaha.

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Fwiends!

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They're both smiling. Hahaha.

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Hahahaha.

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Holy fuck, right?

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Haaaaaay!

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The approach.

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More pics of Fatty making friends, this time with my nostril-friend horse.

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Yep, love them nostrils.

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And here he is showing me his nostril.

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Horses are pretty fucking scary if you're not used to being around them. My only experience with horses up until then had been in enclosed spaces. When these horses (that were grazing in an open field) saw us step across the hoof guard thingy into their field, all four of them came galloping over to us full speed. I was looking at Fatty like "Should we run?" In the end we realized that they were just excited to see new people, but it was still kind of unsettling having an animal that big excited to see you.

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Horsey like scratchy scratchy.

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Fatty making friends.

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We were planning on riding horses the next day so Fatty and I decided to walk over and try to make friends with some of the guys that we might end up riding.

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This horse was funny. He liked me taking pics of him. Here he is doing his impression of Joe Camel.

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Hahaha.

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