Let me introduce you to Ava’s new horse – courtesy of a member of our local freecycle group.
He doesn’t really have a name yet, in part because she’s just not quite sure about him…well, it could be a her, I guess. Thankfully these horses haven’t quite progressed to being anatomically correct – but they have certainly come a long way since I had one back in the early 70′s. Mine was just a plain old plastic horse on 4 huge springs that had an annoying tendency to snap loose at just the right time to cause the maximum amount of head trauma, short of losing an eye, possible.
This one is way sturdier. It’s huge. It’s covered in fur, has a saddle, talks and sings with it’s moveable mouth, and makes these nifty clip-clopping noises when it’s ridden. It also looks as if it’s brand new. The best part, of course, was that it was free. Especially since the internet tells me that it retails around the $119 range.
Remember I said it was huge? Now I know why the people said they didn’t really have room for it.
Imagine this coming at you through the back window:
We had to strap it on to the back of the Xterra since it wouldn’t fit inside with Ava’s car seat in the back.
She approached it cautiously once it was inside the house.
But climbed right up to give it a go.
And then she looked down.
Only to discover just how high up she actually was.
A rapid dismount soon followed.
That thing is as big as a real pony! And… you stopped to take a PICTURE of the terrified child? Tsk tsk. (I would have, too.)