Danielle is almost nine and is spending fall semester on Semester at Sea. The most recent part of this blog chronicles her time on Semester at Sea. The earlier part of this blog was written when she was six and living in Italy for the year. She normally lives in Evanston, Il.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Pony riding lessons in Rome
There is a ranch in Rome that has ponies and "horses."It is a huge ranch. And there are some cows and dogs that live on the ranch, and some goats, roosters, chickens, pigs, bunnies and ducks.
[Top: Entrance to the Roma River Ranch, a little bit of Americana along the shores of the Tiber. Below: Playing with a horse at the ranch]
[Admiring the farm animals at the Roma River Ranch with Michele]
There are also lessons for bigger kids that get to ride on real horses but they are better than Lulu (Lucia) and me because they are older. We ride ponies. I had my first lesson on Tuesday because the other Tuesdays were rainy [and the lessons were canceled].
[Brushing the ponies down before a ride]
Before that we went on Saturday and they did not have enough ponies so we walked with them along the river.
[Below: Accompanying the ponies and riders alongside the Tiber River]
[Video below: Daniela and Michele talking to the cow.] The following week we saw them milk the cow.
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