Ive spent the last couple of days off in bed watching DVDs and reading books. I could write a few reviews for you but you'd get more interesting things if you did a google search... Ive been out for dinner and drinks a few times (mmm pizza)
OMG our hot water is broken AGAIN!! This is driving me mad! Last night I washed my hair in the wash box down at the yard (it has hot water) I was so desperate my head was soo itchy!! 
So since Ive been here Ive learnt how to pee in a horse box and have a shower under a hose... what an education...
Susy and Laura went down to Pratone for the Italian championships a couple of weeks ago but Ava flipped at the 3rd to last fence (would have been in the lead if she had of finished
) she just misjudged the width and didn't manage to get her landing gear out in time. Both are fine, Ava had a bit of a puffy knee and Susys limping around the place but no lasting damage and apparently they are both very lucky. So they got back at 1.30 that night *yawn* 
Susy didn't come back with the horses (they were worried about delayed concussion so thought it best she didn't drive) so they didn't have a key to get in the gate, I haven't got mine yet either (stupid office people) so I was in a mad panic at 10 last night trying to find a key to the gate (try explaining that one to someone that only speaks Italian!) and Lauras phone had run out of battery so I was waiting up looking frantically out the window every 10 sec waiting for them to arrive so I could let them in. Ended up getting to bed at 2.45 by the time we got the horses sorted and did some more icing and stuff with Ava. Ahh the life of a groom.
Am going up the Germany on Wednesday taking Zack and Tucker and straight after Laura is going with Caro to France so busy couple of weeks. Oh and whats really exciting is Ive just booked a ticket to see Auntie Helen in Belgium the week after that... YAY 
So yea I'm sure Ill have something a bit more interesting to report after Germany and Belgium.
This also happened to be the day before we left to go to Marbach (at 4.30 the next morning 
) and of course I hadn't yet packed my bags! What do you do?!? Id left my phone in the house also! So I was wondering round and playing with the horses and things and just generally killing time when a couple of the BMW Sauber F1 guys came for a nosy at the horses and we got a chatting (thankfully they spoke English! - That doesn't happen a lot round here!) so they decided they would break me into my house, they ran off to get some tools and came back and started attacking the lock on the door (which happens to be quite secure - not sure if that's good or not I guess it depends on the situation
) I wasn't very keen on them breaking the whole door down (didn't really think Susy or Laura would be too impressed) so we went to plan B which was to get in through the window. Yes good idea you say... I live on the second story remember. So my BMW nights in shinning armour ran off to get a ladder (Why oh why do you need a ladder to work on a F1 car?!? 
Not that I'm complaining or anything) and my window was kind of half open but like the kind of open that you have to shut it completely to be able to open if fully (for security reasons of course
how handy) This was not match for my BMW friends however who attacked the frame with some fancy tools and completely took the window apart (again - not sure if that's good thing or not) but got me inside (where luckily my keys actually were rather than down at the yard or something stupid 
) and managed to put the window back together and fully working even! 
Marbach was heaps of fun. We took Zack and Tucker. Had a bit of a drama getting there as the navigator (and Susy) got very confused when we had to take a detour because of a road closure and ended up going over a 3 tonne max bridge (Truck is 17 tonne!!) and then found a dead end so had to go back over it!!
Luckily Susy speaks German otherwise we would still be trying to get there. German is such a cool language I just want to crack up every time I hear someone speaking it! It sounds like its so much fun! However I think I should stick to one language at a time and at the moment I think Italian is the top of the list. So anyway back to Marbach, we were the firs
t ones to arrive and got stuck right after getting in the gate so got pulled out and found a super park right next to the stables but Susy was too chicken to pull the pop-out out because it wasn't really all that flat and she thought it might get stuck out (would make driving home on the motorway interesting
)so tried to move to somewhere flatter and what do you know... stuck again, so got pulled out for the second time in 10min and found somewhere kinda flatish (so I had to walk up a hill with all the gear much to my excitement 
) The comp went OK Zack was pretty good considering he hasn't been out in about 6months but unfortunately she fell off Tucker in the SJ 
