icelandic pony.. I mean, horse adventure

Yesterday I went horseback riding on the outskirts of Reykjavik. I went with a small group from the course, and we were driven out into the country, away from 'civilization'. It was raining a bit so they gave us rainpants and boots and jackets to wear. The horses here are very cute. They´re quite small, I think they are breaching the pony end of the scale, but they are very friendly. Mine was a white mare, though I never learned her name. She was kind of frisky and always wanted to be near the front, and I think she may have been sisters or something with this other white mare, who Magnus was riding because they always seemed to want to be near each other or would race each other. There was a group from the States that had been in Iceland for a week and that was their last day here, and I think they were off to Sweden for a wedding.
My horse was really friendly, though she bit one of the American guys in the foot. She had a itchy nose and kept scratching it with her leg and when I was on the group she used me as a scratch post, nearly pushing me over.
At the beginning of the ride I realised my saddle was really loose so I was trying to stop her os could fix it and then I fell off. It didn´t hurt, it was more funny than anything.
We got to see a lot of beautiful country side from horseback, which was nice. It was hard to take pictures though because of the bumpyness. It was quite lovely and I realised I really miss horseback riding. I haven´t done that in a long time.

Tonight is whale watching, and hopefully we will see something. The weather is quite nice, very sunny and clear sky, so even the boat ride might be nice. I have only really ever seen dolphins and manitees in Florida so it would be neat to see an actual whale.

I bought a cellphone the other day, and it´s nice to finally feel connected. I also bought some new shoes yesterday. They have really neat shoes. The ones I bought make my feet look so small, but I guess I´ll get used to it. A lot of shoes are like slippers, they´re very comfortable and some even look like ballet slippers with laces up the legs. And Adidas and Puma are the most popular, though Nike is somewhat big, but I found out that Adidas is actually German and the guy who started Puma is the brother of the guy who started Adidas (and adidas is for Adi Das... something, whatever his last name was). Some of you probably knew that but I didn´t and thought it was neat.

But I have to head out and get some lunch, then movie, then whale watching then out on the town with the icelandic exchange students!

Bless bless