Horses

I went horseback riding at the pyramids yesterday. Unfortunately, my camera was broken at the time, so I don't have any hilarious pictures of me sneezing wildly at my horse (I'm allergic to them, apparently). I've done my best, though, to find pictures that will give you an accurate picture of the experience and my thoughts about it.



The pyramids hadn't changed that much since the last time I was here. Except now there was a horse. The horse was very large and I was given absolutely no advice as to how to keep from dying in some ghastly fashion.



Theoden killed a bunch of Orcs and whatnot and then got killed when his horse fell on him.



Knights wore a bunch of armor, presumably to keep this from happening to them, but they still got killed by their horses falling on them. Refer back to that first picture. I'm wearing a t-shirt. This is running through my head a lot.

Note that I'm not afraid of horses. That would be silly. Horses are relatively unintelligent, and I'm relatively sure they don't eat people habitually. But falling from horses... that's a different story.

But in no time at all I rode out into the desert on the horse, dismounted to take memorable photos, found out my camera didn't work, gotten back on the horse, and ridden back into the city. And I'm still in one (slightly sore) piece.