Sugahorse,

I didn't meet anyone from South Africa, but I did see one of their golf carts with their flag on it today.....very distinctive flag with the green sideways Y, red on top, blue on on the bottom & Black? in the center of the sideways Y. South Africa actually participated in everything except for Dressage & driving. They had a person in reining (ranked 50 out of 60), individual endurance (placement was 41), team endurance (placed 15), eventing (placed 52, 53, & 55 with a national standing of 13 for the team), team in stadium jumping (placed 19), in para dressage (for those with disabilities) there were a lot of different tests & freestyle that were each placed & RSA placed just above 10 in most of them which was very good with very good dressage test scores. All in all, South Africa did well given all the competition.

I am going to work on putting together a scrapbook with all my photos & writings about the events & how the competition works & maps of the courses. My friend saved all the news paper articles for me of the larger city paper, so I will put that along with what I saw that they didn't see together.

Think I really need to clean my house though.....I have dishes sitting on my counter from before WEG started.

Actually I have one last day of volunteer work today.....finishing the gathering up of the flowers from the driving arena & they said something about trying to sell the flowers....lol.....many of them ended up dead with all the heat we have been having here. Will check to see if the museum is open also...they are showing "the Gift of the Desert" all about the Arabian horse. It's only going to be there for the rest of this week, so hopefully the museum will be open today.....sort of a final touch to the whole 3 weeks. I have to admit, I WILL NOT MISS all the driving....about 100 miles round trip. I was starting to feel like I could put my truck on auto pilot, but it wouldn't allow me to sleep.

This has to be one of the most exciting experiences I have had in my life which is probably why the coming down from it is a bit difficult....not wanting to let go of that feeling.......while ending up exhausted at the same time....oh well, we will see what tomorrow brings other than a lot of catching up on some needed sleep.