WEG Day #41
Opening Ceremonies is done and we are in the The Games. They went well and we did our change from Opening over to the Endurance Venue. A very long day and we were very successful in doing that. A few opening errors in transmission (hey, were is my sound effects?). So, that has been sorted and things are quiet. For today we are preparing for Dressage (horse ballet), a NBC show at noon, and still doing Reining and Endurance. The Endurance has become more of a problem due to Dubai TV. They want a lot of air time to do interviews and news packages. We were counting on only doing simple coverage and it is expanded.....a lot!Endurance is a competition that is a 100 mile race. Remember the movie "Hildago"? Race across the Arabian Desert and the person that doesn't kill their horse wins? This is sort of like that. The rider goes out on a 13-20 mile loop, does a vet check on the horse, and goes out on the next loop. There are 6 loops of various length for 100 miles. The Middle East is famous for their riders and there is royalty riding today with the Sheik of Dubai's son and the Royal Family of Qatar. And, by the way, they are about ready to go to war with each other. Things are a little tense down in Endurance. And the tents they are using each have very large chandiliers in them. Nothing but the best for Royalty.
My last story for today is about Mr. Skunk. I was checking on Indoor arena for some computer installs and Brian had left for the day back to the campground for a well deserved break. I was coming downstairs to leave and one of the building people call me over and pointed to something in a corner.....Mr. Skunk. He was a little angry as all of the riders and people and me were standing there watching him Needless to say, we didn't want to interrupt his moseying around our venue. So he finally decided to walk down the cattle hallway as he got bored with us. The problem was he was heading down towards Brian's Camera 2. We all thought it was funny when the camera person came in the next day to have a visitor waiting for him so I did finally decide to call Brian and inform him of this nocturnal friend.
Brian, you are on your own!
From the Horse Park
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