I'm sorry everyone! I didn't mean to make everyone emotional again!

Kirsten, I'm glad you're having a good time with Taz! I'm sure you'll learn a lot from him! I don't know where I would have been when you were trying to find me, but I was definitely around; we didn't leave until Monday afternoon (and got home 4 AM Tuesday :x Needless to say, I didn't go to school in the morning). The good news there, though, is that Weslie said Nine and the two horses he was riding with (Maxwell Smart and the yearling Agent 99) were the last there; all the other horses had been adopted!

Rebecca, I'm so glad you got to keep Bu!!! And believe me, I know how you feel about getting to keep him ;) I'm also glad you have Hercules with you! He was two stalls down from Nine and I spent a lot of time talking with his trainer (Joseph). Hercules sure does seem like a good little guy! He is very calm...

Lauren, you have a point... Where am I going to keep all the Mustang I want to keep? :P I'm actually in a bit of trouble with my dad for bringing Nine home... Daddy buys the hay and says I need to find someone to buy the donkeys now, so he can afford to keep feeding Nine... His idea is that since I'm such a "big shot" trainer (his words) that I can train the donkeys to do something cool so someone will want them, lol.

I am so happy to have met all of you, and I learned a ton! I have even reconnected with a friend here at home who used to ride with me. Then the horse she rode (my dad's Appy) died and she drifted away from me. But when she heard about me getting 6th place and having Nine returned to me she came over and we went for a really nice ride. I rode my other (how cool to say "other" because now I have two to distinguish from!) BLM gelding Hammar, and my friend rode Ashley, who is still (or again....) Nine's mare. Either way I was happy for the ride, whoever's mare she is now, lol. And today me and my friend are going out to lunch. She has big plans of moving to Oklahoma and becoming a horse trainer, so I have a feeling she'll be spending some time around me again to get back into the horse thing ;)

The point is, so much good has come from Nine coming into my life that I really don't care how little money we have left! (And let me tell you, we are completely broke!)