A while back I had been talking to a friend that works at a ranch called C Lazy U.  It is a guest ranch.  I’m not quite sure what people do at a guest ranch.  I assume they ride horses and eat fancy dinners, but I’m not quite sure.  My friend was telling me I should come out to the ranch sometime and watch the horses run out to pasture.  During the day, the ranch’s horses are in a corral or being ridden.  In the late afternoon they take them out to a pasture for the evening.  They let the horsed run through the ranch to get to the pasture.  I want to see a bunch of horses running.

One day we get a search and rescue call to C Lazy U.  The rescue went so quickly and smoothly that they had guy in the ambulance before I was needed.  We just happened to be finished right before the running of the horses.  We hung out at the corral for a little bit to kill some time.  There were 50 or 60 horses hanging out not doing much.  We met Petey, the donkey that hangs out with the horses.

Then they opened the corral gates and the horses followed one cowboy on a horse and ran down the street through the ranch.  They went from milling around kind of bored horses to happy trotting horses.  You could almost hear them saying “yay, this is my favorite part of the day – we get to go hang out in the pasture now”.  Where I thought I saw 50 or 60 horses in the corral, it seemed to be hundreds now.  They kept running by and then more and then more.  The sound was so loud I’m not sure we could have talked to each other.  Somewhere in the middle, Petey trotted by too.  He really thinks he’s just one of the horses.  I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen this many horses in one place.  What a fun end to the day.  Still not sure what people do at guest ranches.