Sunday 28 June 2015

Eventful weekend at Aintree National Show

This weekend has been slightly eventful to say the least, Lucy and I have been away at Aintree Racecourse for The Equi-Trek National Show with a Forever stand to spread some aloe love. 

Our weekend started with an hour battle in the wind putting up the gazebo and boy the sense of accomplishment once we had done this was pretty amazing and we were on a roll, well so we thought... 

Once the gazebo was up we went to unload the table and stock however, the car was locked... and... Lucy couldn't find her car keys...

Yep, you've got it... Lucy had only gone and LOCKED her car keys inside her car! So at this point we had no stock, Lucy didn't have her phone, my handbag was in the car which contained my purse which contained money for a) breakfast and b) a cup of tea! A hungry and caffeine craving Jess first thing in the morning is not good. Luckily for us I realised I had my phone on me and we were able to eventually get a hold of Lucy's mum who, lets face it, was not impressed in the slightest as she had to make the hour drive over to us to drop the spare set of keys off. 

We thought whilst we had a free hour we would take a look around the show to see what was going on and it seemed like our bad luck was following us around too. We watched a foal break loose in an in-hand class and go galloping around the ring, we then bumped into a guy who had taken a head butt from a horse and ended up with a nasty cut on his head along with concussion! This was all too much to take in before 9:30 am. We did however manage to explore the race grounds a bit and find Red Rum's statue. Not long after this Lucy's mum turned up to save the day and we were able to set up our stand - hooray! 

The rest of Saturday consisted of advising people on the benefits of aloe vera to humans/animals, as well as showing them the product range and trying to keep the gazebo on the ground. In the end we resorted to tying our gazebo to a port-a-loo which was nearby (desperate measures and all that), borrowing a dozen electric fencing posts which were already in use by the racecourse and a lot of twining string! 

Sunday was a much quieter day for us, we endured another day of tackling the gazebo in the wind and even though we didn't spread as much aloe love as we hoped we did have a really good time away. 

Over the weekend we did get to meet some lovely people who also had some stands, there were two sisters from the Manchester area next door to us who run Equine Mania which provides everything for both horse and rider (www.equinemania.co.uk) and four ladies who help out at Beechley Stables RDA, Allerton, South Liverpool. The use of the stables is for the benefit of disabled children. As a horse person myself, I know I couldn't live without these beautiful animals and I don't think anyone else should either. This is such a valuable cause and I would highly you recommend you check out their website to see what they do in full and how you can help (www.beechleyrda.org.uk).

Here are some of the snap shots I managed to get this weekend :) 




























www.beechleyrda.org.uk



Couldn't resist this putting this on too - Talk about slacking! 



That was my weekend, I hope you all had a good one!


Jess x
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