Horses and Jam

Hello everyone!
We’ve been keeping very busy these last few weeks. Here are two of the things that I like best about the past month:
A few weeks ago, one of my students gave me rhubarb jam. Have you heard of rhubarb? It’s a kind of sour vegetable. It looks sort of like lettuce, but the stalk (the middle) is red. Orin and I LOVE the jam. It is delicious! Thank you very much, Eiko.

Last weekend, we went to the Ban-ei Keiba with one of my students and her family. They showed us how to bet on horses, and we watched a race. Sadly, we didn’t win. After the Ban-ei Keiba, we had a barbecue together. The next day, the family took us to D-J Ranch in Nakasatsunai. There, Orin and I had a horse-riding lesson! It was really fun, but at the end of the day our rear ends really hurt! Oh, well. I guess that is part of the fun.
Here is a picture of Orin on a horse:

Can you ride a horse? Tell me a story about horse-riding, or rhubarb jam!