We were also invited to the American School for Iftar and parents came with different food to the school.
Since I was living abroad in Europe for many years, I have hardly even notice when it come to Ramadan. Of course there are certain percentage of Muslim population there but it was not really a big celebration among my European friends.
We were invited by the host for Iftar on Friday. We and few other guests arrived before the break fast (Iftar) at 17:50.
They hosted a very big 50 thousand acre of beautiful greenery land surrounding their property. There were hundreds of horses as they were breeding horses and growing of palm trees.
We had 10 mins before Iftar, so we have a quick walk around to see nearby the stable and surrounding.
We came back to the house to eat when we heard the prayers. There were lot of dishes served and everyone started to walk over to the table where they served the buffet dinner.
After dinner, we walked around the whole area looking at their horses. Guided tour was their beautiful daughter Dee Dee who also loves horses.
We sat and watch different horses which were brought out to run.
This is one of the first white horse which they took out.
There we were sitting and watching the horses running.
Sheikh Khaled wanted Gabriel to get use around horses, so he have bought a horse out for Gabriel to pat. Gabriel is so afraid of horses and he would never come near them. Peter carried him and we slowly makes him feels comfortable by just touching it once.
After the first touch, he was still feeling nervous to be near them. Few mins later came a little beautiful spotty white and grey pony who are ready for Gabriel to have his first ride.
At the beginning he said straight "NO" when the horse came but eventually somehow he offered himself to ride after thinking for few second. We were so surprised that he would sit on that horse.
Sheikh Khaled helping Gabriel to the horse.
Nervously grabbing on to daddy's neck while they are adjusting the saddle.
Look at the sweet smile after all is done and ready to start ridding. Gabriel and Shiekh Khaled
Of course he is not ridding on his own for the first time. Daddy and a boy hold him while they ride around. He is very happy and said that he would want to ride the next day again.
He went down Pat the horse and said thank you. A very big smile on the happy daddy face after.
Since my daughter Veldiner has been ridding in Sweden for the past 3 years and would like to start again, we are coming back to their house the next following weekend and meet the French ridding instructor. Possibly if she found suitable with the ridding, we would sent her there every weekend.
Obviously, Gabriel will also take the chances to have his small ride each time when we are there.
Here is Gabriel knocked out in the car on the way back home. It is over his bed time and he is very tired. We got home at almost midnight. It was a nice beautiful day spent.
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