We Finally Made It! :)

What a process! So Nina and Bentley took off from JFK on wednesday morning around 7:30am set to land in Frankfurt wed. night around 10pm. Unfortunately, Frankfurt is a winter wonderland right now, and experienced really bad weather through the night. All flights into the Frankfurt airport ended up getting re-routed, and the horses were sent to Munich. They remained on the plane in Munich for 13 hours, waiting to take off to finish the journey to Frankfurt.

I arrived this morning on one of the last flights allowed to land into Frankfurt during the morning. My mom, Dad, Meagan Davis, and I have been working all day to get the horses into the Frankfurt airport, cleared through customs, and shipped to Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff’s place, “the schafhof”. We FINALLY got the horses out of “the animal lounge” at the airport (i.e. the part of the airport where the horses are held in quarantine until cleared by the vet and customs) by 9:30pm, a full 24hours later than anticipated. Aside from looking extremely tired, and a little dazed, the horses shipped really well and made it to Ann Kathrin’s in one piece with no troubles. WHAT A PLACE!

You drive into the estate through large, intricate, wrought iron gates into a driveway area where you park. The driveway was cobblestone with trees segregating parking spaces, each having pot lights illuminating every tree from below. There is shrubbery running all over the place, enclosing it, and making it very private. You walk through another set of wrought iron gates into a court yard area with a water fountain, and a bridge, all illuminated by pot lights again. You continue up the cobblestone driveway to the barn (i.e.: THE PALACE!!!) where Nina and Bentley are currently staying. It is such a stunning place!!! Nina has two neighbors she’s made friends with through the stall bars. It is just a beautiful place. I will post pictures of it hopefully tomorrow. For now, Meagan and I are going to bed so we can get up early tomorrow and look after our horses, watch some rides by Mathias Rath, and get on our horses for a bit depending on how tired they are! So far, all is well and Germany looks beautiful all covered in snow, lit up with christmas lights. I am so excited to finally get to ride Nina and watch some of the best riders in the world! I will also hopefully be able to post a video of the horses on the cargo plane tomorrow as well!! :)