Why am I wearing the fake water jump?

For a change of pace, I didn't ride today and instead introduced my very brave mare to the plastic blue tarp like the ones I've seen used as water jumps a lot of lower level eventing trials.

First we walked on it and listened to it rustle.

Then we tried it on! Lucy was already like, ok, so what's the point to this exercise?

Then we put it on our heads!

Clearly I have a very very very tolerant three year old. This gives me hope for our future in the eventing world.

Thank you to Stewart for taking these photos :)