Thursday, July 5, 2012 - Noisy Night and Shopping Day

OMG, what a night! The crowd that moved in during the day put on loud music, loud voices and get both going until the crack of dawn this morning! They were doing fireworks throughout the night as well, upsetting Marina for hours. Absolutely no concern for anyone else, or the rules, or even just plain decency! Kids were running around on bikes like wasps since about 8:00 this morning, and the adults were back up and at it by about 10:00. Unbelievable! We only hope that this is going to be the only night this happens, we’re willing to excuse them the holiday, but if this carries on, I don’t know what we’ll do. I actually had to put in earplugs for the noise, something I usually reserve for the heart of a downtown! Anyway, at least I was able to sleep, though not long enough, but Hubby was worried that as they got more drunk they might mess with the horses, so he didn’t put in earplugs, and thus he didn’t get a very good night sleep. We were both tired when we got out of bed this morning, so we decided that it would be foolhardy to attempt our 14.5 mile ride we’d planned today, so instead I went into town and did some shopping and internet work that needed doing. Hubby took a nap while I was gone, and managed to deposit 2.5 hours of sleep into his sleep bank in my absence. When I came back, we read for a while before settling down in the evening to TV, which we had to turn up to hear over the loud music, which, again was still blaring when we went to bed at 11:00. Earplugs again for me, but Hubby was still worried about the horses, so he braved it out without them. Still heard fireworks going off late, though, really upsetting Marina. Wish these people would call it a night! We’ve never been ANYWHERE where there was so little respect for others, or the rules about quiet time. Yes, there have been occasions when somebody would run a generator all night, usually for medical reasons, but never this kind of noise for the entire night! We’re beginning to understand why there are no other horse people here, this is obviously the kind of place people come once and never come back again!