okay here's our friend Klaus the horse
Today we are going to drive a horse and carriage around the island
so yeah with driving horses today we're harnesses and I know with riding horses
they have settled so
money do you know how to drive these things just gas and brakes right yep the
Lakeshore Road right today yeah can I say hi - oh yeah
Tovah do you guys want to pet them before we get in
you guys can pet them and say hi to them
big boy hey he's a little bit bigger than ours isn't he okay this is this
dual traffic on this road yeah we see horses coming this way or no carriages
coming towards us
they all know thank you mom is officially driving what do you
think Brandi I'm pretty excited I know that I know that you know it's his job
and I don't have to do much but you know definitely a lot different looking at a
big butt than our little buttons that we got I think she's talking about me are
you guys excited what do you guys think
this is kind of fun huh yes a different experience so we got a nice is our man
of the day you guys Brandi as our pilot and then we have the beautiful red the
mighty Mackinac Bridge that connects mighty Mac so we've got like a view of
the entire bridge I can't think of a better way this is something cool like
you don't get a chance to do this anywhere else that I've ever been
basically said hey horse carriage and they said you know how to do this so
we're gonna go on up we've got our passengers which is Klaus with bori bori
John and we've got Tova Lynne yeah and Tova and Brandi are dressed apart floppy
hats they're sundresses and we're gonna go around the islands we're gonna check
it out we're gonna go through the island we're gonna go see the old cemeteries
we're gonna see the old governor's mansion and we're gonna we're gonna get
this this big boy back safely and probably get some ice cream
well like you know just you know block Mike and amongst bikes and coming down
the hill cool because ace kind of squats in the butt down cuz the breaching there
takes all that he takes all the weight from the breaching and he slows the
vehicle down kind of cool that's the purpose of the breaching that's the
stopping mechanism he's got one bug that is just driving him nuts so ASA the
Percheron I forgot to ask how old he is but he was Amish trained and he's one of
the more get-up-and-go horses that they have ace ways he's been around 1800
pounds he's a pretty big boy we're coming up on a cemetery day nice messy
I wonder what that is up there what kind of wagon is that up there no it's a
vacuum it's yeah it's a vacuum it - so here we are just a meandering through
the island and I can't believe they just they just give you a horse in the in a
buggy and say okay go have fun so here we are just roaming around on the island
and checking things out but I all I can think about is how many things could
actually go wrong in this scenario I mean I know what I'm doing so at least
like I have some horse sense and stuff they give people a horse that's going to
suit them so like this horse he's you know he'll try a couple things and get
scared of a couple things but some of the verses they just know exactly where
they're going and they do 95% of the work so yeah it's just really
interesting to me how like I get I can't believe they don't have more rest
so many things could go wrong here
sorry yes you need to get over buddy so a flick step on to the left side of the
road he doesn't like to be on the right I think it's really cool though to watch
how his how the Britch and works going downhill and how he really slows up and
kind of had it tuk tuks is but in a little bit to help with the load we got
a couple those look like just like Saddlebreds over there hey can I pass
behind here is okay if I pass you okay cool
all right thanks you get a team of Belgians there are those Saddlebred
beautiful like that you're looking for help yeah I got Toba driving a pretty
good job too it's a great a great driving lesson this is a good way to get
some practice in on a horse that knows exactly where he's going
so when we go home and start walking on driving minis she's got a good nipple in
it because the minis don't drive nearly as guys they kind of like to go where
they want to go so I make sure that you keep on and you just you can't just let
this I loose a little bit and then he'll that'll kind of help them turn there you
go
yeah but there's a real comment so you know now stay centered cuz he likes to
go over on the left side for a drone so we're supposed to drive we gotta wait
because there yeah boy great place
see how he tips his head over there here now let's go straight oh excuse me which
way to the Grand Hotel okay thank you
dangerous honey okay people on the way move over there's
a carriage behind you move over oh look at those they aren't
fancy trotters oh boy look at this we're gonna go right by the Grand Hotel
I'll get that team their fancy backup skills soon as we get to the bottom of
this hello buddy Oliver
okay buddy you ready to hop back on my lap you some more driving start to your
driving awesome okay so he likes to go this way we got to keep them straight
don't grab on real fight just like just like I am yep you both tight I'm gonna
help you a little bit okay just so we don't lose them yeah I think it's a
little tight but you have to have them grip these rings like your life depended
on okay line we're gonna shorten up our lines so we shorten one of the time yeah
slow down I'll let go your face good boy now it's even trying to us that's really
a whole team's of elgyn
okay now we get a turn right there don't we
Thanks so Bodi we're gonna make a big turn so I'm gonna take the line all
right there we go ace no one's looking at me anything oh
we got a big team sitting right there
hey these people better not try this concludes our carriage tour and our
route was about 90 minutes we all agreed that this was a fantastic way to get to
see the whole island and we definitely recommend Jack's livery stable for a
carriage tour