life just can't get any better. [arrival]

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Gabby's excited face peered out of her adopted father's minivan, enthusiastically shifting her feet so she would get a better view. Her long, straight strawberry blonde hair fell past her shoulders, strands catching in the girl's mouth as she struggled to sit up. Stormy blue eyes shining, the fourteen year old girl glanced at the trailer pulling behind them. A slight squeal of excitement drew from her, the girl practically bouncing impatiently in her seat. Eventually, the minivan pulled up in front of the main office, and Gabby swiftly unbuckled her seat belt. " C'mon, Da! We're here! " Gabby shrieked happily, landing on her feet outside of the door. Her tennis shoes pattered quickly across the pavement to the back of the trailer.

Pushing a few buttons, the girl danced on her feet impatiently as the trailer door slowly creaked open. When it finally creaked open, the girl slowly approached her black appaloosa with a wide grin. " Steady girl... " she coaxed softly, grabbing the lead rein and gently leading the mare out into the sunlight. It was only holding Daun's reins that kept her from squealing like a girl and practically jumping up and down. Tying her to a post, the grass squelched underneath her tennis shoes as Gabby practically shot like an arrow to the door. " Umm.. Bye, Da! " she called cheerfully, waving ecstatically as her father got into the minivan and began to slowly pull away with the trailer slowly dragging behind.

Then the girl swiftly opened the door and flounced into the room happily. Gabby winced as the door slammed, but then she walked forward slowly. " Gabriella Lynn Huntington here. " she announced.

[Jennifer Hart]

Jen looked up from her laptop that she had set up temporarily on the main desk, casting a smile at the girl that entered, "Hang on just a second, honey." She finished typing the sentence of the proposal that she had been working on, then saved the work before switching over to the more-permanent desktop computer which was running the academy's student database, "Huntington, you said?" She typed the name into the search field, smiling as the girl's name popped up, first on the list. "Here you are."

She pulled a copy of the campus map from the drawer in the desk and then uncapped a highlighter, marking and pointing as she spoke, "You're going to be in the Yellow Ribbon House, room C01 to be exact." The highlighter skipped across almost half of the page as Jennifer consulted the screen again, "Your mare, Dawn of the Rising Sun, will be in the White Oak Barn. When you get there and unload her, you should find a clipboard with the stall assignments, or you can just walk down the aisle and see if you find her name on one of the plaques." She pulled out a silver key attached to a keychain with the Blue Ridge firebird logo, "Here's your room key, so you can get settled in." She slid the map and key across to the girl, "Do you have any other questions?"

OOC;: Not going to make a staff post about this, but first, where's all her stuff? Between her own stuff, because she's at a boarding school, and secondly, Daun's stuff (Saddle, grooming, blankets?)... Also, on that note, Daun would hopefully have been trailered in a halter, in which case there would be no reins, but a lead rope...

[CaraGenie]

I am going to make a staff note, a few Stern didn't mention in her note. There is no way that her horse would have been unloaded outside the main office as anyone towing a trailer would be directed straight to the barns. Gabby could have been dropped off at the barn, but her Da and Daun would have continued to the barn. Also, in Daun's app, you have her a dark bay, yet in the post above you have her as being black.