Chapter 47: Rodeo (1)
Another evening, Ju An put away the fishing rod, returned home and drove to pick up Wu Ming, on the way home, I heard Wu Ming mention that tomorrow was the last day of the tour group activities, and the elder Taylor and Anderson Thornton arranged for everyone to go to the Great Falls to see the rodeo.
After Ju An heard the news, he thought that he had not seen a real cowboy show, so he decided to go to his home to mobilize everyone to watch the cowboy show together.
During the meal, Ju An said: "The day after tomorrow, the tour group will leave, so tomorrow they decided to go to the Great Falls City to see the cowboy show, I thought about it, my parents, my sister and brother-in-law, as well as Ran Ran and Tongtong have not seen the cowboy show, so I discussed with everyone, or tomorrow we will go with the tour group to see, of course, we will drive ourselves."
There is nothing wrong with my father and brother-in-law, not to mention the two little ones who love to be lively, and they almost even lifted their little feet. Wu Song, who was harmful, also stood up on the small bench, and screamed twice to express his approval, but of course he was also ignored by Ju An.
My mother asked with some hesitation, "How far is that Great Falls City?" ”。
Ju An thought for a while and said, "About two hours, if you drive."
My mother waved her hand and said, "Go ahead, it's too far to drive for two hours, and you're too tired to drive alone for two hours."
Dad also hesitated a little when he heard this.
Ju An had no choice but to say: "It's not about driving all the time for two hours, you have to rest on the road, it's not too tired, let's go together, how good it is for everyone to be lively."
Then Wu Ming also persuaded him: "Auntie, let's go together, there are so many people, you see, Ran Rantong really wants to go." As he spoke, he pointed to the four eyes that looked at his mother with hope and said.
The old mother looked at the two little heads, and finally nodded in agreement, and the two little ones immediately cheered.
After happily eating dinner, I just wanted to call Taylor, but I didn't expect the phone at home to ring first.
I picked up the phone and said, "Hello, I'm Ju'an."
I heard the voice of old Taylor: "Ann! Tomorrow we will take the tour group to the Great Falls City to watch the cowboy show, I want to ask you if you are going, if you want to go, everyone together, if you don't go, then we will take Ran Ran and Tongtong to go, Jerry and the two little guys are listening to it."
Ju An laughed: "I was about to call you and tell you that we will drive along."
Then I heard Taylor and the two little guys say that Ran Ran and Tong Tong will also go, and then I heard the cheers of the two little guys, now these four little guys are like conjoined babies, except for sleeping at night, the rest of the time is basically mixed together, with little Jerry and Emily's Chinese and Ran Ran and Tong Tong's English are much better, maybe children are better at learning languages than adults, simple Chinese and English little ones are basically no problem, what worries Ju An is, Ran Ran and Tongtong's English with a strong Montana accent, serious domestic English learners may not understand what they say at once, of course, Jerry and Emily's Chinese also have the accent of Ju'an's hometown, fortunately, the hometown accent is still relatively close to Mandarin, or Ju'an will scratch his head again.
Then I heard Taylor say in the microphone: "Then it's decided, meet at the intersection at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning."
Juan replied, "That's it, see you tomorrow at seven o'clock."
Early the next morning, he got up at six o'clock, there was no way, he still had to do what he had to do, he took Wu Song to serve the beangrass and snowflakes, and then drove the two guys into the herd, and there was no time to walk them today.
When I returned to the house, I saw that the family had been cleaned up, Ran Ran and Tongtong actually changed into a leather jacket, pony boots, and a little cowboy hat, quite a bit of little cowboy, calf girl style. My parents, my sister and brother-in-law also wore cowboy hats, plaid long-sleeved shirts, jeans, leather boots, and everyone also got a pair of sunglasses with big buttons, a standard western cowboy dress.
The only regret is that Wu Song is wearing a little cowboy hat, but he has a small basketball uniform on his body, and his clothes and pants are matching, and he is not going to watch basketball, which is completely incompatible with watching cowboy performances.
Seeing that everyone was dressed like this, Ju An went to the warehouse, opened the GMC, the seat of eight people, and the two big bags carried by the old mother and sister were put into the suitcase by Ju An. Five adults with two little guys, plus Ju An sat comfortably, and after everyone got into the car, Ju An looked proudly from the rearview mirror: or brother, I have the foresight, immediately changed to a big car, this is not everyone to sit up wide and spacious.
When I drove to the intersection, I happened to see Taylor driving over with a big pickup truck towing a trailer, and after the old Taylor saw Ju'an's car, he honked his horn, and when everyone stopped the car, Jerry and Emily were hugged by Taylor, and as soon as the little guy landed, he ran towards Ju'an's car, pulled the car door, squeezed into the back seat, and sat with Ran Rantongtong.
Then Ju'an started the car, followed the old Taylor's trailer, and drove towards the Great Falls City, there were few cars along the way, and it took about ten minutes to see a car.
Every time we meet the bus, whether they know each other or not, everyone will wave and say hello.
Wu Ming said: "These foreigners are really enthusiastic."
Ju An replied with a smile: "Let you drive on this road, you will also be enthusiastic, it will take ten minutes to see a car, you should adjust your mood."
After driving for two and a half hours with the big trailer, they finally arrived at the rodeo venue in Grand Rapids.
When I got to the parking lot, I finally found two seats, and they were parked separately, and the old Taylor's car was parked in a large car parking lot, many pickup trucks with trailers, some of which were larger than the trailer that transported cattle in Ju'an Ranch.
After the car was put away, a group of people walked towards the entrance of the performance hall.
Juan was interested in the big trailers and asked Taylor, "These trailers are really good, much bigger than the ones on my ranch."
Taylor replied, "The biggest ones are for the horses and cattle used for the races," and he pointed to the other, shorter carts, and said, "Those are for the runners who are coming to the races, and there are people and horses in them."
Wu Ming asked, "They stay in the car at night?" Don't you go home and live? ”。
Taylor smiled and replied: "Every year this kind of competition attracts a lot of cowboys to participate, and the competition has points, and there are bonuses to the annual champion, so some cowboys may have to drive for a few days from home to various competition venues in the west to fight for points, so they all bring their horses, live in the car, and run to various competition venues."
Wu Ming sighed: "It's too hard to sleep in the car."
"It's okay, it's actually very comfortable, with a big bed, a restaurant, a bathroom, just like a resort hotel," Taylor said.
Wu Mingcai sighed with emotion: "It turned out that I was working blindly, but this is much more comfortable, Anzi, you can also get one, next time my brother and we come over, we will try it."
Ju An glanced at this two hundred and five: "I don't sleep in the car if I have a house at home, and I can't be shameless to buy a car."
Looking at the front with a large group of people, and from time to time explaining this Thornton and Anderson, Wu Ming said: "Anderson, they are really hard this time, the two girls we recruited can't get started, and now they want to come to explain everything."
Taylor said: "This is our job, we just try our best to do a good job, the two Chinese girls have helped a lot, their English is very good, communication depends on them, this time we will go back to pass some equestrian meetings, as well as ranch information to them, so that combined with the activities of the past few days, you can understand the same, if there is a good team of equestrian in the future, we will also arrange a two-day wild riding camp, it will be more interesting."
When they got to the entrance, they saw a row of blue sheds next to them, which sold all kinds of drinks and all kinds of small souvenirs, Taylor went to a blue ticket counter to buy tickets, and Thornton and Anderson took the group around the stalls to see what they liked and could buy.
Ju An followed for a while, souvenirs and other things interested these young IT elites, what buckles, denim carved wallets, ladies' bags, denim dolls or something, everyone bought a lot. Ju An was not interested in any of this, but he observed that the little girls and boys who sold things were basically very young. Mention this to Wu Ming, who is picking out a denim bag.
Wu Ming rolled his eyes: "Aren't you talking nonsense, buy things, you find a big man with five big and three thick, can the business be good?"
Of course, the two people used Chinese, and the little girl who sold the bag couldn't understand it.
Ju An asked the little girl curiously: "Are you working in the summer, I see that the salespeople here are basically about the same age as you."
The little girl replied, "No, we are volunteers, I am still in high school, I come to volunteer at this time of year, I have been doing it for three years".
Wu Ming then asked, "Are you all volunteers, and no one pays your salary?" ”。
The little girl then replied: "Everyone is the same, no salary".
Wu Ming took a fancy to a carved cowhide backpack in the little girl's stall, on which was carved this eagle with wings spread, which was very beautiful, and after paying the bill, he followed the large army.
The two dozen members of the group, tied up in small piles, were picking things, the men were surrounding some beautiful denim belt stalls, and the ladies were unusually welcoming to some denim trinkets.
My father and mother, my sister-in-law, and the four little ones, were watching from a stall where they were buying purses, and when they got closer, the old lady was looking at a brown purse carved with a pattern of feathers on the heads of Indians.