Allright here we go onto phase 2 of the Ferris is a month behind blogs. This one is obviously about trips and unfortunately much shorter than the first or third....This is a nifty thing. It happened jsut this weekend. Once again with the two Chinese exchange students whom I' mentioned in the blog on 4-13-04. During the trip it came up that Min had never ridden a horse and desperately wanted too. So after talking to my mother about it and her calling my aunt and talking to my uncle, we set it up. My uncle is a rancher with the Brown family farm (Sammy Brown). They have a feed-yard about on level with Amarillo and about six miles east of the New Mexico border. So he agreed to let us on one of the horses this last weekend. So after schedule wrangling with Yuk and Min and myself, (they had stuff on Friday I had stuff on Sunday) we decided to go to up to the farm (1.75 hours driving) on saturday morning and come back saturday night(1.75 hours driving). So we left my room about 8am went to get breakfast and then headed out. We got to Aunt tricia's house around 11:30 and hung out until Sammy got back, ate an Excellent lunch and then I grabbed a farm truck and headed out to the feed yard with two very excited Chinese girls in the seats next to me. On a side note I was really excited about it as well because I've not ridden a horse since I was 6 years old at summer camp and that time I got bucked off of a very large mean horse (and I'm not kidding ask the camp director) and I've been anxious to prove that the Indian blood in me does have some affect on my riding skills :D. So we got out to the feed barn and Sammy took a break from shoveling cow crap (also something that I have done before....same place too) to teach me how to saddle the horse and then opened up the alley in the stockyard to make about a quartermile long runway and went back to shovelling, and being the cool guy I am I rode down the alleyway first and got a general feel for the horse and the turned him around and as soon as I did the horse decided he wanted to run.....thats an interesting experience in a small saddle and not having ridden in 14 years...ulp.:shock: I survived and helped the two girls ride and then took another little jaunt up and down the alley much faster this time and after the girls rode again the horse turned around and went right back to the stable and refused to come back out. He decided that he had had enough of unskilled morons riding him. So we let him rest took some pictures and then helped Sammy clean up the rest of the barn and then jsut sat and tlaked about things in complete silence. Its amazing how much noise is all around us all the time and it takes driving 2 hours to reach a quiet place to jsut sit and think and talk with friends. :) It was quite possibly the most relaxing two hours I've spent in a long time. Went and got some horse feed and fed the horses before we left and then went back to Tricia's hung out and ate dinner while we waited for my cousin Sarah to get back so we watched the end of Trading Spaces with her hugged her a lot(she's the coolest cousin I have:D) and then took off. Got back into town with a camera full of awesome pictures and some great memories. Its so easy to bring Jesus into conversations with them because they are so open. It makes me wonder just where along the way Americans got so cynical and hard. It was a blast and now two days later I'm still ridiculously sore, my rear in particular.:oops: Saddlesore takes on a completely new meaning when you actually are saddle sore. I'm excited I've still got a small list of thigns to do with these two girls before they go back and I want to make sure I take every opportunity to witness I can.:D Then I leave it up to God, cause I can't change a persons heart....thats something only God can do. All I can do is plant seeds and pray hard. For all of you out there who would pray for Yuk and Min that they would be saved and that they would be powerful witnesses when they go back to China. Coming from a very sore seat and the end of pt.2 - Ferris! :D
