After looking around, Lara and Noreen ended up with several good finds loaded into Lara's car. Just as they had collected Gloria and were ready to go, Wyatt and the boys showed up.
"Did you get all the good stuff already?" Wyatt asked them and the boys looked at all three of them with alarm.
"I got a keychain," Gloria said.
"Oh, no!" Riley said and DJ looked worried too.
As she was leaving, Lara told Mitch, "We'll need more of your help with the festival soon. A few things have cropped up that the amateurs don't know how to handle." As she said that, she looked at Wyatt in particular and he objected.
"Hey! You know I'm only good for grunt work."
"And we appreciate it," she told him but then she turned to Mitch. "I'll be contacting you for your hours."
"There isn't as much to do here so I should have the time," Mitch said.
Rico thought about how Wyatt and Sam volunteered as a team and wondered if he and Mitch might be able to do that.
Once the girls were gone, Sammy bragged to the boys, "I sold the elephant lamp for a lot of money," she said.
"You did. How much?" Wyatt asked her.
"Fifteen bucks," she said like she was saying a million bucks instead.
Wyatt whistled and said, "You are rich."
"It's not for me. It's to help people," Sammy said.
"So you got some big money for charity, good for you," Wyatt told her.
"Sell me something, Sammy," Riley told her and they ran over to the nearest table.
Sammy went straight for a red enameled trivet in the shape of a rooster. "Watch out, Ry. It's heavy," she said as she gave it to him with a huff. "Now gimme two bucks."
Taking the rooster from him, Wyatt handed the money to Riley before he asked, "What is this thing?"
"A rooster," Sammy said, and the boys nodded. They also knew it was a rooster.
"Grandma said it was a trivet," Rico told them. "Hey, Sammy, those ladies look like they need help. You want to show these guys what you can do?" Rico pointed her toward two ladies, one of whom was looking at a bronze statute of a mermaid with a fish.
Sammy went right over and asked, "Can I help you?"
When the lady asked her the price, she pointed at the sticker. She was a pro.
"Can you make me a deal?" the lady asked with a smile.
Sammy shook her head. "No." But the lady still bought it.
The other lady was looking at a colorful, beaded bag. "How much?" she asked.
Rico whispered in Sammy's ear, and she said, "It's only ten bucks, but you can give me more if you want."
She thought about it for a while. Sammy watched her with her big, blue eyes intent. Finally the lady had to cave to Sammy's high-pressure sales tactic and handed over the money.
"You are good at selling stuff," DJ praised her.
"Of course she is. We're going home with this," Wyatt said and held up the trivet in the shape of a rooster.
In the meantime, Riley had moved on to his next discovery. He had his eyes glued to a ship in a bottle.
