Around and Aboard the Galapagos Legend, Friday, October 18, 2019

[heroic_jawline]

We're heading into our final stop this morning before heading back to Quito for the evening, but we've saved the best for last--if you count giant tortoises as the best and you should.

But for now, up and at 'em! Beat Beau to the gym!

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Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

Okay, so first Nina took a picture of that. Because she had to.

But then:

"Ohmygosh!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bus Dean, do you need a hand?????????????????"

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"I could use about four," Anakin said wryly. "Yes. And thank you!"

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina laughed even as she hurried over to take some of the toys from him.

"Who are all of these for?????????????" she wondered. "They can't all be for Juliet and Christopher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

At least, like, she hoped not.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"I have a few grandchildren," Anakin explained, then made a slight face, "and grandchildren who've attended Fandom and then had children, too."

GREAT-GRANDFATHER. SO OLD.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

.................................

".............. from, like, different timelines though, right????????????????????"

Because, dear god. DEAR GOD.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"Oh, definitely different timelines," Anakin said. "I am still very young."

As only very young people say. Obviously.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

"I suppose so," Nina said, a touch dubiously because, well, even leaving aside the great-grandkids he'd had two wives and several children at this point, so...

Yeah.

"I hear, like, age is just a number anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"Not even a very reliable one," Anakin declared.

Because he was old.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

"Especially not when the island is involved," she said supportively since, even though Nina thought he was just making himself older, well, he was her favourite teacher.

She'd let him sound totally uncool.

"Did you miss me while I was gone?????????????????????"

Nina didn't really expect him to. It still baffled her that Prompto had been mad about the way she'd left.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"You were gone?" Anakin teased, grinning, before nodding. "A bit, maybe."

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

"A bit, maybe," Nina mused, deciding that, you know what, she was okay with that. That made her happy, that she'd been missed even a little. "For, like, the record: I'm totally fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"And if you weren't, would you admit it in a public tortoise reserve?" Anakin asked.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

"Not even a chance of that," she said breezily, not the slightest bit ashamed about that answer either.

Sure, the tortoises wouldn't care, but ugh, that sort of conversation in public?

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

Anakin gave her a little grin. "So I have office hours and then ask again."

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

She grinned back at him.

"And, like, you might get a different answer then, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"Then I'll have some next week," he said. "It's been too quiet without your particular brand of enthusiasm."

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

"I'll be there," she promised, since she wanted to talk to him anyway. "And, like, if you missed my brand of enthusiasm does that mean, like, I should run out and start another shenanigan??????????????"

Were you volunteering your bus as tribute, Anakin?

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"That is not at all what I meant," Anakin said. "Leave that poor bus alone."

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

"We're just trying to make the bus more exciting," she protested, giggling, and feeling secure enough to do so because they hadn't even gotten yelled at for covering it in origami.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"Why does the bus need to be exciting?" Anakin asked. "It's a bus."

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

"Well, like, it was the first motorized vehicle I ever got to see and ride???????????????????" Nina mused. "Which, like, already made it pretty exciting????????????? And then there's something about the challenge of it all............."

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"Do you want me to make it more challenging?" Anakin asked. "Because I can do that."

This was a terrible plan.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

But it sounded amazing!

"More challenging????????????" she asked, intrigued. "How would you do that????????????"

That... that wasn't a no.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[sith_happened]

"If I told you it wouldn't be challenging," Anakin, worst influence, said.

Re: Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina hesitated.

On one hand, this was probably, like, something that all the Diamonds ought to vote on.

On the other hand, she was pretty sure both Vette and Prompto would be down for a challenge and Nina had never, ever been able to turn down one herself...

"Then yes," she said, "please make it more challenging!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

This way she'd feel less bad if her three-year plan of getting the bus on the moon worked out.