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

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

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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The Galapagos Legend, with a capacity for 100 guests, is still small enough for a more intimate experience with friends and family. With her three different decks, the Galapagos Legend offers a great variety of comfortable and spacious social areas without losing its sense of intimacy. Its fantastic open decks allow you to admire the islands’ flora and fauna, enjoy a BBQ at night, or take some sun at the pool and bar areas. It's last day aboard, so get your ship-themed souvenirs today or not at all!

Edited 2019-10-18 13:12 (UTC)

Students are in Junior Suites with big windows, and the chaperones are in Balcony Suites because neener neener, students.

[OOC: Room assignments are here and as always, NFB posts go in personal accounts.]

Edited 2019-10-18 13:13 (UTC)

The juices, rolls, and ceviche are still out, along with coffee, horchata and a ton of fruit! There's a lot of exploring to get done today, so start out with a good breakfast!

There's a pool on the Sun Deck, a gym, library, and jacuzzi on the Earth Deck, and a lounge or restaurant on each deck as well!

[OOC: Tell us where you are!}

Have you missed civilization just a little? The capital of the Galpagos Islands on San Cristobel, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno is here for you! You can explore the wharf, poke into souvenir shops and restaurants and take pictures of the sea lions that are...pretty much everywhere. Like cows in India, sea lions in the Galapagos are allowed to go where they please.

Tell us what you're up to in the subject line!

Giant. Tortoises. So cool.

Evening post will go up in the afternoon!

If you thought Kitty wasn't taking Lexi to see giant tortoises you were wrong. Half the fun of these trips was getting pictures of Lexi with things she'd have no clue about later.

For her part, Lexi liked these guys better than day, getting in the pool.

Wayne? Loading up with a good breakfast before heading out for the week's excursions? Surely, you jest.

Look, it was important, apparently enough so to make a damn thread about it each and every day. Pitter-patter!

"So," said Rosa, who didn't think the whole taking-pictures-with-the-giant-tortoises thing was adorable, shut up, "how do you think she's liking this trip that she probably won't even remember?"

"She doesn't seem to hate it," Kitty answered. "Anything that she can watch, she likes. Like giant swimming cats and tortoises, apparently."

"...I think I missed the giant swimming cats," Rosa said, after a moment. Quite possibly to make sure she either heard that right or hadn't actually just forgotten about them, both of which seemed completely plausible.

"It seemed to be with one of the students. It was just swimming around in the pool on the ship," Kitty said, casually. "Pretty sure the cat itself wasn't actually a student."

Steve caught a glimpse of movement as he walked past the observation deck and paused to double-check that it was Sidon or a different, less...swimmy...student.

~~Or Namor, but he's not in the MCU.~~

"Dolphins!" he breathed, grinning, as he saw what was out there. You couldn't not smile to see dolphins.

Now that she thought about it, Rosa did feel like she could vaguely recall one of the students in her summer class with Blackstone always having a giant cat with her.

Which was, you know, the sort of detail that most people didn't recall just vaguely.

"I bet the staff here is going to just love what that's going to do to the pool filters," Rosa noted.

And then wondered if this school had ever gone and taken a trip to the same place twice, because she could definitely see their groups being the sort that weren't often invited back....

"Maybe we should leave really big tips," Kitty suggested, frowning.

Okuyasu was 100% taking selfies with giant tortoises and trying to send them to Josuke to taunt him.

That was also 100% not working, because Josuke was in 1999 and had a 1999 cell phone.

So instead Okuyasu was going to have to save those pictures and just taunt Josuke with them in person. Because when your best friend is creeped out by turtles, you take pictures of you hanging out with giant ones.

Why on Earth would Lucifer be out staring at tortoises when he could get the jacuzzi all to himself if he got there early enough?

He was there, stretched out like half the tub belonged to him, and basking in the sun.

Now all he needed was a model or five.

... Was he taking pictures to antagonize Eric with? Yes.

Who, Kennedy? Beat Beau to the gym again?

Obviously.

She'd been thinking of hitting the treadmill today, but decided to leave that to the octogenarian lady from the hotel and staked (heh) out the stationary bike instead.

Which had nothing to do with the fact that it was conveniently positioned so she could wave jauntily at Beau when she got here. Really.

Funny how that meant Beau could walk in, already flipping Kennedy off with both hands when she arrived, then! It was fine, this was pretty much just the established routine for the week by now.

Look, some people did witty banter. Other people had the weirdest kind of dumb-jock rivalries.

Anakin had taken multiple pictures with the tortoises and was now trying to figure out how to get the enormous plushy tortoises he'd bought for Juliet, Christopher, baby Jaina and Jacen, Ben's kids and Jaina's twins back to the bus without using the Force.

Right now it involved a lot of banging into things and cursing.

Was Keyleth out observing the giant tortoises? Of course she was, because half the reason for her going on this trip would be wasted otherwise.

It was going to be so cool turning into one of those!

"Maybe," said Rosa, "if the tip is 'If you see Fandom High, just say no.' But, hey, at least there's no waterfalls for anyone to go down in barrels during this one."

Just...large cats in the pool, a sharkman who kept leaping off the side of the boat, and squirrels infesting the whole place.

To name a few.

Honesetly, though, this time around had been incredibly tame, it almost made Rosa a bit wary of the rest of the day.

"No, but the dean still ended up shot out of a cannon so we can't go thinking we're ever getting a fully normal trip," she said, scooping Lexi up before she could try to pull on the tortoise somehow.

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

ABOARD SHIP

Rooms 10/18

Breakfast 10/18

Shipside Fun 10/18

Puerto Baquerizo Moreno

Exploring Puerto Baquerizo Moreno

Cerro Colorado Giant Tortoise Reserve

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Jacuzzi

Gym

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