twilightpony | The Morning After The Night Before

It was really late, or really early, before everypony went to bed. I think I slept about three hours before Applejack shook me awake to ask how I lit the cook top. We have a magical tree-chest castle heat transfer cook top. So I stumbled down to the kitchen and bumped into the right rocks and stood there in a daze for a while. There was a pink and orange blur in the kitchen. After a coffee or two, bought in Canterlot for just for occasions like this, it occurred to me that Applejack and Pinkie were cooking breakfast. Pancakes! I could go wake the others. No, bad idea, I'd fall asleep just about as soon as I saw a bed. I sat down in the kitchen.

I must have fallen asleep at the table. I blinked and there were pancakes on the table, a big pile, on a tray, and oh did they smell good.

I helped carry the pancakes, butter and syrup to the dining room table. Rainbow Dash, Starlight Glimmer, Fluttershy and Applejack were already there. They'd just finished setting the table. Rarity had gone to wake Spike. Pinkie was right behind me with tea, milk, sugar, whipped cream, hay, more pancakes and more syrup. We had three syrup flavors on the table, strawberry, zap apple and peppermint. I think some of those used to be jams.

We ate everything and chatted up a storm. There were so many conversations going at once and crossing over, it was hard to keep track. But all good things don't last forever and our friends went home after breakfast. Spike, Sunset Glimmer and I set about cleaning.

That collect the rags game had us picking up feathers in a lot of rooms. We'd even left trails of feathers in the hallways between the rooms. Last night, after the rag had been collected, Starlight Glimmer would anounce the next room and we'd race off to get there first. Starlight Glimmer was on my team and she was no help in getting us there through the castle maze. Rarity's team had Spike, so they had an edge over my team. One room had the rag loaded in a confetti cannon. Starlight Glimmer had collected all the confetti cannons (she's particularly good at bumping into the ones Pinkie stashed everywhere) into one room, and while we pounded each other breathless with pillows, the cannons would fire. Feathers and confetti everywhere. That room was harder than the others to clean up today. Some pillows might have confetti in them now.

The clean up is finished and I've had a long afternoon nap. It's been a really short day. I'd say that Starlight Glimmer's slumber party was a success.