Lunch With Canterlot Friends
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twilightponyToday I took a small trip of my own. I went to Canterlot, nominally to buy hoof powder from a specialty store for me and Rarity. Rarity was still in Manehattan for the day to look after Rarity For You and to see what else is in style in Manehattan first hoof. Starlight came back with the morning train. She said the show was excellent and then she dived into her books.
It's the same powder the Princesses use. I'm nearly always barefoot, but the Princesses wear their boots as a matter of course all year round and I don't know how bad your nails smell if you wear shoes or gloves a lot, but pony hoofs can really stink when sealed off in hoofwear. Like in the winter. I got an extra vanity jar for Rainbow Dash, I noticed that at home she really likes to wear slippers, and not just in the winter.
I went straight from the train station to the hoof powder store. It's an old apothecary in upper Canterlot, full of glass and porcelain containers of herbal concoctions, remedies and medicinal powders of all sorts. Zecora would love this place. It's right by Celestia's School, so with my (very expensive) sapphire jars of hoof powder sagely wrapped and stored in my saddle bag, I trotted down into the bowels of the Department of Physical Equinology and Archaeology to see if I could find Moondancer in her basement office. She was there in the research archives, working on a document in her crevice piled high with scrolls, artifact fragments and reference books. I tried to describe sunshine to her, but in the end I just dragged her out of her grotto and into the light.
She proposed lunch with our friends at a place off the beaten path. It has good food at reasonable prices and it's a favorite with the students. First we collected Lemon Hearts, Lyra Heartstrings, Minuette and Twinkleshine and we all had lunch together. We monopolized a table for a long time, chatting about old times and catching up with what every pony has been up to. Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine had gone to see the Baltimare fireworks in the Crystal Empire, so we compared notes with the one's I'd attended. Minuette said she might go cheer on Canterlot.
By the time we finished chatting, it was time for me to gallop to the station or I'd miss my train. I flew there instead, the Canterlot streets can be slippery and I didn't want to arrive in a lather. Or knock over ponies on the way. It would get into the gossip pages.
That was a fun trip but I didn't get any new books! At least I got the foot powder. I'll give those to Rarity and Dash next time I see them.
It's the same powder the Princesses use. I'm nearly always barefoot, but the Princesses wear their boots as a matter of course all year round and I don't know how bad your nails smell if you wear shoes or gloves a lot, but pony hoofs can really stink when sealed off in hoofwear. Like in the winter. I got an extra vanity jar for Rainbow Dash, I noticed that at home she really likes to wear slippers, and not just in the winter.
I went straight from the train station to the hoof powder store. It's an old apothecary in upper Canterlot, full of glass and porcelain containers of herbal concoctions, remedies and medicinal powders of all sorts. Zecora would love this place. It's right by Celestia's School, so with my (very expensive) sapphire jars of hoof powder sagely wrapped and stored in my saddle bag, I trotted down into the bowels of the Department of Physical Equinology and Archaeology to see if I could find Moondancer in her basement office. She was there in the research archives, working on a document in her crevice piled high with scrolls, artifact fragments and reference books. I tried to describe sunshine to her, but in the end I just dragged her out of her grotto and into the light.
She proposed lunch with our friends at a place off the beaten path. It has good food at reasonable prices and it's a favorite with the students. First we collected Lemon Hearts, Lyra Heartstrings, Minuette and Twinkleshine and we all had lunch together. We monopolized a table for a long time, chatting about old times and catching up with what every pony has been up to. Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine had gone to see the Baltimare fireworks in the Crystal Empire, so we compared notes with the one's I'd attended. Minuette said she might go cheer on Canterlot.
By the time we finished chatting, it was time for me to gallop to the station or I'd miss my train. I flew there instead, the Canterlot streets can be slippery and I didn't want to arrive in a lather. Or knock over ponies on the way. It would get into the gossip pages.
That was a fun trip but I didn't get any new books! At least I got the foot powder. I'll give those to Rarity and Dash next time I see them.
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