Festival Fever

As I had hoped, we're all going to the Crystal Empire Winter Festival. We met up today at Sugar Cube Corner and discussed our plans over hot chocolate. This will be the first time we will have visited the Crystal Empire in the winter and Rarity is keen to see first hand crystal pony winter fashion "in the wild". Fluttershy hopes to catch a glimpse of the wild animals there. They're active despite the cold and snow. Pinkie wants to see it all and try every activity and every specialty. For party research, of course. Parties are SERIOUS business (her words). Since Spike is a local celebrity in the Crystal Empire, we're going to see if the festival organizers would like him to take an official role in any of the activities.

We leave in less than two days. I think Rarity is already packing, there are so many things she wants to wear. I'll pack tomorrow but I bought our train tickets today, just in case.