Picnic In The Wide Green Yonder

Rainbow Dash's last day of compound cleaning for her Wonderbolt faux pas was yesterday! This of course calls for a celebration. Since it's been ages since we'd had a picnic together, we chose to go on a picnic. We all grabbed some food, mostly sandwiches and cookies, and the six of us trekked over to Saddle Lake. We spread our picnic blanket on the same grassy hill overlooking the lake that we'd chosen last fall and emptied our saddlebags. Applejack stamped out a pitch for a game of horseshoes.

We relaxed in the sunshine, supplemented our sandwiches with a little grazing, watched Applejack and Rainbow Dash battle it out at horseshoes, played tic tac toe, chatted and generally had a relaxing afternoon. It was a low key celebration. Fluttershy slept through most of it. Critter care is grueling in the early part of summer.

Spike and Starlight Glimmer didn't join us for the picnic. They both left this morning for the Crystal Empire, Spike for his honorary role at the fireworks (it's Trottingham's turn) and Starlight Glimmer to visit Sunburst. They'll be back tomorrow.