On Friday morning, a strange mist rolled out from the park. It smelled sweetly of cotton candy, much like the scent of the night before. When the mist ebbed, it left something in its wake: tents and booths and rides, spread somewhat haphazardly around the park.

A moment later, the lights went on. At the front, an arch that bore a sign: Cooger & ( Read more... )

Since there was no need for a mid-summer welcome picnic, the administration had splashed out on this one: the tables (located under giant tents) were groaning with sidedishes from corn on the cob to potato chips to baked beans to several dodgy-looking jello salads and the grills were set up along the beach cooking chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs, ( Read more... )

Rapunzel...okay, so she was a little nervous about this. But Rapunzel really, really, really wanted to go swimming. She'd never had (naturally), and today she'd finally found the courage to pad down to the beach, barefoot as usual, and curiously watch the ocean for awhile ( Read more... )

The funny thing was, it wasn't like Rapunzel was normally not in a great mood. At worst, she was occasionally sort of gloomy, or a little frustrated -- like yesterday, when she had brushed her hair until it gleamed just because she was really mad at one tangle.

But today she was in the best mood ever. Like...ever. She hadn't been even close to ( Read more... )

If you were to put together a list of all the things that Rapunzel had not experienced in her tower, it would probably be longer than her hair, honestly ( Read more... )

Pizza! Rapunzel happened to think that pizza was yet another of those brilliant modern culinary inventions. Right up there with ice cream, and those candy things that had both chocolate and peanut butter in them. Which meant that she was sort of wiggling impatiently as she waited outside for someone to show up so that they could eat ( Read more... )

Given that today was a Sunday and therefore not a day where she would be in danger of skipping class to eat cookies (which all things considered, Yeul thought was a terribly mild sort of danger and rather amusing to contemplate besides) that made it a perfect day to wander down to, and then inside, J,GoB ( Read more... )

So, somehow, Karla had managed to talk Priestly into loaning out his kitchen to anyone who wanted to help make food for tomorrow's Thanksgiving feast. She still wasn't sure how she'd managed that, considering Priestly's odd reluctance to trust her in the kitchen, but she wasn't going to look the gift chef in...the...uhh, oven ( Read more... )

Rapunzel wasn't sure why, precisely, but she'd woken up with the sure knowledge that today was a day that required ice cream. Ice cream ( Read more... )

Tomorrow was Halloween, and while Jono had never really done much for Halloween in his pre-America days, it was one of those holidays that had managed to quickly grow on him. Something about being a night for monsters, coupled with being a teenaged monster himself, had appealed, and he'd made an attempt to enjoy it as much as his circumstances ( Read more... )