A Day Outside...aka Jan being silly...again.

The other day Jan sent me and Pocahontas outside to 'get acquainted' again.  Seriously, I don't know if she is aware of it, but that excuse gets old very fast.  We aren't going to become best buds overnight, okay Jan?  How long does it take to get that drilled into your head?!  Really.  Anyways....  

I don't really know how she expected us to talk at all, because she went on a photoshoot rampage and took fifty million pictures of each of us.  They do look rather nice, though. :)

And that's just a few of them!! :). Anyways, after that I went off to look at some pretty flowers that were nearby, but sheesh, it was both windy and chilly, so I had to hold on to my hair to make sure it didn't get messed up.

By this point, Jan left us alone, so we kind of just went exploring.  Finally, I said something, because the silence was getting pretty thick.

"So, um, this is kind of awkward, isn't it?"

"You too?  Glad I'm not the only one!"  Pocahontas giggled.  "Does she expect us to be best friends overnight?  I mean, I have nothing against you, but uh, you know what I mean." 

"Trust me, I do.  Jan gets a little annoying, doesn't she?"

"Um, yes.  Couldn't she have realized my box was upside down in the Disney store bag on the way here??"  Pocahontas dramatically pretended to faint.

I had to stifle a giggle there.  I thought I was the only one whose box was upside down.  Anyways, Pocahontas was apparently quite the dramatic!

"Yes, my box was upside down too.  Oh, look at that pinecone!!"  I had spotted a cool looking pinecone on a nearby tree.  "I'm going to try and get it down."  I reached up, but couldn't quite reach it.

Pocahontas meanwhile climbed up a tree, nimble as a....um, I don't know, but she was really fast!!! ;)

"Want to join me up here?" she called.  It looked kind of fun, but the thought of climbing uo that high kind of made me queasy.  What if I fell?

"Er, no thanks!" I called up to her.  "I think I'll stay down here."  Pocahontas looked a little disappointed, and I felt really bad.  I mean, it wasn't a personal thing!!  I just don't enjoy climbing up like 5 times my height, ok?  

Pocahontas climbed down and we continued walking along.  Suddenly she bolted ahead and started jumping around excitedly.  Now what?

"Look!" she said.  "It's a real mushroom!!"  

"Um, so?"  I replied.  Frankly I thought the mushroom was a bit ugly.  It had these wierd-looking things stuck all over it.  Pocahontas, though, apparently thought it was really cool.

And I stood off to the side while she exclaimed over every last minuscule detail of this...uh, what did she call it?  Oh yeah, mushroom.  

When she was finally done, we continued on until we came to this bench.

"Hey, let's climb up!!"  Pocahontas exclaimed.  "We could have a much better view from up there!"  

I peered up at it.  It was a little shorter of a climb than the tree, but I still wasn't sure.  But Pocahontas had already started to climb up.

And then promptly jumped back down.

"Argh, this hair!!"  she cried dramatically.  "It always gets in my way!"  Apparently she is quite dramatic or something.

"Well, why don't you ask Jan to put it up in a braid for you?"  I put forth timidly.  "Maybe then it wouldn't get in your way."  Personally, I thought she was out of her mind.  I would love to have hair like hers.  Mine is short, and you also can't do anything with it.  Not even put it in a ponytail.  

Just then Jan walked up.

"How are you two getting along?" she asked.  I rolled my eyes.

"All I know is that I'm just going to die if this hair isn't out of my way soon!"  Pocahontas exclaimed.  Jan stifled a smile.

"I said that maybe you could put it up in a braid for her." I added.  Jan nodded.

"I think that could be arranged." she said.  "Want me to do it now?"

"Yes!" Pocahontas added.

After Jan had finished, Pocahontas twirled around and showed her new hairstyle to me.  

"How does it look?" she asked.

"It looks great." I assured her.

"Thanks, Snow." she replied.

"Well, I guess that's taken care of." Jan said.  "I have to go do my schoolwork right now, so come back in when you're done exploring."

"Ok!" we said at the exact same time.  Jan left

"Well, want to try getting up on that bench again?"  Pocahontas said excitedly.  She climbed up in about five seconds.  How does she do that??  It'd probably take me like half an hour.

She leaned over the edge of the bench.

"It's really nice up here." she said.  "I can help you up if you want."  I looked up at the bench again.  It still seemed very high...and a very long way to fall!  

"Er, that's ok." I said, hoping I didn't hurt her feelings.

"Oh, well ok." she replied, her face falling.  I think I did hurt her feelings.  I needed to say something, and fast.

"I'll come up next time we're outside!" I blurted.  Oohh, I'm going to regret that.

"Really?  Promise?" she asked, her face lighting up.

"Yes, of course.  I promise."  I said.  

"Great!!"  Pocahontas had a grin a mile wide.  "Do you want to go back inside now?"

"Sure."

As soon as we got back inside, we climbed up the leg of the display table.

"Ugh." I said, as soon as we made it to the top.  "Couldn't the table be a little shorter so we could climb up easier?"

"I know, right?" Pocahontas replied.  "But anyways, we made it."  At that moment, Jan and hr sister started singing Let it Go in the next room.

"Oh, brother." Pocahontas groaned.  "Do those girls have any idea whatsoever how horrible they sound singing?"

"Um, probably not." I said.  "And I personally am not going to be the one to tell them."

"Why not?" Pocahontas asked.  "It's offending my ears!"

"Yes, but I have no idea if they'd get mad or not, and I don't want to find out!"  

Pocahontas laughed at that one.  We actually were starting to chat like friends.  Maybe Jan was right.  No, no, no.  No way am I going to prove her right.  That isn't fair.  Pocahontas was nice, sure, but I don't want Jan getting a swelled head or something and thinking she's right on everything.  Besides, then she'd probably think I should always listen to her.  Um, no thank you.

Just then Jan came up.  Pocahontas clapped her hand over her mouth.

"Hope she didn't hear us complaining about her singing." she whispered to me out of the corner of her mouth.

"Me too."

"Would you like some chocolate?" Jan asked.  "It's Hershey's."

"Chocolate???  Really!!!" Pocahontas exclaimed.  "Oh my goodness, I LOVE chocolate.  I adore it.  It's like the best thing ever....."  Pocahontas glanced around and noticed both me and Jan looking at her funny for being so overly dramatic about how she loves chocolate.

"Oh, um, sorry." she said, blushing.

"No, it's fine." Jan said.  "Glad you like it."  

So Jan broke off a little bar from the chocolate, and handed us each a piece.  I must admit, it was delicious!!!  

And then Jan just had to take a picture of us with the chocolate bar.  I hope this doesn't go on all the time....with fifty million pictures.  Yeesh.

Maybe living here won't be so bad after all.  Pocahontas is nice....if a little dramatic, but still nice.  But I still don't want to prove Jan right.  Sigh. :/