The place of sun and sand. And also of the three day conference Sara and Grissom were to attend.
Grissom saw it as a possible means to talk to Sara outside of work. Sara saw it as... a very long and probably quite vacation, which is not a good thing. The good thing would be that neither of them would have to give a presentation outside of the forensic introduction of forensic entomology on the first day.
Both were packet and ready for their flight Monday morning. After picking Sara up, and running out of words other than "Hi" and "Let me get that for you" nothing left Grissom's mouth.
On the plane, Sara attempted to start a conversation.
"I miss California, you know? The sun, beaches, actual ocean."
"Me too."
Sara rolled her eyes, looking out the window, and then studying pamphlets for the rest of the ride. They got to the hotel and went to their joined rooms. Grissom and Sara both wondered how much worse it could get. They each got ready for the intoduction dinner that was going to take place.
They headed down to the ballroom of the hotel to go through the whole welcoming and meeting a whole bunch of other people. On the elevator trip back up, Sara turned to Grissom, "So, are you not going to talk to me the whole time we're here?"
"What do you mean?"
"You haven't said more than two words dince we've got here."
"Oh, well. I'm sorry about that... Do you think that we should go over our presentation before tomorrow?"
"I guess. This is probably just a pity prep., though."
"What is a pity prep.?"
"You're just asking me to do this so you seem like you're not ignoring me."
"I promise that's not what I'm doing."
"Give me enought time to take a shower?"
"Of course."
They disappeared into each other their own rooms.