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Camping Trip
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Ivy: Ryou! Get your bag out here! They'll be here any minute!
Ryou drags a duffel bag out into the Bakuras' living room and sets it next to Ivy's.
Ryou: T_T I can't believe I let you talk me into this...
The doorbell rings and Ivy excitedly runs over to the door and answers it.
Ivy: *blush* Oh, hey Seto. Hey Mokuba. You can set your bags over there. *motions to Ivy and Ryou's bags*
Seto: Thanks Ivy. *sets his bag with Ivy and Ryou's*
Mokuba: Yeah, thanks for inviting us on this trip with you! *also sets bag down*
The doorbell rings again, and Ryou answers it this time.
Yugi walks in, carrying a long canvas bag and his own duffel bag.
Ryou: Hey Yugi. Did you get the tent?
Yugi: Hey Ryou. Yeah, It's right here. *tosses the bags onto the pile*
Ryou: ok, cool. Joey and Tristan should be here any minute with the other one.
As if by coincidence, the doorbell rings again, with Joey, Tristan, and Serenity at the door. They had a long canvas bag also.
Ivy: Hey, guys. Got the other tent?
Joey: Yeah. I hope Tea and Mai get here soon with the food... I'm starved.
Ivy: Joey, that food is for the trip... --U
Serenity: Hey Ivy ^_^ Long time no see! How've you been?
Ivy: Heya ^_^ I've been fine, thanks.
There came a knock on the door.
Ivy: I'll get it! *opens the door for Tea and Mai, who had about 5 moderately large bags of things* Hey guys. Got all the food?
Tea: Yeah. I'm so glad I get to go camping with all my friends!
Everyone: ...............................
Ivy: Well, let's get all this stuff loaded into the truck!
Everyone carries their bags outside to the waiting covered pickup truck and puts them inside. Once the living room was completely empty, they filed out of the house, and everyone but Seto, who was driving, piled into the back of the truck and sat the pillows and sleeping bags. Seto climbed into the left side of the truck and started the ignition.
Ivy: Well, it's gonna be a long ride to Rocky Mountain National Park, so let's play a game. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Yugi: I know! *pulls out a deck of cards and eight spoons* Let's play spoons! (thanks for your help, Arayuldawen!)
Ivy: All right, is everyone ok with that?
Everyone: yeah.
Yugi transforms into Yami, puts the spoons in the middle of the circle and deals out five cards to each person. He then begins to pick up cards and passes them to Ryou on his left, and the game begins. After about five minutes of passing and collecting, Serenity, followed by Yugi, Mokuba, Ivy, Ryou, Mai, Tristan, and then Tea, all pick up the eight spoons. Joey had just kept on playing.
Joey: *realizes no one is passing cards anymore* Hey, what gives--
Serenity places four queens on the truck bed.
Joey: oh... I guess that means I'm out, huh?
Everyone: *giggling* yup....
Everyone places their spoons back in the middle, and Ivy removes one. It is now Ryou's turn to deal, so he collects the cards, shuffles them, deals and begins passing to Serenity. The players passed the cards around the circle clockwise, trying to get 4 of the same face card or number. In this round, Mokuba gets out. It was a close call between him and Tristan, but Tristan had won because he was stronger. When Seto hears that Mokuba had lost, he drives over a large dip, causing everyone to fling their heads onto the roof of the pickup.
Everyone: ow... sorry...
And so the rounds kept going, one person is being eliminated each time, until it was down to Yami and Mai. Spoons isn't exactly a two-player game, so they decided to decide the champion through speed. Each player is dealed 21 cards that they put face-down in a pile in front of them. The remaining 10 cards were placed in two more face-down piles in the middle. Each person takes one card from the top of their piles of 21 and places it next to the one the other player sets down. These are the players' piles for discarding. They then draw five more cards and place cards that are exactly one away from the one on the top on both piles as fast as they can. There can only be five cards in a player's hand at a time. The two piles of 5 cards are incase both players get stuck. In other words, if you are stuck, then you have to wait for the other person to get stuck before you both can flip a card onto the top of the discard piles. Apparently, Yami had some kind of ancient Egyptian strategy (which everyone puzzled at; how were there decks of playing cards back then?), which brought him a victory over Mai.
Yami: Ha! I win! Ha!
Everyone: .....................
Joey: Hey, watch this! I learned this card trick in Vegas! *grabs deck, shuffles, and holds out cards to Tea so he can't see them* Pick a card, any card!
Tea picks the Queen of Hearts.
Joey: Okay, memorize that card, and stick it back in the deck here. *holds out deck again, and Tea puts the card back*
Joey drops the deck into a paper bag and shakes it up. He then pulls out a card and shows it to Tea.
Joey: Is this your card?
Tea: Yeah.
Joey: Really? I actually did it?
Tea: No, actually you didn't.
Joey: Rats. *pulls another card from the bag* Is this your card?
Tea: No, that's not it either.
Joey: Grrrr......
Joey shows almost all of the cards to Tea before he finally pulls the Queen of Hearts, and by then everyone is asleep. Joey and Tea look at eachother, then fall asleep also.
***
Seto: Guys? Guys! Wake up; we're almost at the park entrance.
Ivy: *yawn* Wha--Oh. Right. *shakes Ryou* Wake up, bro. We're almost there...
Ryou: ...We are...? But I was having a nice dream...
Ivy: *goes up to the window separating Seto from the rest of the group and opens it* Here, Seto... *hands Seto the Bakuras' season pass* Just show it to the guy at the gate, and he'll let us in...* goes back to wake the rest of the group up* C'mon, guys... we're practically there...
Seto drives up to the little entrance booth and shows the Ranger the Pass.
Ranger: Hey, thanks for stopping by. Would you like some park maps and activity schedules today?
Seto: Hold on, I'll ask her. *turns back to Ivy* Hey, you want some maps and schedules?
Ivy: What? Oh, yeah, sure.
Seto: Okay. *turns back to ranger* Yeah, we do. *takes the maps and schedules from the ranger* Thanks. *drives ahead to the visitor center, where the group gets out to rest and get the campsites*
Camping Trip
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Ivy: Ryou! Get your bag out here! They'll be here any minute!
Ryou drags a duffel bag out into the Bakuras' living room and sets it next to Ivy's.
Ryou: T_T I can't believe I let you talk me into this...
The doorbell rings and Ivy excitedly runs over to the door and answers it.
Ivy: *blush* Oh, hey Seto. Hey Mokuba. You can set your bags over there. *motions to Ivy and Ryou's bags*
Seto: Thanks Ivy. *sets his bag with Ivy and Ryou's*
Mokuba: Yeah, thanks for inviting us on this trip with you! *also sets bag down*
The doorbell rings again, and Ryou answers it this time.
Yugi walks in, carrying a long canvas bag and his own duffel bag.
Ryou: Hey Yugi. Did you get the tent?
Yugi: Hey Ryou. Yeah, It's right here. *tosses the bags onto the pile*
Ryou: ok, cool. Joey and Tristan should be here any minute with the other one.
As if by coincidence, the doorbell rings again, with Joey, Tristan, and Serenity at the door. They had a long canvas bag also.
Ivy: Hey, guys. Got the other tent?
Joey: Yeah. I hope Tea and Mai get here soon with the food... I'm starved.
Ivy: Joey, that food is for the trip... --U
Serenity: Hey Ivy ^_^ Long time no see! How've you been?
Ivy: Heya ^_^ I've been fine, thanks.
There came a knock on the door.
Ivy: I'll get it! *opens the door for Tea and Mai, who had about 5 moderately large bags of things* Hey guys. Got all the food?
Tea: Yeah. I'm so glad I get to go camping with all my friends!
Everyone: ...............................
Ivy: Well, let's get all this stuff loaded into the truck!
Everyone carries their bags outside to the waiting covered pickup truck and puts them inside. Once the living room was completely empty, they filed out of the house, and everyone but Seto, who was driving, piled into the back of the truck and sat the pillows and sleeping bags. Seto climbed into the left side of the truck and started the ignition.
Ivy: Well, it's gonna be a long ride to Rocky Mountain National Park, so let's play a game. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Yugi: I know! *pulls out a deck of cards and eight spoons* Let's play spoons! (thanks for your help, Arayuldawen!)
Ivy: All right, is everyone ok with that?
Everyone: yeah.
Yugi transforms into Yami, puts the spoons in the middle of the circle and deals out five cards to each person. He then begins to pick up cards and passes them to Ryou on his left, and the game begins. After about five minutes of passing and collecting, Serenity, followed by Yugi, Mokuba, Ivy, Ryou, Mai, Tristan, and then Tea, all pick up the eight spoons. Joey had just kept on playing.
Joey: *realizes no one is passing cards anymore* Hey, what gives--
Serenity places four queens on the truck bed.
Joey: oh... I guess that means I'm out, huh?
Everyone: *giggling* yup....
Everyone places their spoons back in the middle, and Ivy removes one. It is now Ryou's turn to deal, so he collects the cards, shuffles them, deals and begins passing to Serenity. The players passed the cards around the circle clockwise, trying to get 4 of the same face card or number. In this round, Mokuba gets out. It was a close call between him and Tristan, but Tristan had won because he was stronger. When Seto hears that Mokuba had lost, he drives over a large dip, causing everyone to fling their heads onto the roof of the pickup.
Everyone: ow... sorry...
And so the rounds kept going, one person is being eliminated each time, until it was down to Yami and Mai. Spoons isn't exactly a two-player game, so they decided to decide the champion through speed. Each player is dealed 21 cards that they put face-down in a pile in front of them. The remaining 10 cards were placed in two more face-down piles in the middle. Each person takes one card from the top of their piles of 21 and places it next to the one the other player sets down. These are the players' piles for discarding. They then draw five more cards and place cards that are exactly one away from the one on the top on both piles as fast as they can. There can only be five cards in a player's hand at a time. The two piles of 5 cards are incase both players get stuck. In other words, if you are stuck, then you have to wait for the other person to get stuck before you both can flip a card onto the top of the discard piles. Apparently, Yami had some kind of ancient Egyptian strategy (which everyone puzzled at; how were there decks of playing cards back then?), which brought him a victory over Mai.
Yami: Ha! I win! Ha!
Everyone: .....................
Joey: Hey, watch this! I learned this card trick in Vegas! *grabs deck, shuffles, and holds out cards to Tea so he can't see them* Pick a card, any card!
Tea picks the Queen of Hearts.
Joey: Okay, memorize that card, and stick it back in the deck here. *holds out deck again, and Tea puts the card back*
Joey drops the deck into a paper bag and shakes it up. He then pulls out a card and shows it to Tea.
Joey: Is this your card?
Tea: Yeah.
Joey: Really? I actually did it?
Tea: No, actually you didn't.
Joey: Rats. *pulls another card from the bag* Is this your card?
Tea: No, that's not it either.
Joey: Grrrr......
Joey shows almost all of the cards to Tea before he finally pulls the Queen of Hearts, and by then everyone is asleep. Joey and Tea look at eachother, then fall asleep also.
***
Seto: Guys? Guys! Wake up; we're almost at the park entrance.
Ivy: *yawn* Wha--Oh. Right. *shakes Ryou* Wake up, bro. We're almost there...
Ryou: ...We are...? But I was having a nice dream...
Ivy: *goes up to the window separating Seto from the rest of the group and opens it* Here, Seto... *hands Seto the Bakuras' season pass* Just show it to the guy at the gate, and he'll let us in...* goes back to wake the rest of the group up* C'mon, guys... we're practically there...
Seto drives up to the little entrance booth and shows the Ranger the Pass.
Ranger: Hey, thanks for stopping by. Would you like some park maps and activity schedules today?
Seto: Hold on, I'll ask her. *turns back to Ivy* Hey, you want some maps and schedules?
Ivy: What? Oh, yeah, sure.
Seto: Okay. *turns back to ranger* Yeah, we do. *takes the maps and schedules from the ranger* Thanks. *drives ahead to the visitor center, where the group gets out to rest and get the campsites*