~~TGDB
Road trip with Marth, Link, Ike and Roy.
Part three:
Marth sighed as the wind played with his blue hair. Smiling contently he turned to Link who had the same look in his face.
“Amazing, isn’t is?”
“I know.”
They where standing near the edge of the Gran Canyon, the wide vista displayed before them. Ike was sitting on a rock sketching away in his black leather notebook. Roy came to stand next to Link with eye’s as big as dinner plate’s.
“Wooooow. I never knew it was so big!”
“Yes Roy, it is very big.” Marth replied with a voice of awe.
“In fact it’s 277 miles wide, ranges in width from 4 to 18 miles and attains a depth of over a mile. And on a side note it’s…”
“Oh Marth, please! Enough!” Roy complained, covering his ear’s with his hands.
“I had enough listening to the guy in the gift shop. I don’t need anymore info pumped into my brain. It can handle only so much, you know.”
Link stifled a laugh, giving Roy a goofy look. Roy stuck his tongue out in that childish way. Link rolled his eye, pulled out a camera and started snapping photos.
“Hey guys, let’s get one with all of us.”
“Ok! I’ll stand next to you, best buddy.” He said to Marth, playfully punching him in the arm. Marth gave him a dirty look and then called out,
“Ike! Get over here, we are taking photos.”
Ike reluctantly but his notebook away and walked over to stand next to Roy. Link was setting up the camera on a tripod.
“Give me a minute guys!” He called over his shoulder.
“So, you where doodling again?” Roy asked Ike.
“Yes I was but I would not call them doodles. More like sketches. This place is amazing, I could spend hours just drawing the beauty here.”
“Oh, cool.”
But in truth Roy was thinking it was really silly. If he was to draw, it would be a robot, a mutant or something like that. If he where to draw at all.
“Ok, it’s ready everyone!” Link said pushing buttons on the camera.
“On the count of three, I will push the button and run over. It should be about 10 seconds till it goes off. Ready? One, two, three!” Link ran over next to Marth and everyone got ready.
“Don’t you dare give me bunny ears, Roy.” Ike warned darkly.
“Why would you think I would do that?”
“Say cheese everyone.” Marth said.
“CHEEEEEEESSSSE!!!!!”
“Ok, that’s it!” Link ran over to the camera, looking at the photo.
“This is great! We should totally get this framed when we get home.”
“We will see what we can do. Now I think we should have lunch.” Marth said walking to the bus, he opened up the back and grabbed a ice cooler. Roy ran and pulled a blanket out of the back seat and spread it out on the ground.
“It not the most comfy place to sit but hey, it could be worse. We could be sitting in a ’grand’ lava lake.”
“Ha, very funny genus!” Link retorted, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Then they set our their lunch. It consisted of a loaf of French bread, several different cheeses, salami, grapes, assorted vegetables including olives (but not black. Ike hate’s black olives), bubbly water and homemade fudge they made in a microwave at a gas station. It was Marth’s idea which the guys thought was brilliant. They sat, talking quietly amongst themselves just enjoying the wonderful weather.
“What could be better that having a picnic with a view like this?” Marth said, sweeping his arm to all the grandeur before them.
“Not much, I would imagine.” Ike replied after taking a bite of stinky blue cheese.
“How can you stand to eat something that smells like baby diapers?” Roy exclaimed with a look of disgust.
“Well, at least it doesn’t taste like baby diapers. Heeeere, have some and see for yourself.” Ike tried shoving a piece into Roy’s face, but with a loud cry he fell back and scooted away. Ike and Link laughed hysterically, even Marth covered his face with a hand to hide a smile and a giggle. Roy climbed back onto the blanket, pointing at Ike.
“Don’t do that again! It’s not funny!”
“Yes it is and you know it.”
Roy just glowered.
“You know Roy, you don’t know if something is bad for you until you try it.” Marth suggested. Roy sat there with a martyred look on his face.
“Oh come on man. Cheer up!” Link said encouraging.
Nothing.
“At least he’s not asking you to read Shakespeare.“
When Roy did not respond, Link smiled then made a goofy face, sticking a carrot stick in his ear. Roy could not contain himself any longer and fell back again, holding his sides with laughter. Then everyone started laughing hysterically. When they calmed down Roy gave Link a high five and said,
“This is the best picnic ever, stinky cheese and all.”
If you where standing on the other side of the Grand Canyon you could hear laughter floating on the breeze.
