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Scavenger Hunt #2:
1. Something Beautiful
2. Something Exciting
3. Something Creative
4. Something Cute
5. Something Delicious
6. Something Growing
7. Something Loved
8. Something New
9. Something Old
10. Something Hopeful
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A scavenger hunt wasn’t his usual affair. But then. His usual affair in summer consisted of him causing trouble for his shareholders, Marlo, and often enough any partners he had. Elzo adored summer, mainly for the fact he could wear lighter clothes and go swimming frequently. And while he knew he still needed to do a fair deal of work back at the office, he had been working round the clock as of later with the vacation season in full swing, the man wasn’t so stupid as his brother to work himself half to death.
Marlo was busy with Hope and twins, while Elzo had his own beanbugs to contend with- and their nanny was also due for a day off. She was a blessing really, but between working himself ragged and his want of a view outside of his office walls, a scavenger hunt seemed just the thing to break up the monotony.

“Okay kiddos.” He picked up Andino first, who made spit bubbles at him before squirming uncontrollably until he was sat down in his seat of the stroller. The left side- as Elzo had come to find out, Andino rather disliked not being able to grab at things with his dominant hand. Shealin came next giggling happily as Elzo whispered little compliments to her in italian. She was much easier than her brother when they went out- it was taking her home and putting her to bed that was the fight.

“Daddy think this will be a nice adventure- so no biting each other or trying to steal each other’s toys.” He barely said this before Shealin threw her stuff dinosaur off the sidewalk and into the street. “Shea-” he sighed, retrieving it and handing it back to her. He gave her his most stern frown- it would be enough to dissuade her for a bit. “Okay.” He started making car engine sounds for them, and hearing their giggling laughter made his heart swell. Scanvenger hunt or not, he loved his children- and a day out would do them good.
“Nyroooo-” He started his jog, the kids squealing in delight as he ran down the path of the park, minding his speed and the fact Andino was rocking himself back and forth as if he’d break free at any given moment in time.

Eventually, Elzo did slow, settling them by a fountain, pulling his phone free to check the scavenger hunt list. Most things would be simple enough, nothing too bad- but then, he often didn’t bother with taking photos of things that really, would have fit here a lot better than just going out and doing things and finding things all in one day.
“Okay.” He said, picking up the plush dino for the fourth time that day, much to the twin’s delight. “Now- what do you think we should do first?”
“Brgglllth!” “Mrryyypffff.” Yes, very good decisions he thought. Wise and sound reasoning as well.
“You’re right, we shouldn’t rush it.” He took a photo of them both, making them fuss- they didn’t like the whrr and click of a camera, even if it was just the one on the phone making the sound. “Aw shoot.” They started pouting. Oh boy- time to start another jog. “This is going to take longer than I thought...”

Scavenger Hunt #2:
1. Something Beautiful My fav waterfall/park
2. Something Exciting fite me kyu
3. Something Creative CRAFTING MATERIALS
4. Something Cute Self explanatory
5. Something Delicious borger
6. Something Growing We left the onion on the counter to0 long
7. Something Loved frens
8. Something New A new horse for a carousel
9. Something Old Day old bread
10. Something Hopeful Silent Hill is real and it's in Idaho

Scavenger Hunt #1:
1. A Piece of Art: [x]
2. An Animal: [x]
3. A Smile: [x]
4. A Plant: [x]
5. A Delicacy: [x]
6: A Treasure: [x]
7. A Monument: [x]
8. A Gathering: [x]
9. A Memory: [x]
10. A Game: [x]

(all images come from my sad MS Paint attempts :3 )

There was no way that Liryn was going to miss out on taking part in the scavenger hunt - especially not given the fact that it gave him an excuse to explore the city, which was one of his favourite things to do anyway.

There was just one, small problem, a somewhat teensy problem in fact - in that whilst the competition was apparently open to all. all did not include participants of the feline variety–

Particularly not those of the speaking feline variety.

There was also the fact that Liryn knew that if he wandered around the city in the other form that there was a chance that he would draw too much unwelcome attention - because whilst he enjoyed a wander around, he didn't really want either youma or other Negaverse officers to gatecrash said wanderings.

Fortunately, Arian had been pretty easygoing about being roped into doing the actual entering and acting as legwork, which meant that the problem hadn't turned out to be a insurmountable one–

And it was how the pair of them had ended up being out and about, with Arian toting both portable camera and notepad both.

They - well he - had opted for the first of the two lists on offer, seeing it as creating more opportunity for them to cover as much of the city as possible, with the first stop being the city zoo.

A snap of a cute-looking bear cub had covered list item number 2 and a shop en route to said zoo had had a painting in the window and a shop owner that had been good-natured about Arian snapping it, had covered list item number 1, which had in turn allowed them to cross off two items from the list.

A smiley badge at the zoo had covered list item number 3, particularly as he had eventually managed to talk Arian into using his phone to take a selfie of himself smiling - and yes it was a smile and not a grimace - whilst wearing said badge.

A trip to a garden centre had allowed them to cross off list items number 4 and number 5 both, with Arian agreeing to drop off the plant (item number 4) that they had ended buying at his cousin's place later on in the day and the two of them sharing a delicious slice of cake (item number 5).

A snap by the obelisk had covered item number 7. followed by a trip to the museum where some old coins had seemed interesting and - at least in Liryn's opinion - totally covered item number 6–

And whilst a part of Liryn couldn't help but feel a little sad that he hadn't been able to get away with slipping into the museum, Arian had also picked up a post card of the coins for him and had taken a picture of him with them - although that wasn't the one that they were going to submit.

They had passed a group of people, on the way back from the museum and the group had been okay about Arian taking a picture of them which meant that they had had item number 8 covered and a trip to Arian's cousin's apartment had covered item number 10 in the form of a game of draughts.

Eventually the two of them had ended back at their own apartment, and it was there that Arian fished out the picture that would end up covering the final item on their list - with the snowy picture of a past trip to the woods covering item number 9 nicely–

And with the last item checked off, Arian had carefully filled out the form for submission and had let Liryn ink a paw print next to his signature.

All in all it had made for a very enjoyable day, especially as his dark-haired friend had also produced some salmon sandwiches for him.

All in all a great end to a great day.

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Ticket List

1. Sweenys_Revenge
   
2. Epine de Rose
   
3. iStoleYurVamps
   
4. Indigo_Plateau
   
5. litian
   
6. Orangeish Sherbert

Ticket List

1. Epine de Rose
   
2. iStoleYurVamps
   
3. litian
   
4. Orangeish Sherbert