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geniequestria · 1 year

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Down in Roseluck's basement. Daisy and Lily have their hooves wrapped around each other as they shiver in fear. Just moments ago, their dear friend Roseluck was with them, but then in a freak instance. A magic flash enveloped their fellow flower pony, her screams traumatizing her two friends as she vanished before their very eyes. Now quite worried about the safety of their friend, they seek each other for comfort. It's been at least a good few minutes since Roseluck had disappeared

"L-l-l-l-lily, i-i-i'm s-scared! I... t-t-think the s-s-s-s-Storm King has k-k-kidnapped Rose!"

"I-I don't know what to do! This is a disaster!" Lily held Daisy close, fearing that they might be next. It took everything in her willpower to not faint like she usually would in a stressful situation. "W-why… why would he kidnap Rose!? What if… what if she's not the only one who was taken?! What if we're next!?" The horror of the situation was making her mind jump to some very dark conclusions. "W-w-we have to get s-somepony to help! Oh, but what if he's already gotten to Princess Twilight and the others too? I wish we knew if she was at least safe...."

As if on cue, and conveniently after Lily's wish. Another bright flash appears, both mares freak out and hug each other tighter in at least an attempt to save the other from disappearing or at the very least going with them. For if the Storm King is going to enslave them, best they try to have a friend with them. The flash soon disappears as fast as it came in, and they each peek one eye out. And see they're both in the basement still, relieved that neither of them were captured too. Though then they look at the center of the room, and they gasp.

"Hi girls!! I'm back!" Roseluck cheerfully smiled with her hooves raised in the air as she returned to her friends, seemingly safe, and oddly joyful as ever.

The sudden flash caused Lily to scream… that scream of terror is soon replaced by one of joy. Tears filled her eyes as she saw Roseluck suddenly appear in front of them. "ROSE!! YOU'RE OK!" Lily wiped her eyes.

They were both half filled with joy, but also quite unnerved. As Roseluck had not returned as she had looked before she came back. An exotic garb had adorned her face, ears, and hooves... and her lower half was completely gone! Where her hindlegs and tail would be was a floating, waving different kind of tail that started from Roseluck's hips and were anchored by a vase.

"We thought the Storm King had taken you, and that we'd be next! What happened and..." She now got a good look at Rose's attire and the fact that she was floating above them… along with the vase she was supposedly coming out of. Her mind once again jumped to conclusions. "NOOOOO! ROSE HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A FANCILY DRESSED GHOST! THE HORROR, THE HORROR!!!" She looked like she was about to faint once again.

Roseluck quickly flew to Lily's side. "No no no no! It's ok! I'm not a ghost! Nor am I dead, if anything, I'm the exact opposite! I'm immortal now! But girls, I have so much news to tell you!"

"News?! You mean like... good and bad news...?!" Daisy shivered

Roseluck giggled "No! It's more like I have good news... AND EVEN BETTER NEWS!" She beamed an infectious wide grin and raised her hooves in the air.

"So… you're not a ghost… whew… ok..." Lily calmed down a bit but this new appearance was still a bit off-putting to the easily skittish mare. "Wh-what kind of good and even better news do you have? And… how did you become immortal? Or get these new clothes? Did..." she gasps again "Did you MARRY the Storm King to garner a deal with Equestria?! A-and he's given you powers and a new outfit!?" Clearly she can't help herself but jump to conclusions, that or she's been reading too many romance novels.

Daisy raised an eyebrow, that guess was a bit over-the-top even for Lily's usual conclusions.

Whereas Roseluck giggles outloud. "Hehe, that's not it either! But I'll start with the regular ol' good news. The Storm King has been defeated! I don't know how exactly. But I just met and got word from this mare named Starlight that told me as well as Twilight and friends that the Storm King is no longer a threat! Equestria is in the clear!"

"w-w-w-w-w-WHHHHAAAAAAAT?! You m-mean... we're... s-s-s-safe?! But… wait… How is that ONLY the good news?!" Daisy has a skeptical face, feeling like like this has to be too good to be true

Lily did feel a bit sheepish about her out there guess. But this news was welcome indeed. Lily beamed, pulling the two into a big hug. "That's wonderful! We don't have to live in fear of him now!" She let out a very relieved sigh. "But I'm with Daisy, how could there be BETTER news than that!? Equestria's been in a tizzy since his declaration of invasion!"

"Tee hee! Coincidentally, it involves the same mare who broke the news! I don't know her past or anything, but she's absolutely amazing! She happens to be a real-life, honest-to-goodness genie! AND SHE TRANSFORMED ME INTO ONE TOO!"

"W-W-W-W-WHAAAAAAAT?! GENIES?!" Now that made Lily's guess seem normal by comparison. Even if the evidence seems to be staring right in front of them, the attire, Roseluck's missing lower half, and the vase on the floor that Roseluck seemed to be connected to.

At least Lily's guess was based on a Beauty of the Beast-type fantasy that can technically happen in Equestria. As there have been, albeit fairly rare, cases of Ponies romancing dragons and yaks. But genies seem completely out of the question. Even for a magical land like Equestria.

Lily's mind felt like it had just short circuited, this was almost too fantastical to believe even for her. "Genies are real?? YOU'RE A GENIE NOW?! CAN YOU GRANT WISHES AND DO ALL SORTS OF IMPOSSIBLE THINGS?!" Even with floating proof right there in front of them, it would take more time to really sink in. "So this Starlight must be absolutely incredible! Some kind of hero genie to work with the Elements of Harmony! That would also explain why you're floating from this vase!" She points towards Rose's vessel.

Getting a good look at it, she's quite impressed by the quality. "I have to say it looks quite impressive too! Got your cutie mark on it! Though it does look a little different… that's weird... Still! Imagine what we could do for our shop if we had more like yours to sell flowers in! I think they'd look great in them, and we could have the flowers painted on like yours too!" Something comes across Lily's mind "But I'm still confused, why were you taken in the first place?"

"Apparently, Twilight and friends wished from Starlight for me to be there, and they asked me to receive the Element of Kindness. Twilight apparently wanted me to substitute for Fluttershy for some reason. I admit that because of both the Storm King being defeated and becoming a genie has made me so happy... I forgot much of what Twilight told me! But regardless of the circumstances, I was blessed with overwhelming feelings of kindness! I passed down free roses to everypony I saw mere moments after receiving the necklace!" She beamed a grin, and had stars in her eyes.

"SO YOU'RE THE ELEMENT OF KINDNESS NOW TOO!?" Lily felt like she was going to faint from information overload, if she wasn't seeing Rose in front of her right now, she wouldn't be believing any of it. "I just… I can't..." She put a hoof to her head. "This is just so much to take in, Rose.... you're gonna give me a heart attack! Next you'll be telling us that you're going to be crowned a princess or something even more insane! I don't think I can take any more shocks!"

Daisy just about has a migraine from all this information filling her head, and much of her is admittedly a little skeptical of all of this being true. "I don't know, Rose... this seems all so farfetched... I think you need to back it up with some solid proof..."

Roseluck nods "Understood, it should be easy enough to prove! All I need to do… is to grant a wish from each of you. So go ahead, girls. What do you desire?" She smiles in anticipation for her first granted wishes.

"A wish? Yeah! That would give us both solid proof this is all real!" She puts a hoof to her chin. "But what do I wish for....?" Lily looks very focused, thinking on what might be good. (Do I get something for the shop? No… no, I'd like to improve that with all three of us working together, that's what makes it fun...wait I know!) As if a light went off in her head, Lily speaks up. "Ok Rose, you know how we always have our fair share of panic attacks? I always hoped that some day these fainting spells and freak outs would come to an end. SO, I wish you could make me less prone to fainting and being so freaked out from every little thing! I know it's not like something physical, but that should still work... right?"

Daisy herself seems deep in thought as she thinks what she should wish for first. "Say, wait, before I make the wish... you aren't like... limited to 3 wishes and then you're stuck in a cave for thousands of years are you?! Because if that's the case... I'd rather make no wishes at all..."

Roseluck shakes her head and smiles "Nah, don't worry Daisy! That was just a narrative limit for stories like Aladdin. As otherwise the heroes would win too easily, actual genies are far more free then you could ever believe! You two could have as many wishes as you want, so feel no need to pressure yourselves"

That comes as a relief to the both of them. "In that case, I'll start with something simple. I heard Lily mention your vase. And I have to agree, it's a beautiful vase. I wish we each had one of our very own!"

Lily smiles at Daisy, thinking that both of these wishes are good, one being physical the other being more internalized. And the explanation of how genie wishes really work makes Lily a bit excited for any future wishes to come. With Rose being their friend, they'd have access to infinite wishes, but she didn't want to take advantage either.

Roseluck takes some time to think over both these wishes. And after a brief self-deliberation, she begins to giggle madly. "Hehehehe.... ahehehehehe~. I was hoping you both would ask for a wish in this manner~. Cause I know just the thing... that will grow two seeds with one drop of water!"

Lily’s thought process was shaken as Rose began to laugh. It sounded almost… villainous. "R-Rose? Why are you laughing like that?" She'd never heard such a tone from her friend before. Her mind jumped to conclusions yet again "Don't tell me… were you… possessed by some spirit?! The storm king has returned to haunt you for taunting him?! Your laugh is scaring me!"

Roseluck immediately calms down her laughter "Sorry Lily, I didn't mean to scare you. I was just thinking how much I was going to enjoy granting these two wishes, and how happy the three of us will be… for all-time!~ But let's start off with Daisy's wish..."

Roseluck raises her hooves that glow with red rose-colored magic.

"D-don't scare me like that!" She did calm down a little but she was still on edge hearing her friend sound like that at all. Watching her use magic for the first time did put some of these thoughts aside. Being earth ponies, the thought of ever being able to cast a spell only seemed possible in their wildest dreams. She looked in awe at the magic coming from Rose's hooves.

Soon, two vases fade into existence right in front of Daisy and Lily. Each one painted the same color as their respective coats and a stopper of similar color to their manes and tails. Neither of them had the cutie mark insignia like it does on Roseluck, but they otherwise matched the exact shape and size as Roseluck's own vase.

Daisy approaches her vase with stars in her eyes. She could see a warped reflection of herself with how clean and smooth it was. "Wow...." is all Daisy could mutter as she observes the vase from up close.

"Amazing!" Lily trotted over to her own vase, there was a shine to it that she couldn't take her eyes off of. "It's so… pretty. Guess we'll have to paint our marks on it, huh? That could be a fun project! Oooh, and we could sell something like this for the shop! Personalized vases!" Before she let herself get distracted any further, she looked back to Rose ``Oh right! Now it's my turn right?"

Roseluck nods "Mmhmm, and believe it or not. The secret to your wish... will be found inside your vase~. And Daisy, I know you have some of your own fears even if you don't jump to conclusions as often as Lily does. But in a way, I still granted Lily's wish for you too! Inside these vases, are the secret to all of us never fearing anything ever again!"

Daisy raises an eyebrow in skepticism "Something... inside these vases... are supposed to clear any fear of ours for good? Even for a genie this sounds unlikely..."

"Why don't you open the vase for yourself then, Daisy? And take a look inside~" Roseluck smirks.

Daisy shrugs "Well... if you say so..." Daisy takes off the topper with her mouth and looks down into the barrel. At the same time, Roseluck secretly locks the door to her basement from the other side with a brief flick of a hoof behind her back.

The way Rose explained how her wish was granted confused Lily. "The answer is… inside the vase? I didn't think it'd be something physical that would just make us not so scared… but why not just bring it out here? I'm with Daisy on this one, it just sounds really unlikely..." She watches as Daisy opens her vase first. There's a faint 'click!' in the distance but with Lily and Daisy focused on the vases, they couldn't hear it.

In the rather dimly lit basement, Daisy can't see anything but pitch black with not much light shining in the vessel for her to see what's inside.

"What do you see Daisy?" Lily asked curiously

Daisy moves her head away from the vessel to look toward Rose

"It’s too dimly lit in here to see anything in there, Lily. But either way… I don't know about this, Rose... there doesn't seem to be anything i-i-i-i-iNNNNNNNN HEEEEEERRRRR-AHHHHHMMMMMMMMMHHHHHHHMPPpphhh!"

The vase pulls in Daisy's nose, and quickly muffles Daisy's shrieks as her mouth enters. She puts her hooves on the edges of the vase instinctively to try to pull herself out, but that only helps the vessel faster as her own hooves follow her head and neck.

Knowing full well this was going to make Lily run straight for the door, or failing that, a corner of the room. Roseluck opens Lily's vase and points it towards her.

Lily screamed when she witnessed her friend's face and head stretch straight into the vase that Roseluck had created for her "DAISY!!! ROSE, WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!? WHY DID THAT HAPPEN?!" Her heart rate skyrockets, immediately panicking as her fight or flight responses take over. She fumbles about with her hooves, trying to run, but the door wasn't getting any closer… in fact it felt like she was getting pulled back.

"No, NOOOO!!!" She looked back to see that Rose had opened up her own vase, and it was sucking her in! Her blond tail elongated first, followed by her hindlegs. She looked like she was about to cry. "Rose, we're your friends! Wh-wh-why are you doing this to us?!"

"I understand your fear, Lily. But this is a necessary step in the process, and I don't mean in a face your fear kind of way. Allow me to at least clear your last feelings of uncertainty. I am giving you two none other than the kindest gift I can think to give… we will all be genies together! Making each other's wishes come true, and spreading this joy to others like a flower spreading its pollen... And with the power we will have, nothing will ever scare us again!" Roseluck knows that Lily's fear isn't going to make this easier. Roseluck was just about entirely willing throughout her entire transformation even before her hooves touched the vase, so she's not entirely aware of the vessel's ability to make even the most reluctant ponies bend to its will. But she hopes once Lily is released, she'll understand.

At the same time, Daisy's hindlegs and pony tail have been lifted off the ground. Daisy's hooves kick wildly for a moment before they slowed down as if suddenly Daisy began to accept her fate. For Lily, more and more of her tail is pulled within the vessel. Dragging her slowly towards the vase's opening. Her hindlegs swirl around each other and merge until Lily has the same sort of half-body column of smoke that Roseluck has had the entire time.

"That all sounds nice… B-b-but that's not what I wished for! I didn't ask to be a genie! It's not what Daisy wished for either! Please, j-just make this stop, Rose! This isn't like you at all!" Despite her tail and hindlegs getting sucked in already, Lily still tried to run, she knew it was futile but she had to try anyway.

She could see that Daisy had already been sucked in about halfway in, panicking similarly to her… then she stopped. "D-Daisy?! Rose, this is just horri..." The elongated tail that was her hindlegs connected to the vase at last, an electrifying tingle rocks through her body, her mind opening up like a flower in bloom. "Horri.... Hoooooo~ ....wh-what is this~? It's the... furthest thing from a horrible disaster..."

Her scared expression shifts to a pleasured looking one. Lily stopped trying to run as she let the vase now suck her in further. up past her hips. "R-rose, why didn't you start with this.... instead of… ooooh~... scaring us....?"

Roseluck lets out a small gasp seeing how quickly Lily turned around "Huh... I'm as surprised as you are if I'm honest, Lily... when I was being transformed. I wasn't even scared, I was still reeling from the effects of the Element of Kindness overwhelming me. I did remember it being particularly.... pleasurable when it got to where you are now. But I didn't know it'd be capable of calming you so quickly, so I apologize... Granted... I imagine the fact I didn't warn you when I thought you'd be kicking and screaming the whole way in is rather deceptive of me... but I promise I held no ill intentions. Just let your vase smooth all your fears and worries away~"

Next to Roseluck and Lily, Daisy's hindlegs straighten up in one last kick before they slip into the vessel. All that's left was Daisy's green ponytail, which quickly gets slurped up like a noodle by the vase. The vase's stopper falls onto the opening, sealing Daisy inside. Daisy's cutie mark, albeit slightly changed, starts fading onto the side.

Lily puts her hooves behind her back as she floats vertically above her vase. The sensation and tingling only increased the more of her enters the vase. She starts getting pinched down, her body making an upside down cone shape with her shoulders and head being the widest part of her body while the rest of her body seems to have formed a near triangle above her vase. She squirms as her forehooves enter the vessel, but not as an attempt to escape. The pleasure's simply making her shake in ecstasy.

Most of what Rose told her seemed to fall on deaf ears. Her mind was too absorbed by the pleasurable feelings to really understand. But she did hear the apology "It'ssssss fine now… I forgive… oooooh~… you, Rose." All of her fears, worries, doubts, they all seemed to just fade away as she was sucked further in. As she leaned her body back, the sensations continued to get stronger, until... "AAAAHHHH~!!" One last moan that echoes throughout the basement as the 3rd member of the trio completes her genification.

Like Daisy's vase, the top for hers seals it shut, the three lilies that made up Lily's cutie mark slowly took shape on the vase with all of them being stretched downward.

Both vases rumbled as they were fully sealed, the transformation having been complete. All that needed to be done now was for Rose to let her flowery genie friends bloom into a new phase of their lives.

Roseluck claps her hooves together and thinks to herself (That was fun! Can't wait to do this again but as a proper genie trio!). She then lifts open the stoppers, the vessels trembling before releasing two different shades of pink with green and blonde sparks rising all the way to the ceiling. The ends of the smokes form into the silhouettes of the two flower ponies, before the both of them fade in, Daisy's veil and leggings are green while Lily's are a bright white. The two let out long satisfied sighs as their emergence completes.

"That... was certainly a ride... but a ride I wouldn't mind going on again~" Daisy's eyes go lidded as she basks in the transformation she just received.

Lily bursts out of her vase, the magical clouds that emerged with her looking like pollen that had just been released. She takes a moment to really adjust to this, examining her new jewelry and white veils. The genie magic flowed through her freely, in her mind it felt as if she'd been unshackled from her previous thinking. There was no longer fear within her, but excitement. "Gosh, I feel like a whole new me! It really was scary at first, but now I think I could take on just about anything! But most importantly...." She swirls around the other two, pulling them into a hug "We can be together like this, forever!!"

Roseluck and Daisy return the hug. "I'm glad the both of you love it, too! Now how about we relax, and make the gardens of our dreams within our vessels... and tomorrow... I think we should make plans to visit Junebug~" Roseluck suggested with a smile

Daisy beamed putting her forehooves on her cheeks "Ooooo, yes! Junebug must absolutely join us for this! Flower ponies, pollinating the world with our wondrous magic!"

"You didn't tell us we could do that! Oooh I know just how I'll be setting it all up too! This will mean we can grow anything in any season without worry!" Lily's eyes lit up at this plan. "That's a wonderful idea! With Junebug with us, we can make the world a better, more flowery place! Why keep this all to ourselves?"

The trio then each enter their own vessel to construct a field of their favorite flowers all around them. Roses, Daisies, and Lilies respectively. When they were done, the trio entered eachother's vessels and marveled at every one of their best friends' fields. They'll have plenty to do and talk about, before they let in a 4th pony in on their wonderful transformations and endless, never-ending gardens..

SIDE STORIES

FOLLOW THE FLOWER TRIO TO WHEN THEY VISIT JUNEBUG

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hallmark-movie-fanatics · 5 years

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Carlos & Alexa PenaVega on 'Picture Perfect Mysteries': Sam & Allie 'Butt Heads a Lot'

By Meredith Jacobs June 14, 2019

Alexa and Carlos PenaVega have gone from reuniting at a hotel at Christmas to working together on a cruise ship to solving a murder together on Hallmark.

Alexa plays the wedding photographer who begins her own investigation after a murder in her town to her real-life husband Carlos' detective who's assigned to the case, and as viewers have come to expect from these movies, they're not going to get along in the beginning.

TV Insider spoke with the PenaVegas about Picture Perfect Mysteries: Newlywed and Dead, crime-solving, and how their Hallmark characters would do if they switched movies.

Can you start with a preview of your characters and the murder mystery they're both trying to solve?

Alexa PenaVega: I play Allie Adams. She is a wedding photographer, and at her friend's wedding that she's shooting, there actually ends up being a murder. From there, she ends up meeting Mr. Detective Sam Acosta.

Carlos PenaVega: I wouldn't say he's uptight, he's just by the book. He's a New York City cop now living in a really small town, so he's got to get adjusted to the small town life.

Alexa: From there, she kind of gets in his way to try to solve who did this and who's guilty, but through all of her pictures from the wedding and the different information she receives, she's very much on board to figure out who did this.

What are Allie and Sam's first impressions of each other, and how do those impressions change throughout the movie?

Alexa: For Allie, a lot is happening at once. This is not something she is used to, especially [since] it was her friend's wedding, so I think she's just really overwhelmed. She's trying to make sense of it all, whereas Detective Sam is there to do his job. So I don't think they really thought of each other very much.

However, the more and more Allie gets involved with the logistics of the case, she starts to get in Sam's way. She starts to make some very valid points. She starts finding clues that he missed, and I don't think he likes that very much. He really feels like his toes are being stepped on, and she gets annoyed with him because he is so by-the-book that they butt heads a lot but it's fun to watch.

Carlos: Our relationship from the beginning is really cool because normally every Hallmark movie that we do, we're always falling in love right away, and this one is the complete opposite. They butt heads from the beginning, but then as the story continues, they slowly start to realize that they have a lot in common, but in this first movie, it's just not enough to get them to be like, "Oh, there's something there."

What makes each a good investigator and what do they admire and respect about the other's way of crime-solving?

Carlos: Sam's a great investigator because he is by-the-book, and the book may not be right, but there's a reason why people do things a certain way in life. It's because 90% of the time, it works, but I think he admires Allie's sense of freedom, being free and opening up her mind to different scenarios. I think he really needs that in his life, which is why he's open to, "Okay, cool, I'll let you help me."

Alexa: What makes her a good investigator is as a photographer, you really have to find special moments in the shot. It's not just what's in front of you. It's about everything that's in the surrounding area, finding unique things, and I think because she has that artistic eye, she's able to look at a murder scene in a very different way than somebody else would approach it. She looks at it from the eye of an artist, so I think it gives her almost like a super-vision in a weird way.

But between her and Acosta, it's not that he's a bad detective because I think she admires his work, it's that she wants him to think outside of the box a little bit more. For Allie, her brother is unfortunately one of the people who is a suspect at the wedding as the shooter, so she's doing everything she can to protect her brother and prove his innocence.

Can you talk about the other characters we'll meet in Allie and Sam's lives?

Carlos: Nick's my partner. Sam's never had a partner before, so it's, again, another new thing in this small town to have someone who he has to work with, and I think in the beginning, yes, he is very hesitant.

But there is something comforting knowing that you have this — Nick's quite a bit older than Sam, so it's like you've got this vet who's been around, and even though the young guy, Sam, thinks that he knows more, those old timers always know the ropes, so I think it's really fun to see. That dynamic is great, and then as they learn to work together, the banter and the connection between them, it's really fun to watch, which I'm super-excited for everyone to see.

Alexa: Allie's assistant, Noah, is awesome because he is [her] right-hand man. He's there to support her, help her out, and he's got so much humor and adds a lot of fun banter between the two of them. There's a lot of fun comedy, there are some serious moments, and I think people are really going to like it.

If there is another movie, what would you want to explore for your character or each other's character?

Alexa: Because Sam is new to this small town, I really feel like being able to watch Sam maybe open up a little bit more. We don't know a whole lot about him. We don't know what happened in New York, what made him leave New York, so I think there are a lot of unanswered questions that we all want to know the answer to about his life.

And the same thing with Allie. She had a bad relationship before; we don't know a lot about what happened there. I think with her, she is just growing in her business and becoming more confident.

And there is a moment in the movie where Sam tells her, "You should step out of your shell and do what it is that you want to do." Wedding photography was not something that she wanted to get into. She loves more of the artistic side of photography, and I'm curious to see if that develops more in future projects.

How do you think your Love at Sea or Enchanted Christmas characters would handle being in Picture Perfect Mysteries and vice versa?

Alexa: I feel like Love at Sea, we are such problem solvers in that movie that we would handle a mystery very, very well. Those characters worked so well together. They problem-solved. They made things happen. They were very creative. I think they'd be really good at it.

And Enchanted Christmas, I think that both would have probably a hard time solving a mystery, probably because there was already a lot of residual pain from different relationships, from the relationship that they had with one another.

And as far as putting Allie and Sam in those other two scenarios, it would be hilarious. Sam is just so uptight that I don't know how he would fare on a cruise ship or at a big dance recital, whereas Allie could probably go with the flow a little better than Sam could.

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https://www.tvinsider.com/786409/picture-perfect-mysteries-carlos-alexa-penavega/

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thedaveandkimmershow · 3 years

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Well, it turns out once you start noticing things… you keep noticing things. And yeah. This time around, between yesterday and today, there are still a few worthy of mention.

First off, special thanks to the bartenders at Atomic Tonic. They don't even wanna be bartenders yet they have it nailed at an insane level of hospitality, personality, and service. They know the business they're in like you wouldn't believe. They know how to build relationship with customers that translates directly to loyalty.

They really are operating at a level well beyond the job they do.

So… what do they wanna be?

A surgeon. And a pathologist.

No joke. These kids are aiming high. And they've got the bandwidth to do it, too.

On a similar note, the entire crew at The Hideaway Bar & Grill. Not a prestige gig, not super high profile. Just a tiny grill tucked away by the side of a swimming pool with master-level customer service, insanely fast turnaround on orders, and the best.

Tasting.

Burgers.

Ever.

It's one of those experiences where you usually get to have maybe one or two of those things but never three. Yet here it was. All three.

Good grief, we passed our praises along to the cook afterward.

Another thing we noticed was that once you make lounging a way of life it's easy to pass on all the tempting activities it seems we should be doing.

Haha. NOPE. We're in recharging mode… not draining our batteries mode.

It's also nice to see families and friends just enjoying themselves. Having good times together even in the most basic of activities.

I don't know what to tell you. Over the last years, with the narrow view on the world available through the web, it's easy to develop and sustain a pretty dim view of "other people". And maybe seeing such a cross section of humanity all having fun at night at the pool… was just.

Nice. 🙂

Kudos to that dad, by the way, who took his tiny daughter off his wife's hands because this little girl was making these high pitched vocalizations. She wasn't in distress. Not in pain or seeming frustration. Just… making these super high pitch sounds.

So he takes her in his arms and heads purposefully in another direction, bouncing her like a pony as he walks until they reach a huge screen displaying sports graphics that he starts pointing at.

And guess what?

His daughter wasn't high pitching anymore.

Well done, sir. Well done.

'Nother thing we noticed is that faced with a packed crowd in a cafeteria… we're both NOPE. Turned around. Headed out the building. Which is how we ended up by the pool with the best.

Burger.

Ever.

Also during our bouts of lounging in our room, we got a super clear look at the Black Widow movie. We actually saw it celebrating Father's Day… but it was such a bright sunny day we really couldn't get it dark in our living room no matter how many sheets and blankets we hung in front of the windows. We were projecting the movie onto our wall, see, so the resulting image was less than ideal.

So finally being able to see it… underscored how funny and intense and tragic the movie is. How amazing. What great all-around filmmaking.

Noticed this morning that even though the girls are grown and well traveled, we still sweat the details, their travel details, anyway.

The reality, of course, is that they've been there, done this, and can always call with questions or do what adults all over the world do when they run into a travel question: Google it.

A different thing we noticed today (although we already knew it's an ability firmly in our wheelhouse) is that we bussed and walk to Universal's City Walk intent on having breakfast at Antojitos Authentic Mexican Food which I thought opened at 8AM with the rest of City Walk.

Unfortunately… no. No it doesn't. The restaurant actually doesn't open 'til four in the afternoon so we just turned the experience into a photo op and went looking elsewhere for breakfast.

It didn't make long 'cause Hard Rock's bar was on Kimmer's mind ever since we tried to stop in there Thursday night when it was packed.

This time, though, around noon, yeah. No problem. Two seats. Right at the bar where we splurged on barbecue wings. Something else we noticed before even on the first night is that a bar down here's literally just the physical bar and the seats perched in front of it. There's no bar area. Just the stools at the bar.

And the tables just a few feet away along the wall?

Those belong to the restaurant.

Always always always.

We talked nut allergies with Lee from the hard Rock. Then because just then it was metal playing from the overhead speakers we talked a touch of metal and he talked about doing mosh pits in his twenties whereas now whenever he and his wife buy tickets to a concert the first thing they look for are seats.

Yeah.

Time definitely changes you.

And then it's Absanthe and "Dreams" playing overhead and on the video with melodic vocals interspersed with very aggressive vocals and then we're talking music with Sean who's still in his twenties and invincible. Then Paramour hits the air and now we're all talking Paramour and how our daughter took early inspiration from that band in her early days of musicianship and songwriting.

Leaving Universal, we're the first and only ones on the bus with the driver, a man born and raised in Florida whilst we were being born and raised in the opposite corner of the country. A genuinely cheerful man, it was fun to compare notes with him as he made sure to make each and everyone boarding his bus feel welcome.

So like I said, once you start noticing things the more you keep noticing things. Or, maybe a better way to put it is that it becomes super easy to give these brief moments with other human beings...

The credit they deserve.

🙂

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