Octonauts Texting

84. Christmas Market Chaos

When Shellington takes the Vegimals to a Christmas market. 

Online: JumpingJellyfish, CrunchyCarrots, TheKwaz, SuperStrength

(JumpingJellyfish is making an announcement over the Octopod radio system (Ryan))

TheKwaz: Tweak, u gave our radio system a name??? 

CrunchyCarrots: it deserves a name!!! We use it all the time! :D

SuperStrength: shush u two, Shellington's saying something 

JumpingJellyfish: don't ever take the Vegimals to a Christmas market 

JumpingJellyfish: ever. 

SuperStrength: um...

CrunchyCarrots: :/

TheKwaz: *whispers* what happened...? 

SuperStrength: was it bad...? :/

JumpingJellyfish: bad's not the word 

JumpingJellyfish: u don't even want to know what happened

CrunchyCarrots: we kinda do 

SuperStrength: r u ok Shellington? 

JumpingJellyfish: I JUST TOOK 16 OVEREXCITED VEGIMALS TO A CHRISTMAS MARKET 

JumpingJellyfish: DO YOU REALLY THINK I'M OK

TheKwaz: just tell us what happened :/

JumpingJellyfish: foolish cat. many things happened. 

TheKwaz: ...did he just... I'm very offended :(

CrunchyCarrots: lol

SuperStrength: ok so what happened :/

JumpingJellyfish: not even 10 minutes into this extremely chaotic shopping trip, Barrot managed to get stuck halfway up the giant Christmas tree, because he was trying to "reach the stars" 

JumpingJellyfish: he saw the stars through the glass roof and thought he could reach them if he climbed up the tree

JumpingJellyfish: the security people were not happy

CrunchyCarrots: looool XD 

JumpingJellyfish: No! There was no "lol" involved with this situation!

JumpingJellyfish: anyway, we got him down eventually, but not until the fire brigade had gotten involved, because no one had a ladder tall enough to reach him 

CrunchyCarrots: I think my lol still stands XD

SuperStrength: I'm surprised u didn't get kicked out after that XD

JumpingJellyfish: me too

JumpingJellyfish: but that wasn't even the last of it

JumpingJellyfish: Grouber discovered the food stands

TheKwaz: oh no...

JumpingJellyfish: oh no indeed 

JumpingJellyfish: he would not leave until he had taken a bite out of everything there was, and there was a lot 

JumpingJellyfish: so I decided to leave him there and continue shopping 

SuperStrength: did u actually end up buying anything? 

JumpingJellyfish: I got a few last-minute Christmas presents, but that's about it

JumpingJellyfish: Tomminow decided that she needed to try on every single outfit there was

JumpingJellyfish: and trust me, she looked absolutely adorable in fluffy socks and a beanie, but it took forever  to get her out of there 

CrunchyCarrots: Dashi would have loved to see that XD 

JumpingJellyfish: lucky I managed to get a photo for her then ;)

TheKwaz: what happened next? 

JumpingJellyfish: oh yeah, the Vegimals decided that they needed to go on the Santa's Sleigh ride -

SuperStrength: that's not so bad, is it?

JumpingJellyfish: - 15 TIMES 

SuperStrength: oh...

SuperStrength: I can see how that's bad 

JumpingJellyfish: so they had the time of their lives on that thing, chirping about how much fun they were having, and how they wanted me to go on with them 

JumpingJellyfish: and I couldn't say no to their cute little faces, so I went on

JumpingJellyfish: I felt quite dizzy afterwards, so they swarmed around me asking if I was ok, and about a gazillion people stopped to take pictures of them

CrunchyCarrots: well they are pretty cute...

JumpingJellyfish: they are, but not when they're force-feeding you Christmas pudding to try make you feel better 

TheKwaz: lol

JumpingJellyfish: after that, Sharchini almost got his flipper burned off after touching some fire that he thought was candy, so that was a fun trip to the nurse 

JumpingJellyfish: and don't even make me think about the carolling...

JumpingJellyfish: I didn't even know it was possible to fall into a tuba 

CrunchyCarrots: ...I'm not even going to ask :/

TheKwaz: that's probably safest XD

JumpingJellyfish: after the mess that was carolling, I took them to play in the snow, because stupid me thought nothing could go wrong...

JumpingJellyfish: but after 3 Vegimals fell in a hole, 2 got stuck in a giant ball of snow, and countless more trips to the nurse, I found out how that might not have been the greatest idea

JumpingJellyfish: and then Barrot saw a sign for Santa's Grotto...

SuperStrength: oh I see where this is going... XD

JumpingJellyfish: so we queued up for an hour, and when we finally got there, we were told there was too many of us, so I sent Tomminow and Tunip away to get some things

JumpingJellyfish: the rest of them all told Santa what they wanted... and I had to translate 

CrunchyCarrots: XD 

JumpingJellyfish: Grouber asked for more food, Codish said he wanted a new recipe for kelp cakes, and Barrot informed Santa that he wanted a tail like Kwazii's

TheKwaz: finally, someone is recognising my awesomeness ;)

JumpingJellyfish: anyway, then we went to pick up Tomminow and Tunip, where we found them at a vegetable stand, attempting to make small talk with a radish 

SuperStrength: which I suppose you would do, if you were half vegetable yourself XD 

JumpingJellyfish: yes, and Tomminow seems to be a fan of tomatoes, and I'm not entirely sure whether that's cannibalism or not 

CrunchyCarrots: XD XD XD XD XD XD XD 

TheKwaz: XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD 

JumpingJellyfish: by then I wasn't sure I could cope any longer, so I decided it was time to go home 

SuperStrength: so it was a slightly chaotic shopping trip then? XD

JumpingJellyfish: yes Captain, only slightly :/

Please... writing this was so unbelievably funny! XD I think this might be my favourite chapter so far...