Monday, November 26, 2007

The Conservatory


So after walking through about half of the ruins someone in our party looks down in this valley and spots what we think are Orange trees. We try to find a path down but we couldnt and finally found a sign that said there was a nature conservatory down in the valley. We walk down a short path and run into a woman in a small booth. She tells us we can all have a free orange from her basket of oranges and tells us a little about the conservatory. It all went in one ear and out the other because I think if the gods tasted these oranges they would switch from ambrosia. I ask her if i can buy some oranges and ask her to name her price. I got a huge back of oranges for 3E... I would have paid 50. Then we go down into the groves of trees in the valley and she tells us that they have 9 extinct species of oranges in the valley. We eat fruit off the trees even though its "strictly forbidden". They had a variety of orange called the "Sour Orange". Im going to order a crate of these.

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