"Thule!"

"Oh, cool. Thule has glaciers, right?"

He laughs. "Yes!"

"Canada has glaciers! I've never been far enough north to see one, but I've seen stuff they left behind."

"Glaciers are the best."

"The bogs that happen when they leave the right kind of gouges in the earth are pretty cool so it doesn't surprise me that the things that make them are cool."

"They're the prettiest geographic feature!"

"They're pretty and they leave cool stuff behind. Bogs have carnivorous plants!"

"Carnivorous plants are pretty cool," he acknowledges.

"Bogs are acidic instead of having good soil so some of the plants get their nutrients elsewhere."

"By eating bugs!"

"Yeah! And pitcher plants are pretty too."

"I don't think I've ever seen a pitcher plant. I mean, not in real life."

"I have!"

"Did you watch it eat something?"

"No," she admits.

"Aww. I would've fed it a bug."

"It was too far from the walkway to reach and the guide said if we tried anyway we could hurt something."

"Hurt yourself...?"

"Maybe but more likely some important plants or the sphagnum moss. The sphagnum moss is really important."

"What's important about it?"

"It's what makes a bog a bog and not a lake."

"...definitionally, or by ecological effects, or what?"

"By ecological effects."

"Huh."