October 3

How to Hon a School Trip

By Affison Katherine Miller

Yay! Today the whole fourth grade is going on a trip to a Real live Castle! Of course, we don't get many castles in Cocoa Beach, but apparently this one was shipped over from Europe stone by stone when the owner moved here. It must have been like doing the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world, fitting all the pieces back together again I wonder if there were any pieces missing of the end, like there usually are when I do a puzzle. I'll have to tell Mary to look out for holes in the walls!

Anyway, Mrs. Jasmine says we have to do a project on castles by next week, so I'm going to make sure I get lots of notes and draw loads of pictures. Dad got a book on knights out of the library for me, and it's actually really interesting.

I don't want anything to go wrong today, so that means Genie can't come. It's not that I don't think she's the coolest thing even it's just that wherever she goes, trouble sure follows. I hate to think what she might do in a castle with all her goofy magic. So that's that No little Genie on the school trip.

Absolutely no way.