by Ben
To Wisconsin and Other Places
The next morning they decided to go home because they were bored. Then, Ted had an idea. He said, “Let’s go to Wisconsin. It might not be so boring there.”
“Yes! That’s a good idea!” Carrie shouted for joy.
So they bought tickets and got on the ship. The next three days were spent on the ship as it rocked along on the waves. Once again, Ted was almost always in the pool. He liked to go in the indoor pool (which was 90 degrees) and then walk out to the outside pool (which was 63 degrees). When he saw the pool, it reminded him of pool, so he asked if there was a pool table. There was, so he and Carrie spent three hours playing pool. Finally, they landed at the New York harbor where they got off and drove to Wisconsin. In the car they watched cartoons. They watched cartoons because the first three letters in cartoons spell car. They rented a room in a hotel and the next day they were in Wisconsin. “What a busy day!” Ted sighed.
They spent a week at a place called Wisconsin Dells. Ted really liked jumping off big rocks, hiking, and blazing trails.
“I knew we would have more fun in Wisconsin than in Greenland,” Ted told everybody. “Maybe we could stop at Kansas City just to see if there’s anything fun there.”
“Yeah,” Carrie said. “Whose idea was it to go to Greenland anyway?”
“That was Mom and Dad’s idea,” Ted answered.
“We thought you might want to see a polar bear,” Dad said quickly.
“Oh!” Ted laughed. “I forgot to tell you that I did see a polar bear!”
Ted told them about meeting a polar bear.
“Ok,” Dad said, “We will stay here for a day yet and go on some quarter mile water slides.”
They went to a huge amusement park and had a lot of fun on water slides and roller coasters. One roller coaster was three miles long and very wild (that’s how Ted likes them). The next day they went to Kansas City. They found out that it was even more boring than Greenland.
“Maybe we could go to Arizona and see the Grand Canyon,” Ted suggested.
They did. They took a train to Arizona and hiked down to the very bottom of the canyon.
“I didn’t know it was such a long hike!” Carrie commented.
“Yes,” Mom said. “It’s a very long hike.”
The next day they decided to go home because they all had enough vacation. They arrived just in time to see some smoke coming out their window. Ted ran around and saw a fire on the side of the house. He ran around and told Dad, and meanwhile he got the garden hose and started spraying water on it. Dad called the fire department and they got it put out. Not too much harm was done.
“I’m glad we came home when we did,” Ted said. “Otherwise our house could have been burned down!”
THE END.
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