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If I was Rodrick, I would've changed my story real quick and said I was just joking around to win the game. But Rodrick didn't seize his chance to bail out. NO, THERE WERE FOUR OF US! Mom had Dad pull over to the side of the road, then handed Rodrick her phone and made him call Mrs. Tuttle to apologize, which was awkward for everyone in the car. I'M SORRY FOR TOILET-PAPERING YOUR HOUSE... ...MA'AM. After that, it was quiet in the van for a long time. Mom was about to pop the next Spanish CD in the stereo, but luckily Manny had fallen asleep by then, so she couldn't.

If you wake Manny up in the middle of one of his naps, he'll go completely ballistic, and there's NO calming him down. So whenever Manny falls asleep, Mom and Dad do everything they can to KEEP him that way. I was big on haps when I was Mannys age, too. I used to take an hour-long nap after lunch every day, and when I started preschool, we had an official nap time where everyone pulled out a mat and slept on the floor.

If you ask me, I think they should give kids nap time all the way through college. But they stop doing it after preschool, which I found out the HARD way. On the first day of kindergarten, after we had our snacks, I asked the teacher where the mats were, so we could lie down and recharge our batteries. But she said kindergarthers don't HAVE nap time, and I thought she was just making a funny joke. YEAH, RIGHT!

A few minutes later the whole class was making paper bag puppets. Apparently, I was the only one who didn't get the heads-up about the no-nap thing, because for the rest of the day everyone else seemed fine, while I could barely function. I'm glad Mom remembered to bring a pacifier on the trip, because as long as Manny's got one stuck in his mouth, he can sleep through just about anything. Manny lost his favorite pacifier last night, but Dad ran out to get a new one at a store near our house that sells gag gifts.

I guess it looks a little strange, but it works just as well as a regular one. Manny had been sleeping peacefully for about an hour today when we stopped at a tollbooth. Dad rolled down his window to get a ticket, and the guy in the booth had such a loud voice he sounded like he was speaking through a MEGAPHONE. HOPE Y'ALL ARE HAVIN' AN AWESOME DAY!

Manny started to fuss, and his pacifier came halfway out of his mouth. But luckily Rodrick reacted quickly, and Manny fell back asleep. I think Mom was a little frustrated that Manny was napping in the first place. She had marked a bunch of places on her map where she wanted us to stop and get out for some sightseeing, but now we had to keep driving. The problem I had with Manny's nap was that I really needed to get out of the car and stretch, but I COULDN'T.