11 In the Grand Sand

CHAPTER 11 IN THE GRAND SAND By noon, we come to a desert. The good news is there's no more jungle. The bad news is there's a lot of sand. We're very thirsty. Unfortunately, there are no public water fountains. The only good thing about a desert is that if you add another s it would be a dessert!

Kids are dropping like flies. I've never seen a fly drop, but I've seen fly droppings. Anyway, it's hot, and it's lunchtime. I even miss the school cafeteria. I'm losing it. I ask if we can stop and eat. "Not until the lunch bell rings," says Mrs. Green. I hear a lot of bells.

Then I start seeing things.... A Pizza Mutt wiggling in the heat waves. A swimming pool full of rubber ducks. I even see a school bus. Wait, it is a school bus! It drives up. On the front of it are printed the words CLASS TRIP.

Mr. Fenderbender opens the door and I get on. All the kids are sitting there bright-eyed and excited.

Mrs. Green says we're going to the zoo to see a lot of wild animals. Hey, that's baby stuff. They're all in cages. A zoo is pretty tame after you've seen the real thing.

Maybe next time we'll blast off to a space station, climb Mount Everest, or water-ski up the Amazon River. Now that would be a trip!