4 Wonder Enlightening

CHAPTER 4 WONDER ENLIGHTENING It's hard to fall asleep. I keep thinking about all the places we could go. And I worry about all the things that could happen. We might make a journey to the center of the earth. But in the middle, it's like the hot fudge on a sundae.

I don't even like to go into a closet. I'm happier when I can see the sky. Eric says I have closet-ra-phobia. If we go far enough, then we'll come out in China. Then we could eat lunch at a Chinese restaurant.

Or maybe we'll just go to the bottom of the ocean. There are many things down there with lots of teeth and lots of arms. It's also very dark. The deepest that I've ever been in the ocean is up to my ankles.

Maybe we'll go to Mars. They put you to sleep, and when you wake up... you're there. The things on Mars are even weirder than the things at the bottom of the ocean.

They've got bigger teeth, longer arms like springs, and fingers like plungers. Their eyeballs are on stalks and wave around in the air. They all have bad breath and breathe through their ears. You have to put your head in a fishbowl and walk around in slow motion.

Where in the world are we going to go? Or where out of the world? I close my eyes and wonder....