1 Bye-Bye, Hawai’i!

Chapter 1 BYE-BYE, HAWAII! Andrew Dubble looked up through the tall palm trees. "This reminds me of when we were lost in the dog-hair forest on Harley's nose!" he said. "Eeeuw!" said his cousin Judy. She gave a little shiver. "I don't ever want to think about that! Do you have to be so irritating on our last morning in Hawai'i?" Judy tossed her frizzy hair and marched toward the ocean. She kicked up little fountains of sand with every step. Andrew followed her. meep… "Drewd and Oody gotta pack now!" came a squeaky voice from Andrew's shirt pocket.

It was Thudd, a little silver robot and Andrew's best friend. "Plane leave in three hours!" "I guess you're right," sighed Judy. "But I just hate to leave." Their trip to Hawai'i had been so much fun. They'd swum with dolphins, eaten seaweed salad, and taken an amazing helicopter ride over a volcano! Andrew and Judy had been surprised when Judy's parents took them to Hawai'i after the mess they'd gotten into three weeks ago. That was when Andrew had accidentally shrunk himself, Judy, and Thudd to microscopic size with the Atom Sucker. They'd been snuffled into a dog's nose, flushed down a toilet, carried off by a cockroach, and dragged into an anthill! Their parents had been a little upset. But mostly, they were proud of the kids for solving the big problem of being very little. "Before we finish packing," said Andrew, "there's something I've got to show you." "What?" asked Judy.

"It's a surprise," said Andrew. Judy looked at Andrew. Her eyes narrowed. "What kind of surprise?" she asked suspiciously. "The last time you surprised me, I ended up swimming in dog snot." Andrew laughed. "It's a surprise for Uncle Al. He has this new invention. But he's been so busy taking us around Hawai'i, he hasn't had time to finish it. So I've been getting up early every morning to work on it. After breakfast, I'm going to show Uncle Al what I did." "Cheese Louise!" said Judy. "You've been messing around with one of Uncle Al's inventions? He'll have a cow!" Andrew shook his head. "Uh-uh," he said. "Come on. We'll be back in ten minutes." Judy rolled her eyes. "I'd better check this out before Uncle Al does," she said. Andrew led the way down the beach. Huge blue waves were crashing onto the white sand. "Wowzers!" said Andrew. "Look how high the waves are!"

meep… "High tide!" said Thudd. "Moon pull big lump of water to this side of earth! See?" Thudd pointed to his face screen. They came to a quiet lagoon surrounded by palm trees. A few small boats were anchored there. Andrew walked up to a garage at the edge of the water. There was a small box in the middle of the door. Andrew talked into the box. "Good golly, Miss Molly," he said. Chugga chugga chugga came a noise from inside the garage. The garage door rolled up slowly.

Andrew stepped inside and clicked on the light. "Ta-da!"