Author's Note: Found this floating in my hard drive after taking it down from the site four years ago. Enjoy.

Disneyland

Disney World!

Oh my lord. How much more dibbly fresh can you get? Not much, that's a known fact. I couldn't help blurting out,

"This is so dibble!

"Excuse me! Look, I know you're excited, Mallory, but please pay attention!" said Kristy Thomas.

Oops. I shut up right away.

Where was I? School? Police headquarters? A lecture? Nope! I was at a meeting of the Baby-Sitters Club!

What's the Baby-Sitters Club? Well, it's a club. Actually, it's more of a business. A baby-sitting business of thirteen and eleven-year-old baby-sitters, who happen to be very close friends. Right now we were at a meeting of it in the room of Claudia Kishi, our vice-president. But in only a day, we would be in Disney World!

"Oh, come on, Kristy." said Claudia. "I bet you're excited too. Here, have a Mars Bar. I bet that'll cheer you up." She pulled a bag of Mars Bars from underneath her pillow case and tosses them to Kristy.

Why were we going to Disney World? Well, it had all started when I, Mallory Pike, and my friends found out that Stoneybrook Middle School, which all of the Baby-Sitters Club go to, was organizing a summer trip to… Disney World, Florida! But my parents didn't want me to go there by myself, so Dad called up Watson Brewer, Kristy's stepfather. Watson is a real live millionaire, who had been thinking of going to CA for his family's summer vacation. He arranged for our whole family, plus his to go to Disney World! His family is huge, like mine. There's Kristy and her brothers, Sam (fifteen), Charlie (seventeen) and David Michael (seven). Then there's his own kids, Karen and Andrew, who are seven and four. And there's finally Emily Michelle, Watson and Mrs. Thomas's adorable adopted two-year-old Vietnamese daughter.

Watson would chip in for my family's costs, so my family would come to Disney World at the same time at the school, and so would his. My family can hardly ever go on family trips, because there's so many of us. I have seven sibling (yes, seven!). There's Margo and Claire, who are seven and five, Nicky (eight), Vanessa (nine) and the triplets, Adam, Byron and Jordan. And there's me and my parents which takes us up to ten. I've been to Disney World once before, but besides that the only places we've been to as a family is Sea City, plus the Caribbean Islands.

So, many SMS students including the whole BSC, chaperones, teachers, my family and Kristy's family were all going!

The BSC couldn't wait. We were all dibbly excited (oh, I should say that dibble is a word that we made up. It's short for incredible. Chilly, fresh and distant all mean the same thing. Stale is the opposite of dibble!), including Kristy. Kristy is the president, and she likes to keep things organized. She is the most organized person I know. The reason she was elected president was because a. she's super-organized and efficient

b. the club was her idea. Kristy is famous for her great ideas. We call her the Idea Machine. She's also bossy, outgoing, and loud. Kristy's personality is big. You would never guess she's like that by just looking at her, though. Kristy's the shortest person in her class, and has long brown hair she puts in a ponytail and brown eyes. She's a casual dresser, and she wears a 'uniform' of jeans, a turtleneck, a sweater and a baseball cap. Kristy is also kind of immature, because she doesn't care much about clothes, boys or makeup. Instead, she likes sports, like softball.

"I can't wait to go on 'It's a Small World' with Logan." sighed Mary Anne. "I bet it's just like the Tunnel of Luv in Sea City."

That's Mary Anne- a hopeless romantic. Logan Bruno is her super-cute boyfriend, who comes from the South (he's an associate member of the BSC!). Mary Anne was the first BSC member to have a boyfriend, which some people may find strange. Why? Because Mary Anne is painfully shy and quiet and sensitive. She's also kind, sweet, patient, understanding, and as I said before, a romantic. I think that's why she has a boyfriend. Mary Anne is the perfect person to talk to if you have a problem. She's the BSC's secretary, because she has very neat handwriting (her job is to write up a schedule of our sitting jobs). Guess who Mary Anne's best friend is? Kristy! Yes, I know it's strange. They're both short with brown hair and brown eyes (although Mary Anne recently got an extremely cool, short haircut), but that's where the similarities end. Also, Mary Anne is a lot more into clothes than Kristy.

Mary Anne has a sort of casual preppy style now, but her widowed father used to make her wear all these little-girl clothes and he had a million rules for her. Then, he met up with his old high school sweetheart, Sharon Schafer. Sharon had just arrived from California after a divorce. She had a daughter called Dawn Schafer who was Mary Anne's age then, and a now ten-year-old son called Jeff. Dawn and Mary Anne became best friends, and with a little Cupid Work, Mr. Spier and Mrs. Schafer walked down the aisle together! Mary Anne's dad has loosened up a lot since then.

Dawn is now Mary Anne's best friend. She is such a California Girl! She's fun to be with and she loves health food, ghost stories and surfing and she has two holes in each ear! She has a breezy style that we call California Casual. Dawn is so fresh. She's also gorgeous, with LONG blond hair the color of cornsilk and sparkling, sea-blue eyes and an incredible CA tan, just like a California Girl. Dawn is generally easygoing and mellow, but she is very, very passionate about issues such as animal rights and the environment. She does not eat red meat, so she's a vegetarian. She's very individualistic and independent, which means she does what she pleases, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Dawn moved back to California recently (we were all devastated) but she was back for the summer. It had been a long, long battle, but she'd finally convinced her mother to let her go Disney World with the rest of us.

"I don't know." Dawn was saying, as she popped a carrot into her mouth. "I want to go on the Haunted Mansion. Those rides get so tired after you've been on them as much as I have. I mean, we've all been to Disney World before, except Jessi and Abby. And, I mean, I've been to Disneyland at least a million times."

"I know what you mean." Stacey McGill replied. "New York tires out after a while, too."

Well, maybe for her, but certainly not me. Stacey used to live in New York City (lucky her), so she is uber-sophisticated. She's extremely beautiful has long blond hair that her mother lets her perm, and big blue eyes with dark lashes. She loves to shop in boutiques in New York and wears the most chilly outfits, too (probably because of her Big Apple roots). Like today she was wearing a fuzzy blue sweater that she had pulled down her shoulders and a short, short black skirt. She had on black stockings and shiny black flats. Now that is just dibble. But Stacey does have her problems, of course. She has diabetes, which is a disease in which her pancreas doesn't work properly, so her body can't handle sugar (NO SWEETS) so she has to give herself (Ugh! Ew!) insulin injections. Also, her parents are divorced. She lives with her mother here in Stoneybrook. Her dad lives in the Big Apple and boy does Stacey love to visit him. During her visits to NYC Stacey goes to all the boutiques and Broadway plays and operas and museums (sigh). Despite her problems, she handles well. Stacey is what my aunt would call a 'trooper'.

"New York does not tire out!" insisted Claudia, who loves to come with Stacey on her New York trips. "I'm definitely going to Space Mountain. And It's a Small World. Maybe I'll even find a gorgeous guy to come with me."

Claudia and Stacey are both a little boy-crazy, although neither of them currently has a steady boyfriend. Maybe that's why they're such good friends. Both of them love boys and fashion and makeup. Claudia loves clothes just as much as Stacey, only she's stylish in a different way. Unlike Stacey's style, which could be called New York Sophisticated, Claudia's style is more wild, creative, out-of-the-ordinary. She loves to make her own outfits. She is an amazing dresser. She wears the most outrageous outfits and still manages to make them look cool. She loves sparkly nail polish (even on her toes), hats, cowboy boots, bright colors, big earrings, the layered look, push-down socks and leggings. Once she even came to school with glitter in her hair.

Today Claudia was wearing a tight blue blouse with a print of pineapples on it. She had on a short pink skirt with a print of ice-cream cones on it and beige pinstripe leggings. She had on pink push-down socks and high-top sneakers with glitter on them. Her earrings were ice-cream cones that I knew she'd made herself. And, she has two holes in one of her earrings, so in the extra hole, she was wearing a plastic spoon! (I knew she'd made that herself. She was wearing a red top hat with white polka dots on it. Her hair was pulled to one side in a ponytail. How dibble is that? Claud is almost as sophisticated as Stacey. As you can see, Claudia loves ice cream- and in fact, all junk food. She has to hide it in her room (so she can give it to us during meetings) since her parents don't approve of junk food. Claudia is constantly stuffing herself with Ho-Hos, Snickers, Mars Bars, and those things. Her room is like a maze of candy. Wait, hold on! I know you're imagining Claudia. You're imaging her all fat and pimply. Well, wrong. Claud is drop-dead-gorgeous, with almond-shaped eyes, long, shiny jet-black hair and a creamy complexion (she's Japanese-American.).Good thing her parents haven't found a sign off all the stuff she hides in her room. They don't approve of her Nancy Drew books either, so she has to hide them too. Claudia's parent's would rather that she read classics and got straight As in school, like her big sister Janine, who happens to be a genius. Unfortunately, Claud is a terrible student (and speller), even though she's smart. Instead, Claudia is really, really talented at art.

"I hobe I cad go od Space Boudtaid. If by allergies ared't too bad." said Abby Stevenson. Yep, that's Abby. She's the BSC's comedian jock. She loves sports, and doesn't let her allergies and asthma get her down. Abby is allergic to nearly everything on the planet. Her motto is 'Life Makes Me Sneeze'. But Abby manages well. Her father died four years ago in a car crash when Abby still lived in Long Island, but she tries to hide that sadness. She's hilarious, bouncy, outgoing and outspoken. Kind of like Kristy, who she sometimes clashes with because their personalities are both very dominant. And speaking of dominant, Abby has an identical twin! Her name is Anna, and she's quiet and sensitive, Abby's opposite. Both girls have long, curly dark hair pointy faces and dark eyes. Abby is also Jewish.

"I'm going to go on the Alice in Wonderland ride." I decided.

"Me too." Mary Anne said dreamily.

"Oh, Alice in Wonderland is for babies." scoffed Kristy. "But I have the best idea."

"What?" Jessica Ramsey and I asked in unison. Then we both shouted "Jinxed!" and burst out laughing.

Jessi and I are best friends. We're both eleven years old and in sixth grade, while everybody else in the BSC is thirteen and in eighth grade. We're both also the oldest in our families. We have lots of things in common, and lots of differences.

I'm average-size with pale skin, curly reddish-brown hair, freckles, glasses and braces. I hate my glasses, braces, and curls, but my mother won't let me straighten out my hair or get clearer braces and I have to wait until I'm fifteen until my parents even consider me getting lenses. I'm the oldest in my family. I like to read and write and I hope to become an author and illustrator of children's books when I grow up. Both Jessi and I love horse books, like the Saddle Club, and anything by Marguerite Henry.

Jessi has coco-colored skin and eyes like coal. She pulls back her black hair just like a dancer. In fact, Jessi is a dancer. She takes ballet class in Stamford and she's extremely talented at it. She has a normal-sized family, with just her, her parents, her little sister Becca (eight) her baby brother Squirt and her Aunt Cecilia. Another thing about Jessi: she's black.

"Ha-ha." said Kristy. "No, the thing is, we're going to Disney World. Now, do you ever hear of adults going to Disney World alone? No. So, it's the perfect place to advertise!"

"Kristy, this is our vacation." said Stacey.

"So? I have a great idea. Let's write up a book! We can all keep notes about our experiences, and we can even ask some other SMS kids too."

"Kristy, that's the most dibble idea!" said Dawn.

"And of course, we can help set up events and we can even start a baby-sitting service in the hotel, and-"

"Kristy!" we all exclaimed. Then we burst out laughing.

Look out, Disney Land, here comes the BSC!