Dear Dad and Sharon,

By the time you get this letter, I will be in Sunny Florida! I am on the plane right now, and I can't wait until we arrive! Not that the plane trip is bad- it's actually pretty fun! The school is letting us go wherever we want as long as it's Disney World, and we stick to our curfew, so I'll get to do lots of baby-sitting. Watson even says that he might be able to arrange a trip to Kennedy Space Centre! I'm already having a great time, and I haven't even gotten off the airplane. Of course, I'd be having an even better time if you guys were here!

Love,

Mary Anne

It was going to be so much fun.

The BSC had gotten room arrangements a few weeks before. I would be sharing a room with Stacey and Mallory. Now I was sitting on the plane between Kristy and Dawn. Mallory and Jessi were at the seats across the aisle from our right, and Stacey and Claudia were across to our left. Abby was behind us. Watson had arranged for us to all sit together.

Unfortunately, Alan Gray, the most obnoxious boy in the eighth grade was next to Dawn. He was beaming because he was also close to Kristy, and he has a major crush on her, and it drives Kristy crazy.

Karen, Kristy's stepsister whom we all love kept visiting us.

"Mary Anne, do you want to know something? I am going to go on every single ride in Disney World. Even the scary ones. I am going to go on It is a Small World, and Snow White's Adventures and Splash Mountain."

"Be warned, Karen, It's a Small World is really scary." said Alan Gray, who was sitting next to Dawn. "So scary, that big beefy Mickey Mouse people come out at you in the dark and eat out your eyeballs."

Karen's blue eyes looked alarmed behind her glasses.

"Well, that's nice, Karen." I said, ignoring Alan's comment. "But I really think that you should go back to Daddy and Elizabeth now."

"But I do not want to." Karen whined.

"Karen." Kristy warned.

"Okay, okay." Karen hopped away.

"Alan, why did you do that?" Kristy asked sharply, as she leaned forward to look him in the eyes.

Alan crossed his eyes at her.

"Alan Gray, you are so immature!" with a toss of her long blond hair, Dawn turned and put on her headphones.

It's true. Alan is the King of Goons. But I didn't want to be rude, so I decided to just talk to my friends.

"Look, Kristy, we have these little screens on the seats in front of us!" I observed.

"Oh, my lord! You're right!" Claudia shouted across the aisle.

"What movie will they show?" Mallory wondered aloud.

"I don't know." said Claudia. "Let's ask."

Well, guess what. The movie turned out to be To Kill a Mockingbird- one of my favorite movies ever!

"Who's Tokilla Mockingbird?" Claudia asked.

Our food came just as the movie was about to start. The choices were steak, pasta and chicken soup. It came with salad, cornbread, cheesecake and chocolate bars. We all chose steak except for Dawn.

"Ew, ew, ew." she said. "You are eating the carcass of a massacred cow. Something that used to be alive."

"But chicken used to-" I began.

"We know, we know." Claudia said. "How can you resist this stuff, Dawn?" she took a bite of her Snickers Bar that came with the meal. A piece of chocolate got stuck to her front tooth. It looked as if it were missing.

"Doth anyone wanth some fock-lith?" she asked, pretending to be toothless.

We howled (except for Dawn). That was just such a BSC moment.

"Artificial processed poison and ground-up cow." said Dawn. "Gag me."

"Look, I'm little Orphan Annie." Alan leaned across to show Kristy his eyes, which he had stuck yellow M&Ms outside.

"Ugh!" exclaimed Kristy, who has a weak stomach.

"Yuck! Grow up, Alan." snapped Dawn. She began eating her chicken soup.

I watched the movie for another hour. Then I fell asleep. When I woke up again, Kristy was looming over me.

"Wake up, Mary Anne! We're in Florida!"

I sat up quickly.

"Oh, my lord! Florida!"