I couldn't wait to go to Mexico! I returned home from my BSC meeting around 6:15 and after dinner, (I ate by myself. Everyone else had gone out to dinner, I guess they wanted to give me some alone time to pack.) I went up to my room and began looking through my clothes. I wanted to look extra dibble on this trip, and was only packing my coolest stuff. I was excited because my sort-of-boyfriend Ben Hobart would be on the trip. He's eleven and in the 6th grade like me, and he's from Australia! He has the dreamiest accent. Things are getting pretty serious and I'm hoping that during this trip he'll ask me to go steady… and maybe finally give me the kiss I've been waiting for.

It was so nice of my family to send me on this trip. This year I've already been on a cruise to the Bahamas, Disneyworld, and Sea City three times, Europe, California, Hawaii, skiing in Vermont, New York City, and other cool places. Money is a little tight in my house, having eight kids and all but my family always pulls together to send me on fabulous trips! My mom says they'll do anything to get me out of the house. I'm so glad they want me to be cultured.

I was just about done packing when I remembered the extra special thing I had bought for the trip. I dug under my bed looking for it. Aha! There it was, still in the bag from the store. My first bikini. It was simple, white bottoms and a white halter bikini top. I got white because it blended in perfectly with my pasty pale skin and would create the illusion of nudity. Ben wouldn't be able to resist. The only problem was I didn't really have anything to fill the top out with, naturally at least. Thank God for toilet paper, I'd just have to keep the top half of my body out of the water.

"Mallory the news of your trip makes me want to flip, I can't wait for you to leave so I can finally breathe!" My sister Vanessa said dancing into our room. Vanessa is nine and wants to be a poet when she grows up, so she says everything in rhyme.

"I'm excited too, but I'm sure gonna miss all of you guys," I said zipping up my suitcase.

"We'll miss you too, like someone misses the flu," Vanessa said walking towards my bed. I knew she was joking.

"Let me help me with your bag, so we can get rid of you, hag," Vanessa said grabbing my bag and heading out the door. How nice of her.

"Ooo let me help!" My ten year old brother Byron said coming to Vanessa's aid.

"You guys are all so sweet," I said watching them skip merrily down the stairs, my suitcase in hands.

I decided to take these moments of solitude to write in my journal. I always keep a journal on every trip I go on; sometimes I make my friends write in it too.

Dear Journal,

Tomorrow I leave for another exciting trip. This time I will be vacationing in Mexico City, Mexico. I know this trip will be just as dibble as all the others, and I can't wait! Maybe my beloved Ben will want to sit next to me on the plane, I won't let him though, a girl has to play hard-to-get sometimes. Well, more tomorrow.