Here it is!

Well - I won't be updating so much for a week since my exams are on...so enjoy what you can!

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30th June 2005

Throne Room

Royal Atlantean Palace

Dear Diary ---

I've seen a lot of cool stuff, and a lot of weird stuff. Dad's friends definitely come under the "weird" category.

I was woken up early in the morning by Dad pushing me out of bed, muttering incoherently about something which sounded like, "Can't wake…will be here…first impressions…"

Then, when I went down to breakfast, Maatem said, "Breakfast today only after they come…."

THEY!

Oh yeah. Dad's friends.

So we went down to the docks, where a fancy ship was pulling into the pier. A ladder was bought out, and Dad's friends were here. I will try my best to explain their characters, and anyone who reads this (there better not be anyone) will be shocked beyond belief.

Martha Packard: She's old, frail physically and not mentally, and her smoking is gonna increase her death rate. She has Compulsive Phone-Talk Disorder (as I call it) and she talks to some other old bat called Margie all the time. She sleeps in the nude AND SLEEPWALKS.

Gaton Moliere: French geologist. A huge pervert (he FLIRTED with me in front of my parents!) and is desperate for a date. He takes baths only once a year and was raised by naked mole-rats. His pyjamas are in the colours of the French flag, and has a mole as a pet.

His NICKNAME is Mole.

Joshua Sweet: Weird kind of doctor. Seems to think I have some sort of deficiency because I'm so thin. Also has a weird kind of humour. Other than that, he seems OK.

Audrey Ramierez: Top mechanic…has a dry (I mean DRY) sense of humour. Can't seem to stand Mole (then again, neither can I). She's fun to hang around with.

Cookie: The cook on the original Ulysses expedition. No one seems to know his real name. His food stinks BIG-TIME! It smells worse than the toilets in my school, and trust me, you don't EVER wanna go in there!

Vincenzo Santorini: Demolitions expert. He's got dynamite, cherry bombs and other kinds of explosive stuff ALL around him. Funny accent. Kinda weird….REALLY weird.

Preston Whitmore: Old. REALLY old. He was great-grandpa's best buddy. He financed the expedition to Atlantis. He's….funny. A yoga freak. Collects a lot of weird stuff, like Excalibur and the Holy Grail….that IS weird……

See. SEE! They are SO SO SO weird! OMG! How DOES Dad like them!

Got to go – I smell dinner…..writing makes me hungry…..I'll give you the 411 on it later!

Crystal Thatch

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