RING! RING! RING!

"Hello?" a female voice answered. "Hi, this is Seymoe, could I talk to Uncle Alvin, please?"

"Hold on just one minute." A few moments later, Alvin answered. "Hello?"

"Hi, Uncle Alvin! Dad told me about that adventure you went on. It sounds awesome! How did you do it?" Seymore said in a rush.

"So, Simon finally told you that story." Alvin chuckled. "Well, Dave was in Europe, and I called him at three o'clock in the morning, his time, and got him to say exactly the words I wanted him to. Then, had Theodore call and play the tape from the recording over the phone for Ms. Miller, and we were off!" He carefully avoided mention of Klaus and Claudia. "Although, I wouldn't do that today for Simon. He has caller ID, so you'd be busted the minute you called-"

"I know." Seymore sighed inaudibly.

"If you were to do something like that today, I'd just..." And he proceeded to give Seymore an entire detailed plan, from before lifting off to after coming back home. He ended with, "I came up with a version of that a few days after Dave caught us, and I kept it current, at first because I planned to try again, but then just for fun. I know you'd never do anything like that."

"Well, it was good talking to ya. Bye bye!" Seymore said.

Alvin had to stop a laugh from thinking how familiar that sounded. "Bye!"

"Seymore?" Simon yelled. "Supper!" No answer, of course.

"Seymore!" Still no answer. This was getting old. Fast.

"SEEEEEEEEYYYYMMMMOOOORRRRREEEEEE!"

"Coming!" Seymore called down.

He tromped downstairs. "Have you washed your hands?"

"No..." Seymore went back to wash them.

After Seymore came back, he asked his dad, "Could I go to this class trip?" He held up an official-looking field trip permission slip to go to the Louvre in Paris.

"That's a rather unusual field trip destination..." Simon muttered. "All the same, it if it's an educational trip-"

"It will be," Seymore hurriedly put in.

"-Then I agree," Simon finished. He signed it. "When should I drop you off at the high school?" Simon asked. "It doesn't say." He looked closer.

"I'm sure the teacher just forgot to put the time on there," Seymore rushed. "She said to be there between six and seven."

"Which day?" Simon asked. "It doesn't say that either."

"Saturday, the 21st." Seymore snatched the paper out of Simon's hands. "Thanks!" he said as he ran to his room. "Seymore?" Simon called. "Get back here for supper!"

Seymore slowly retreated out of his room. The paper was already gone.

Simon and Jeanette looked at each other. He seemed really eager to go on that field trip!

The adventure begins. I have a poll going on names, not really huge, just unsure which to use. If you have your own suggestion, you can put it in our review, but it HAS to be a name that starts with he letters CL (or MAYBE KL. That sound, anyway.) The names in the poll are Clarence Jr. or Clark.