Milk Dud, the Book, by HD

The Adventures of Milk Dud

By HD, written over several weeks of journaling

Age 6 May 2008

Today is the big day. MD is having a stake out with me and ELS. We will roast marshmallows, tell scary stories and pillow fight and we will dress up. We will have hotdogs and beans. MD needs to pack up. She will bring her favorite pajamas with hearts on them. Milk Dud time to get in the car. We are going to Hadley’s house. MD brought her bags to the front door. Me and ELS had the tent in our hands. Come on MD, help set up the tent.

MD went in the backyard and looked around. Let’s go set up the tent, she said. Yeah! ELS will by the marshmallows when me and MD set up the tent and the grill. The tent was easy and so was the grill. Then we put out our sleeping bags and pillows. Then ELS came back and we put up our hair. We set up the grill and cooked pancakes for tomorrow. Next we played ball and told secrets in the dark.

We told scary stories again, then tricked the neighbors and caught fireflies. Next we read books and climbed trees and read more books. We also played on ELS’s laptop and looked in the encyclopedia for birds. We did the blindfold. MD bumped into a tree. Me and ELS’s legs hit a bush! Then MD refused to go out! When MD was reading we picked strawberries for breakfast. MD finally came out to buy milk. I bought orange juice. I wanted to do a pillow fight. MD said YES! So, we had a fight! The neighbors woke up and told us to quiet down. We tried to quiet down but we could not! We took some marshmallows outside but the ground was on fire. Me and ELS got buckets of water while MD called 911. The firefighters saved us!

Then we went in the tent and saw a snake eating popcorn. We shoooed it out! MD threw a baseball on it. Me and ELS chased it into a hole. We went in the tent and said, “WE DON’T need TROUBLE!” When we woke up MD wanted to go climbing mountains at Ruby Falls to the top of the mountains. My mom said OK! So we started to go and started walking for some minutes. My mom found a flying broom and it turned into a plane. Then me and ELS picked up Julia and Madison to come with us. I was scared that we might crash because there was a big building in front of us. I told my mom I was scared. She gave me a mat to lie on. I felt better. We stopped at a hotel to rest and have lunch.

When we got close to the Ruby Falls we saw a storm was in a few minutes. A whale came to save us. She was MD’s friend. We slid on her back to go under water. We found a shell to sleep in. We saw a crab too. The crab was very nice. Then we dug in the sand to make a house. We put the warm shell in first and slept some. When we woke up we saw the storm had made the shell go closer to Ruby Falls. The waterfall was about to fall on us! Bam!!!!! It hit us! We swam under it on the whale. Then we all took a bath in the ocean. Whale said she would live beside the waterfall. We said we will visit her. We went to sleep. Then we put a letter in the boa and gave it to whale. When she saw us and asked us if we wanted a ride we said, YES!. We saw a crab again. Then we said we had to go! “Good bye!” We had dinner and went to sleep.

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