One day Chris won the megabucks. When he got the news that he won, he went home to tell his family. By the way, he has a wife Jackie and four kids: a son named Andy, the oldest daughter Julie, and twins Janet and Jill.
Anyway, when Chris got home he told his family and they went crazy.
They decided they wanted to buy a camper with the money and go camping somewhere. They weren't sure where they where going to go.
So, that night they all sat down and thought and thought and thought. Jackie said, "I know. Let's go to Pluto." Then Chris said, "No! let's go to Mars. Well I guess we can go to Pluto if they have gas stations on the way."
"But mom it is a long way." explained Jill.
"No, it isn't. It is only 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away. Don't worry we'll be there in no time.
So the next day they went to buy their camper. The guy wanted $6,000.00 for the camper and they thought that was a great deal compared to how much money they had. So they bought it and went home
When they got home they packed. They packed 15 sandwiches and 30 drinks. They brought all their money and of course all their clothing and went on their way.
As they traveled they saw lots of things. They played lots of travel games and stopped at many places.
When they were about one quarter of the way there they hit something that was on the road. So they stopped and pulled over. Jill got out and said, "Look! It's an alien from planet X. Oh no we are being invaded." "No we aren't." said Andy. Then Chris took his shovel and move it off the road and left.
"Where do you think we should sleep tonight?" asked Jackie.
"Let's just check into a hotel for tonight." replied Chris.
"Okay." said Jackie
So they check into a hotel named Galaxy. In the hotel they had alien spies that watched them all the time. The beds were water beds that were clear plastic and there were fish in the beds.
Then the next morning they went. They had already eaten all there sandwiches and drank all of their juice.
When they were half way there they stopped at a convenience store. They bought some gum and soda because they were tired of juice and sandwiches.
By now they were just about there. Jill, Julie, Janet, and Andy wanted to play a travel game. So they took out Mr. Mouth. It was a game that you have to get the flies in the frogs mouth and the mouth kept on closing. They played two games of Mr. Mouth because it was a short game.
Finally they saw the sign that said '' THE FIRST CAMPGROUND ON PLUTO. They all screamed with joy after 25 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then they got settled into their campsite but getting there was half the fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Jill R.
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