Beach Ride by Bonnie Bryant

Author:Bonnie Bryant [Bryant, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82507-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2013-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

“THERE’S A STRANGE elbow sticking into me,” Sheila announced.

“Not all that strange,” said Carole. “It’s mine.” Carole tried to shift her position in the backseat of Uncle Willie’s car so she wasn’t poking Sheila, but then she found she was crushing Aunt Joanna, who then squished Colonel Hanson. All four of them were in the back because Uncle Willie and Midge Ford were in the front bucket seats.

The group was headed for Disney World, and Carole was very excited about it. She and Sheila had been up late the night before, reading a guidebook and trying to decide what they were going to do first. Since Sheila lived nearby, she’d been to the theme parks many times, but it was all still very exciting to her, and she was looking forward to showing it to her younger cousin.

Carole flipped open the guidebook and looked once again.

“What about this Tea Party thing?” she asked.

“That’s for little kids,” Sheila said.

“But it looks like fun,” said Carole.

“It is,” Sheila conceded. “We have to do it. We’ll just pretend we’re little kids.”

That seemed to Carole like a good attitude for a whole day at the Magic Kingdom.

“My first stop is the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad,” Colonel Hanson declared. “Are you game for that, Midge?”

“In your dreams! That’s a roller coaster!”

“I know,” said Carole’s father. “And I just love roller coasters.”

“Wait until you try Space Mountain,” said Aunt Joanna. “That might change your mind. It’s a roller coaster completely in the dark.”

“It’s supposed to be really scary, Uncle Mitch,” Sheila said. “I remember one time I went on that when my class had a day outing at the park. Colin McKenzie—”

“Ahem,” Uncle Willie interrupted.

“Enough,” said Aunt Joanna.

Naturally, that made Carole very curious. “What?” she whispered to Sheila.

“Threw up!” Sheila whispered back, but she whispered it loud enough so that everybody could hear. That made Colonel Hanson laugh, and when Colonel Hanson laughed, everybody around him laughed, too. In fact, all six people in the car were laughing by the time they reached the parking lot.

Once they got inside the park and were oriented, they agreed to break up into what Carole’s father called “interest groups.” The “interest group” that was headed for the terrifying rides, Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain, included Carole and her father. Aunt Joanna and Uncle Willie wanted to go on the Skyway—a funicular that reached from Tomorrowland to Fantasyland. Sheila decided she couldn’t wait to see the Mad Tea Party, and Midge felt the same way. Their interest group was headed there.

Then Colonel Hanson announced that they should all meet at one of the restaurants at noon—it took only fifteen minutes to argue about which one—to eat lunch and rearrange their interest groups. Carole liked the fact that her father, who was in the military, was a natural’born leader and made good decisions. This was definitely going to be fun.

Colonel Hanson offered his arm to his daughter, and the two of them headed for Frontierland and their first roller coaster of the day.

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