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Drizella Goes to the Moon!

You didn't think it was possible for a 4 year old to get into the Space Program?  Think again!  When it's Drizella, anything is possible...

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Drizella.  She was a very naughty little girl….

One night, after her mommy had given her a bath, read her a story, and put her into bed, Drizella had a very naughty idea.  She lay very quietly in her bed for a few minutes, so her mommy would think that she had gone to sleep, and then she sneaked out of her covers and put on her clothes.  She carefully opened the window in her bedroom, trying to be as quiet as she could so that no one would hear her, and looked down.  It was a very long way down. 

Then Drizella had another idea.  She took her blanket off her bed, tied one corner of it to her tea party table, and threw the other end out the window.  Then Drizella grabbed onto the blanket with both hands and slowly lifted her legs out the window.  Holding on with both her hands and her feet, Drizella slowly, carefully, cautiously climbed down the blanket rope.  When she got to the end of her blanket she looked down to the ground.  It still looked really far, but she had no other ideas, so Drizella took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and let go of the blanket.  

She fell down, down, down.  It seemed like a hundred thousand miles down.  And then… bump!  Drizella landed with a bump!  First she opened her eyes.  Then she wiggled her toes, her feet, her legs.  Then she stretched out her fingers, circled her wrists, and flapped her arms.  Next she tipped her head side to side and front to back.  Finally she wiggled her bottom and – OUCH!!!  Drizella had a big, blue bruise on her bottom from that big bump!  Very slowly Drizella got up off the ground and started sneaking away from her house.  She had to find somewhere to hide before her mommy noticed her sitting on the grass.

Drizella started walking.  She walked and she walked and she walked.  She walked all night.  Finally, when the sun started coming up, Drizella found a bush to hide under and she fell sound asleep.  She was very tired from all her walking.

But soon a rumbling noise came from under that bush.  And another rumble, and another.  The rumbling noises woke Drizella up.  She lay very still, thinking that it might be a lion, a tiger, or even a bear (since it was such a loud rumbling noise).  For a while Drizella was very scared and thought about going home, until she realized that the rumbling noise was not coming from under the bush but from inside her tummy!  Drizella was hungry!

Drizella climbed out from under her bush and looked around.  And do you know what she saw?  A McDonald’s restaurant!  Her favorite.  And it had a playground!  Drizella ran over to the restaurant as fast as her little legs would carry her.  She quietly opened the door and snuck in so no one would ask her where her mommy was.  Once inside, she headed for the door to the playground and dashed outside.  It was the biggest playground she had ever seen – there were four slides, three ladders, fifteen tunnels, a helicopter, an airplane, a ball bath with a diving board, and two elevators! 

Drizella forgot all about being hungry and started playing all over the playground.  She played for a long time until it happened again … the rumbling noise was now so loud that it was scaring the other children!  The first time it rumbled everybody stopped playing and looked around.  The second time it rumbled the children all ran to their mommies.  By the third time Drizella was so hungry that it didn’t rumble, it roared!  Then all the mommies, daddies, children, and babies screamed and ran away as fast as they could.  Everyone was sure that there was a monster in the playground. 

When everyone had gone, Drizella came out of the tunnel she had been playing in.  Everyone had been in such a hurry to get away from the imaginary monster that they had forgotten all their food.  And Drizella was so hungry… do you know what she did?  She ate those people’s food!  All the hamburgers, all the chicken nuggets, all the french fries, all the sprites and cokes and milkshakes – she ate every last bite!

Now Drizella realized that her feet were so very tired from walking all night and from playing so long in the playground.  But she had to keep going. She had a very long way to go.  So Drizella left the McDonald’s, ready to walk on her poor, sore feet, when she spied a big, purple dump truck.  Drizella had another very naughty idea!  She climbed onto the tire and up and over the side of the dump truck.  It was full of sandbox sand.  “Sand isn’t too bad,” Drizella thought, “It is kind of soft and not as scratchy as a cactus.”  So Drizella jumped into the sand and waited.

Just a minute later the driver came out of McDonald’s and got into his truck and drove away, with Drizella in the back!  They went on one highway, then another, and another.  Finally Drizella started seeing palm trees and beaches.  This must be the right place.  And just in time, because Drizella had drunk so many sprites and cokes and milkshakes that she had to go to the bathroom very badly.  When the truck stopped at a gas station to get gas, Drizella jumped out.  She ran straight to the bathroom on the other side of the gas station.  Her bladder was so full that it took ten minutes to empty it!  Finally she was done and she went back outside.  The truck had already left, but that was okay.  Drizella was almost where she wanted to be.  She turned her head up to the sky and looked around.  Finally she saw what she was looking for and she started running as fast as she could.

Ever since she had been two and a half, Drizella had always wanted to do one thing:  fly to the moon. But Drizella was not patient enough to wait until she was all grown up and a real astronaut.  That is why that night when Drizella snuck out of her bed and ran away, she went all the way to Florida!  That is where all the rockets that go to the moon are kept.

(... to be continued!!!)