One gloomy afternoon, my dad was off of work. He said, “Why don’t we all go to the Butterfly Palace?†My little sister was so excited! “There be princesses there?†Charlene shouted out joyfully.
“No honey, it is a Butterfly Palaceâ€, Mom said with a little giggle. “It’s the biggest butterfly greenhouse in the US and we just got four free tickets in the mail!â€
“Oh, can we go now?†my little sister said, clapping her hands.
“Yes, go get your shoes on†my mom said. With that, Charlene took off to find her shoes. When we got outside to the car, Charlene started to cry. “What’s the matter?†Momma asked her.
“My car seat isn’t here!â€
“Oh, yes, Daddy took the car to be fixed yesterday. He took out your car seat.â€
“I’ll go find it Momâ€, I said. I got out of the car and my dad opened the garage door. I looked by the shovels. It wasn’t there. I looked on Dad’s work bench, there were tools all over it! Then I went over to the toys. It was leaning up against the side door.
We buckled her car seat in and started off. We were just about to turn out of the drive way when Charlene said “I have to go to the bathroomâ€. We backed back into the driveway. Mom said “go fast!â€
Then we headed off again from CR 13 to Peppermint Lane. We turned right on to Wisconsin Ave. Then, just as we were about to turn the corner onto Cherry Drive, we got pulled over by a cop! He wrote my dad a speeding ticket. My dad did not realize he was going over the speed limit because he was too busy answering all the hundred questions my sister was asking him.
Once the cop left, we headed straight towards Butterfly Drive. Charlene kept asking “are we almost there? How much longer?†Dad told her just a couple more minutes.
Mom reached down to get her purse to get the tickets. She looked inside her purse, she could not find them. She took everything out and found them in a side pocket.
My Dad parked the car and we all got out. When we got to the entrance there was a sign that said, “Closed for Unexpected Maintenance. Open in the Fall.â€