Happy Holidays! I won't see you until January! Thanks a bunch of Roses! :)

 ~Hannah

The Argonauts By Hannah Walker

The Argonauts By Hannah 

Once upon a time, there was a highly macho, manly hero/sailor named Jase, but, he wasn’t alone, he had ten immensely enormous crewman, The Argonauts.  They sailed the seven seas and more, altogether, they were the most loyal groupies any macho man could ask for. Did whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. These crewmen usually had free will over what direction they went. And Jase usually was below deck, sleeping or eating, never paying attention to what was above deck. But today was different, and the Argonauts could sense it. It all started when Bob was nervously swiping the poop deck-and doing an awful job- when Captain Jase peered out of the scuttle. Bob was the rookie on the ship, and was known to be rather jumpy, and to top it all off, had never seen the captain, only heard dreadful of him. And Jase was a sight today, he had spent the last two months under, so he was a sickly gray color. He yelped in surprise, and that turned the head of Ferb. Ferb was the head sailor, inspecting Bob’s work, and jumped back in surprise when Bob yelped. He slipped on Bob’s abandoned sponge, and went sailing in the direction of Jase. He landed on the captain, who was now enraged. “Everybody!!!” he roared, “Meeting in captain’s quarters now!!!”  Confused, they all followed him down.

“We are going to see Phineas!!” he finally declared. Ferb, who had just politely closed the door behind him, fell through it. “What!?” he screeched. “Yes, this is non-negotiable, we are sailing ASAP.” Jase lazily answered. “But…” He continued, “No!” Jase, suddenly agitated, hollered. “All of you leave.” So away they went, more perplexed than ever before. As you can imagine, they didn’t just arrive there right then, it took them about, six weeks before they got there. They sailed peacefully, no one fought, died, or complained. All went well on their voyage, but all was not well across the great Aegean sea, where elderly king Phineas dwelled. For three years before, the mighty king of gods Zeus, had blinded Phineas, and cursed him; with three Harpies.-harpies were a horrific mixture of ugly old women and falcons- to steal his food whenever he tried to eat. Whenever the helpless king tried to eat, they would swoop down and violently attack his food, He hadn’t eaten in up to three weeks, and he was starving. 

So, when Jase, and the Argonauts arrived, they arrived prepared. They set traps. To everyone’s surprise, two of the Argonauts could fly, Ferb, and Bob. They were oddly the sons of the North Wind. They laid a feast for the starving king, and as planned for, the Harpies tried to swoop down and madly wolf down the dinner. But, the brother chased them away, far far away. So they could never attack the poor old man, every again. Extremely grateful, the king rewarded the Argonauts with his knowledge of the sea, and many ways to escape danger in even the most seemingly impossible situations. 

You Never Know Who You Hire.

Training Dolphins, By Dolphin Girl

Ahhh!!!
I feel soooo bad!!!
 I just intended on a short Thanksgiving break and BOOM it's
   CHRISTMAS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, this week, we have a cameo author, whose real name will remain anonymous for security reasons.
So, let's call her dolphin girl for now. Yeah, let's do that.
  Thanks again!

Training Dolphins, By Dolphin Girl

I gleefully open the door, mesmerized by everything. We walked to the front desk, where a lady in a teal colored blouse and blue jeans shorts greeted us. Dad talked to her about buying tickets for my two sisters and me. Soon the lady from the front desk guided us to a wide pool of water,where we saw amazing creatures leaping out. I wish my mom were here to see this, if she was I know she would flip.

There was a ladder that stooped down into the bright blue water. From what I could see there were about 19 more pools just like it, each filled with two of these intriguing mammals. The lady motioned for us to move closer to the pool, until we were at the edge of it. Just then they jump e dout of the water, Sea sprayed through my hair. Then the lady told me to climb down the ladder and start treading water. Feeling uneasy I glanced at my dad, who gave me a look that said ‘’go ahead, it's okay’’. With that I slowly crawled down into the water.It was cold. I was nervous. I felt a cool breeze.

 I've been treading water for three minutes and was starting to tire. Finally, the lady took a small shiny silver whistle from her neck, and blew one short quick blow. I felt movement under the water. All of a sudden a dolphin popped up out of the water beside me right under my left arm, and another under my right. Now they were underneath both of my arms, so I could just relax. Until the instructor whistled another command, which I guess I meant swim forward since that’s what happened. The dolphins lurched forward with me clinging on to their dorsal fins. I started to loosen my grip a little. We swam in circles, around and around and around. It was fun. The wind blew through my blonde hair and the sea sprayed my face. I have never felt like this way before. 

Then we started to slow down. Stopping right in the center. The lady told me to face the Dolphins and to softly kiss them. I did and it felt awesome. We slowly swam to the ladder, and the lady helped me climb up the ladder on solid ground. Before we walked away I whispered farewell to the Dolphins. I was sad, but my dad assured me that we would be back again soon. And with that we departed in our car, with mixedemotions about the dolphins, knowing right then that I wanted to arrive back as a trainer not a customer.