They went through a couple of small towns sharing grapes and then it was time to hit the freeway or highway. It seemed to be the same road but different grownups called it different things. Now they would be driving much faster, and there was not a lot to see really; mostly just desert.
“Can I open my workbooks now?”
“Yes of course you can.”
Violet was excited she opened the backpack up and took out the workbooks and started to look through them. She decided it would be easiest to start with the stickers, after all she would not have to worry about staying in the lines or writing neat that way. All of the stickers were at the back of the book, and had lines and numbers to show which ones went to what page. She thought it would be easiest to tear all of the sticker pages out of the back and lay them beside her and just start at the front of the book.
Violet was so busy doing the stickers and the pages, she did not even realize that her mother had pulled off at an exit until they were coming to a stop at a truck stop.
“Come on Violet, lets take a potty break and see if there is anything fun in there we might need.”
They headed into the truck stop and back to the bathrooms. When they came back into the store there was a machine to one side and it had a head in it, and hands and a crystal ball. “Mom what is that?” Violet had never seen such a thing.
Her mother laughed “Oh that is a fortune teller, here we will do it. See you put a coin in here and then she will tell you your fortune.”
“It looks like a puppet, and not a person..”
“Oh Violet, it is not a real person, it is not even a real fortune just a silly game. It will be fun.” Her mother placed a coin in the machine and turned the nob, suddenly the head and the hands moved, and her eyes opened, there was weird music and then she closed her eyes and stopped moving. Just then a small piece of paper came out of the front of the machine near where the coin went in.
“See this is my fortune. Here is a coin, you try and then we will read them together.” Violet put in her coin, turned the nob and the puppet again moved, opened her eyes, there was the music and then the fortune came out. She quickly grabbed it and said “ok what do they say?” ©
