#55

Today was "Holes" at the Sauk Theater.  Naomi was with the lights.  I went with Daddy and Iva.  How do you say Stanley backwards?  That was the boy's last or middle name:  Stanley and then you have to say it backwards.  Stanley the Fourth.  Every son in his family has been named Stanley, his grandfather and his sons.

He was sent to dig holes at Camp Green Lake for 18 months because he was accused of stealing shoes when his friend, Zero, stole them and put them on his car.  The car went on the highway and they fell off.  The camp director, Mr. Sir, didn't believe him when he said they fell from the sky. 

The warden wasn't nice.  Her secret ingredient for nail polish was rattlesnake venom.  She scratched Mr. Sir with it, but luckily it wasn't yellow spotted lizard.  If it's rattlesnake, you usually won't die. But if it's yellow spotted lizard, you usually will die.  But it wasn't.

I liked the show.  I had watched part of the movie but I hadn't finished it.  I haven't read the book.  I'm going to read it, maybe.  I don't know if we have it.

Madame Zeroni was a fortune teller which his great grandfather had gotten to see.  He supposedly had gone over the mountain with a little pig that was supposed to get bigger until it was really fat.  Then he could take it and get married.  He said he had a heart full of love and she said she preferred a fat pig.

I should have mentioned earlier that it was by the same author who wrote "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" which is very funny.

He was supposed to carry Madame Zeroni up the hill or his family would be cursed and he forgot,.  He remembered when he was out at sea.  There was a song he sang when he carried the pig up and he was supposed to say the same song when he carried Madame Zeroni.  I don't remember the words and if I did, I would put them up.

It was a good story.