Introduction:

Falling down a rabbit hole, to what seemed like the middle of the earth, is not something you forget very easily.  This was all that white rabbit's fault!  You can imagine how shocking it was to see a white rabbit in a waistcoat looking at a pocket watch.  So, with my interest piqued I followed him, which landed me into this falling predicament.  Wonderland was the most fascinating place I had ever seen and had the most eccentric characters I had ever imagined.  They have their own set of rules and ways of thinking.  If they don't like the current rules, they will just change them, and proceed as if they were always that way.  During my trip through Wonderland, I met many of the citizens, such as a grinning Cheshire cat who could disappear and reappear on command.  I also met the Hatter who was having a very chaotic tea party with the March Hare and a Dormouse.  Finally, I met the Queen of Hearts.  Let me tell you an example of exactly how peculiar this place was: I played a game of croquet with the Queen of Hearts, using a giraffe mallet and a grapefruit ball, and the Queen had her own set of rules and her subjects that made sure she won.  And if she didn't like what you were doing she would scream, "Throw them in the pit."  After my adventures, all of a sudden I was back on she shores of the rivers with my sister.

When I first returned from Wonderland, it was difficult to decide if what I had just experienced was reality, or just a dream.  Cards, scattered all around me, seemed to be fluttering about though I noticed very little breeze.  All the events that I had experienced felt extremely real and hard to imagine as just a dream!  I began running in the direction that I recalled the white rabbit and I had taken.  No luck.  Although I searched and searched I never did find that rabbit hole.  However, I was sure it was no dream.  Sometime later, I was in my sitting room conversing to my cats Dinah and my new cat Snowdrop, acquired after my trip to Wonderland. I was gazing into my mirror and pondering whether there could be a world existing on the other side and just like that I was able to step through the mirror.  And to my surprise I had returned to what looked like a different part of Wonderland.  This time it was like a chess board rather then a card game.  I noticed some people who looked familiar, but I just couldn't quite place them.  On this trip I met Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red Queen, and the White Queen.  With so many adventures and so many new people met, I knew that I hadn't been dreaming.

Growing up it was a little difficult since I had no proof of my adventures, so people thought I was crazy.  I eventually stopped telling people and soon they forgot that I was, supposedly, loony.  Then I got married and had a daughter, Gloria.  When she was little I told her the stories of my times in Wonderland and she loved them all.  I even watched her play outside my mother home, looking for the rabbit hole so she could go to Wonderland.  She never found it and as she grew older she started believing that these were only made up stories.  Now she is an adult, married, and has children of her own.  I wonder what they will think of my tales...

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Two little children were sitting by the window.  Their little faces pressed against the glass so they were sure they couldn't miss her as soon as she stepped into sight.  Their mother came around the corner and scolded them for making marks.  She told them, "Tyler! Jane! Get off of that window!  You know the harder you look for her, the longer it will take her to arrive."  But they were too excited to find something else to do.  It was almost dark and nearly their bedtimes, so they were wishing she would hurry so they would get to see her before bed.  It had been too long since they had seen their Grandma Alice and they were going to get to see her for a whole long weekend.  They thought about all they were going to do while she was there: play games, bake cookies and pies, and listen to stories that she would tell them.  As they were imagining all these fun things they were going to do with Grandma Alice, they saw movement down the road.  Their little faces were immediately against the window, again.  Their grandma's car came slowly down the road, and eventually stopped in their driveway.  They ran to the door, almost running over their mother, yelling, "Grandma's here!!"  They burst out the door and into their grandmother's arms.  As all three of them squeezed through the door, Grandma Alice greeted her daughter, Gloria.

After dinner it was time for bed, and after the children finished brushing their teeth, they ran to their grandmother and said, "Grandma Alice, please tell us a bed time story! Please Please PLEASE!!"  Smiling down at the grandchildren, she said she would tell them one each night she stayed with them.  Since Tyler and Jane were sharing a bedroom so Grandma Alice could have a bed, they excitedly ran to Tyler's room to settle down for their bedtime story.



On to the First Night...

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