Saturday, September 5, 2009

One is not a lot, Rusty.

As soon as Mark finishes his coffee, the camping trip finally begins and we have our first glimpse of swamp wildlife. Okay, I'm not an expert or anything, but I have to believe that there are more animals in the swamp than raccoons, alligators, and the occasional heron. I'm also a little surprised that Rusty is counting a group of raccoons as a lot of animals. Surely he's seen a family of raccoons before. Surely he's seen more animals of varying kinds in one place before. Maybe it's a good thing that Mark has decided to take him to the swamp for this camping trip since the kid obviously needs to get out of Lost Forest more. Speaking of Mark, what's up with that hat (and why do I have the overwhelming urge to ask him to fill up the gas tank on my car and check the tires and oil)? I never thought that I'd ever actually say this, but Mark is not a hat man. It just looks weird, but headgear aside, that mysterious POW! tells me that the action is about to ramp up (and by ramp up, I mean that we might find something out about the alligator poaching in the next week or two, even though as far as I know, Bob was still trying to tell Mary about the plan, but perhaps Stu and Phil decided to get an early start on things) and Mark and Rusty are about to stumble upon the alligator poaching operation. Well, that or they're about to stumble upon some sort of superhero fight. Perhaps it's Spider-Man and the Lizard or Batman and Killer Croc. (We'll probably never know, and it probably isn't either of those, but it's nice to dream, isn't it?)

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