Hello! - December 30, 2003

Hi, my name is Liv Collins. My birthday is October 2nd; I am 7 now. My favorite sea creature is a dolphin. My favorite land animal is a cat. I like to run races, read books, and draw pictures! I am going to write some journal entries here about our boat adventure from my point of view....... Here is a picture of me:

I think that it is really boring to go to the boat when I could be playing! But I do get to watch a lot of movies while Mom and Dad work. We don't get much cable TV out on the island that we live on now (we live at my Granny's house since November). I really hated to rent our house out because I thought that it was really nice. I think that on the trip I might see a mermaid!!! Here is a story I wrote about a mer-cat:

Serena & the sea monster

story and clay illustrations by liv collins

Once upon a time, deep below the Caribbean Sea, there was a young mer-cat named Serena. One day she was swimming along looking for shells when she saw a very strange shell. It was bright, bright pink and when she touched it it was as hot as the sun!

Suddenly, just when she touched the shell, a huge sea monster with one gigantic eye rose up from the depths and grabbed her!

She thought that she would NEVER get loose from the gigantic tentacle, but .........

A black paw reached out and slapped the tentacle! It hurt so much that the tentacle went down, down, down back into the depths... never to be seen again. The black paw turned out to be a very handsome boy mer-cat. Serena and the black cat fell in love and lived happily ever after.

THE END