3 out of 5 stars
It’s time for another Super Special, wahoo!! And I read this
way back in November, so I don’t remember any of it haha. Okay this is another
one where mega-millionaire Watson Brewer pays for the entire BSC to go on
vacation. You know, I question his motives sometimes. At least this time it’s
mostly free…his aunt is selling her lake home and wants to see if Watson wants
it instead. Kristy talks him into going for a few weeks and of course, bringing
along her friends to “baby-sit”.
The cabin on Shadow Lake is “…like a house. I mean, it’s large. …it must be able to sleep twenty-five people.” Yeah, we’re in
Karen brings along her 2 BFF’s, Hannie and Nancy. David Michael brings Nicky Pike and Linny Papadakis. Kristy brings every single person in the Baby-Sitters Club. Okay, not Logan and Shannon but no one cares about them anyway. So at the last meeting before vacation, we get a What Claudia is Wearing plus Stacey, summer edition.
Claud was wearing a pink tank top over a white tank top and a pair of neon pink-and-black bicycle shorts. Also, she was wearing three pairs of flop socks arranged so that her ankles looked like multicolored ice cream cones. Her sneakers were Day-Glo yellow.
Stacey was wearing a
simple (for her) outfit – black leggings, a long black T-shirt with a brilliant
starfish swooping across the front, black flop socks, and high-tops. “Doesn’t
black absorb heat?” I asked Stacey. Isn’t that why people wear a lot of white
in the summertime? Because it reflects the sunlight or something? You must be
boiling.”
Alright. It’s vacation day and they’re having to travel in a
convoy of 3 cars because Kristy was so selfish and brought so many people.
(Does she know how much food costs? I don’t think so.) Oh and they brought Boo
Boo and Shannon the dog along too. Who brings a cranky old cat on vacation, to
a lake house? Dawn is riding with Stacey, Watson, and the Three Musketeers.
She’s totally intrigued by the lake and how it got its name and she just knows
there’s a mystery somewhere and she’s determined to find it.
When they get to the house, they split girls and boys into the two dormitory style rooms. Even though there are way more girls than boys. Andrew is upset because it’s not a real log cabin. Jessi is designated as the one to find a boy on this vacation. Because he’s black. And Jessi is black. That’s how it works in BSCLand. Stacey has to deal with Sam the flirt and at first is annoyed by his “Dahling, you look ravishing” act but it starts to grow on her. I don’t remember them actually dating, but I guess they do. Kind of creepy.
Mary Anne gets the baby-sitting scare of the trip when the 3 younger girls go off on their own in the woods. But they just found an old semi-built cabin that they wanted to turn into a clubhouse. The 3 boys are jealous and want to build their own and even bet the girls that they can do better. Of course, they don’t. The boys don’t get along all together, and they don’t really know what they’re doing building the clubhouse, so of course it turns into a huge mess.
Mallory’s entire story-line consists of her getting eaten by lots and lots of bugs. Seriously, that’s all she gets. Claudia decorates the family boat as the Loch Ness monster and enters it in a contest against all the big fancy boats. She wins a prize for “Most Spirit”…you know, the pity prize.
Dawn finally finds her mystery: an entire family disappeared from their home one night, off the island in the middle of the lake, and no one knows how or why. And of course, Dawn decides the BSC should go spend the night on that island. By themselves. But then when the time comes, she freaks out and changes her mind. Kind of unusual for her, to get scared. She didn’t freak out when she was hearing noises inside her bedroom walls. She does end up going with the other girls of course and having fun, in between getting scared silly. She also finds an old locket in the rubble of the burned down house that belonged to the young girl who disappeared there. The ghost is communicating with her or something.
In other news, Kristy body shames her mother for wearing a bikini and ruminates on whether she’d ever wear one: I, for one, do not wear bikinis. I do not think anyone should, really, especially if they are past thirty. But, in all honesty, my mom looked pretty good – for an over-thirty mother. Maybe I will wear a bikini one day, but only after I actually have a chest. When you’re as flat as I am, there is no sense in wearing a skimpy little top. Why should I, when I don’t even need a bra yet? At the rate I’m growing, though, I probably won’t have a chest until I’m, like, twenty-eight, and then there’ll just be a measly two-year window of time in which to find and wear a bikini.
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