Around the World Trip - 3 Reel Set and Booklet cc1965
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| Dear Diary: At last I've found time to use you. Everything
has happened so fast and furiously that I can hardly believe I'm really on my way around the world! Imagine . . . Barbie Roberts, All-American California schoolgirl, on this luxury-plus liner with my family and friends . . . and all because of what happened just five days ago . . . | VIEW-MASTER REEL Last Tuesday, Daddy must have thought I'd finally flipped when I burst into the living room and told him to start packing. Skipper just snorted when I told her we were all going around the world. Then I told them! I had won first prize in a National High School Fashion Drawing Contest—a trip around the world for the whole family—and we could take along two friends! | PICTURE A That day and the next were really hectic! Telling Ken and Midge they were going, shopping like mad, and then packing all those dreamy outfits. Skipper even dragged Ken in to watch. He said he'd bring his camera along to take pictures everywhere we went, so I decided to take my paints and brushes. Besides the big pictures, I'm going to decorate this diary with little color sketches. [PICTURE A The next few days were so full of rushing, getting on planes, arriving at New York City, posing for pictures as a contest winner, that it was a relief to stand on the deck of this fabulous steamship and wave good-bye to the tremendous New York skyline. And the bon voyage basket of fruit the cabin boy brought us (sent by our California friends) started our trip out on just the right note! As I sit here writing in this scrumptious cabin with its funny round portholes, I'm looking forward to landing in England tomorrow! Skipper just barged in to tell me that Ken and Midge want to play shuffleboard. I think I'll sketch them for my diary. I can't get over how solemn and polite every- one is in England. Even the London bobby didn't smile when Ken asked him the time (Ken's watch was still on Cali- ETC ETC |
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