The Journey Continues

Somehow Donnie was able to convince the other three boys to continue the journey to find The Holy Grail.  Bobby was very willing.  Doug felt he would be able to protect all of us.  Danny was the only one who was a little reluctant.  Before Schmendrick turned into a caterpillar, he had magically provided four lunches for us to take with us on this adventure.

Schmendrick had pointed them in the direction to go but as they wandered through the woods they began to wonder what path to take.  Bobby noticed an actual path in a beautiful garden.  It was easy for the boys to decide.  The trail was only wide enough for one person to walk at a time.  Doug decided he should go first.  Donnie went next.  Bobby followed.  Naturally Danny went last.  However, after thinking about it for a while, Danny was afraid of being attacked from behind so he asked Bobby to go last.  Danny felt somewhat at ease being between Donnie and Bobby.

"Where do you think this path will take us?"  Bobby asked.

"Maybe to a castle which is in need of knights.  We could work as squires."  Doug answered.

"Tigers and lions and bears, oh my!"  Danny thought to himself.

"Hopefully to The Holy Grail!"  Donnie enthusiastically exclaimed.

Their imaginations were running wild as to where this path would lead.  Doug saw a worm crawling on the ground.  He picked it up and ate it.  The other boys looked at Doug as if he had lost his mind.  I saw it on one of those survivor shows on television.  Worms are a great source of protein,   While Doug was chewing on the worm, he said, "This tastes like a sour Gummi worm."  The boys looked at him in disbelief.  Bobby saw a worm crawling and he gave it a try.  "It does taste like a sour Gummi worm." 

The trees in the garden were not your normal fruit trees.  They were apple and peach candy rings.  There was a little waterfall and when you tasted it, it was your favorite soda.

"The water tastes like grape soda."  Donnie said.

"No it doesn't"  Danny argued.  "It tastes like root beer."

"I think it tastes like green river!"  Bobby said.

"Chocolate milk"  Doug exclaimed.  "Yummy!"

The waterfall fell into a small pond.  There were green, red, orange and yellow fish swimming. 

"They look like Swedish fish,"  Donnie said,  "My Grandma used to get them for me."  With that, he reached into the pond and easily scooped up a fish.  He ate it.  "It does.  It does."  Donnie was so excited,  The boys quickly kneeled down by the pond and started fishing without  poles.

What the boys did not know was that they had wandered into Candy Land.  Truly "there is no one happier than a kid in a candy store".  Well, in this case, even happier as all the sweets were free.