Vacation

"Vacation"*

*"'That's a great place to work!" shouted my 16-year-old
brother after coming home from the first day at his first
job. "I get two weeks' paid vacation."

"I'm so glad," said my mother.

"Yeah," added John. "I can't wait to find out where they send me."

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"Touring Vatican"*

*On a spring break trip to Italy, my friends and I were
standing just inside St. Peter's Basilica, the second
largest church in the world.

The tour guide explained, "This church is so large that
no man on earth could hit a baseball from one end
to the other, not Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, or even Mark McGuire."

My group stared in silence at the beautiful marble
sculptures, intricate paintings, and glorious mosaics
all around the enormous building.

Then one girl interrupted the silence with an astonished
question: "You mean, they actually let them hit baseballs in here?"
Received on Mon Mar 21 09:01:54 2011