It was a Saturday morning when we arrived to Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, also known as “Roissy”, where we took the train to the city center to check in to our hotel. The trip took about one hour and thirty minutes and we were faced with a very unwelcoming experience throughout the train and metro transfer stations. When we transferred from the train to the metro there was a huge corridor that we had to walk and we were faced with two black men, into their thirties, who seemed quite sketchy and somewhat malevolent........

This busy family needs a vacation, but they don’t know where to go. Mom and Dad want peace and quiet. Grandma wants to go somewhere hot. Fluffer wants to go somewhere that pets can go, too! The pig-tailed narrator gathers all this data and makes a chart to help determine the perfect vacation destination. Learning math is fun when a vacation is the answer!

Snap! With their new cameras Snap! a brother and sister Snap! take pictures of their vacation. But when they look at their photographs they see: 1. The back of Dad's head 2. Feet 3. A container of noodles That's it? Does 1 + 2 + 3 = summer vacation? What about how it felt to swim in the lake? What about the stories their cousins told and the taste of a just-invented strawberry and whipped cream dessert? For those memories—the memories of summer and the memories of family that mean the most—they need to look someplace else. Someplace deep inside. Someplace permanent.