Alone+In+the+Land+Down+Under

 Lost In the Land Down Under!!!!! By: Christina Daughtry, Danielle Hillin, Rikki Glezen, and Jamielee Jakubowski

= “It’s done! It’s finished!” Danielle yelled excitedly. Our hot air balloon was finally aired up. We were taking a trip across the world to Weipa, Australia. We started getting everything strapped in, when Jamielee realized that if we wanted to make it on time, we had to leave now! We all got in the balloon and we were on our way…. A sudden blast of cold wind blew in their faces. Jamielee looked up and instantly recognized the clouds. We were heading straight for hurricane Pete. When they were watching the news yesterday they saw that Pete was supposed to be a category four. “Pull up!” Jamielee yelled, telling Danielle to raise the balloon higher. The balloon started spinning out of control and everyone started screaming for their lives. It finally stopped after about five minutes! Jamielee exclaimed, “Pete has blown us off course!” All at once we asked Rikki, “Where is your compass?”  “It’s in my survival pack, which is under the balloon!" she stated sadly! Everybody sighs with great desperation! We knew we were almost to Weipa, Australia, so we must be close to land!  All of the sudden we hear a seagull! Everyone looks up, and we notice the seagull is headed straight for our balloon! “Oh no!”, Danielle screamed. Christina yells,   “Everyone hold on!” Before we knew it, the seagull hit the middle of the balloon! Everyone tries to hold on as long as they could, but right when we think it’s all over, we hit a tree and Danielle falls off! Rikki and Christina grab each of her hands and pull her up! While Danielle is already in the balloon, Jamielee grabs a loose rope and gets on the side of the balloon yelling,  “I am coming Danielle,” and jumps off, but lucky for her, Rikki, Christina, and Danielle grabbed the rope in time and saved her too! Just about 10 seconds later they hit ground. Rikki is the first one to come to and says, “Is everyone alright!” Everyone says “Yes!” Then she checks to make sure the survival pack is ok! Rikki looks up and says “It’s almost night, we need to find shelter and FAST!!! ** Christina exclaims, “Well, just for tonight we can sleep in the balloon basket.”** **   Everyone else sighs, “Ok.”** **  Rikki next says, “Ok, we can use the blanket in the survival pack. In the morning we can look** **for a better shelter.” Everyone got comfortable and finally falls asleep! In the morning Rikki wakes** **up first and goes off to look for some sort of cave or something, she leaves everybody a note with a** **black rock and a piece of the basket! Everybody wakes up and goes to look for her and finds her!** **She was on her way back and says excitedly, “I found a cave we can sleep in and it has a stream** **and everything!”** = =    = =   ** They went to the balloon to get all their stuff together and were off to the cave! They got** **settled in the cave and all of the sudden Christina’s stomach growls! Rikki states “We can go** **fishing or hunt with the shotgun!”** ** We decide to let Christina and Jamielee go fishing, and Rikki and Danielle were going to go** **hunt for firewood! When they all got home Christina and Jamie had caught 8 fish, 2 fish for each** **person. Danielle and Rikki had found a lot of firewood, and were working on making a fire. Finally** **the sun got high enough to use Danielle’s glasses to magnify off the sun, and Ta-Da! They had** **__FIRE!__** **They ate and decided to stay here and would work on a signal fire tomorrow! They one by one** **started to fall asleep!** The next morning, they chose to go and explore the area. They decided to split up into two groups, Danielle and Christina went to find food that we might be able to eat in the South and the East. Rikki and Jamielee went see if they could find anything useful in the North and the West. They decided to meet back at Lake Boot, as they called it. A few hours later they all met up at Lake Boot. When all of a sudden, something lunged out of the bushes. It went straight for Jamielee’s throat! It’s a dingo!” Christina yelps. Everybody turns and sees Jamielee on the ground with the dingo on top of her. The dingo was skinny, but fierce! Luckily Jamielee, out of instinct, puts her arms in a “X” formation over her face! Danielle screams at Rikki, “Go get the survival pack! Hurry!” Christina tackles the dingo while Rikki runs like she is running for her life. Christina orders Danielle to go check on the Jamielee. Rikki is back in about three minutes with the survival pack. She chunks it at Danielle and goes over to where Christina has the dingo pinned down. She pulls the dingo out from under Christina and squeezes it’s neck until she can’t squeeze any more. After about ten minutes later the dingo fell to the ground unmoving. Rikki then gets up to go and check on Jamielee. = =  = =   Luckily for Jamielee she only had a few scratches and bite marks. Rikki disinfected the wounds and bandaged them. That’s when Danielle realized that the weather was changing and stated, “What if it gets cold? It’s January!” “Well, we are below the equator so the seasons are flipped. It’s summer here. The hottest it can get is 27.2 C and the coldest is 19.5 C,” Jamielee replied. “ Well Miss know-it-all, what resources can we use here?” Rikki questioned. “There are big supplies of Aluminum, Iron, Steel, and Coal in the area, but I don’t know how we could use them. There are also grains that we could eat if we run low on food supplies, or another animal attack.” Jamielee replied remembering the dingo attack. All of a sudden, a strange buzzing came from the sky…  = Everyone ran outside and looked up and saw a plane. Rikki got the flare gun and shot it up in the air. All hope was lost, when the plane kept going, but then it turned around. They all were screaming and jumping with joy. The plane landed and the pilot stepped out and stated, “You know if you would have walked about a mile North you would have gotten to the town of Weipa, they would have helped you all.” They all look at each other and laughed. Except for Jamielee, she was sad because she could have taken a nice hot bubble bath! Then she fainted! The other girls lugged her into the plane. They were finally heading home! !The End!

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