A story about camping

This is a story Sophie told me after we looked up "unicorn" in the encyclopedia:

This is what you have to have: First, backpacks, stitches [matches], rocks, tent, sleeping bags, water, bucket, and hotdogs, marshmallows and soup

First, make a fire. Gather sticks from broken trees or break off little pieces for Sophie to carry. Make sure you have rocks for safety. Make them in a circle. If you don’t it will start raining. And then daddy takes out a stick in the patches, and then rubs it against the metal, then you put it against the firewood, and then you have fire. A big fire. Jesus cuts onions to make the clouds cry, and their children draw colored streaks in the sky.

To find a unicorn, first you go deep into the forest where the monsters jump out and say “boo.” You have to say “boo” back to them to scare them away. And then when you get past the monsters you can go down by the river, maybe around your place where you see, or maybe by the lake, you’ll see a unicorn. (oh and don’t forget to print this out for mommy). And Sophie has to sit down, and the unicorn -- if you are very still -- the unicorn will come next to Sophie, and then he’ll lay down on her lap and fall asleep.

THE END