"There are houses where we live! And there are pine trees on the hill. And there is the library, and there is the Subway, and there is the restaurant, and there is the church with the blue door, and there is the bridge that takes you into the city with the Arch."

Fred has a vague sense that if he had studied more geography he would know where the city with the arch is.

As it is, southwest is a reasonable direction. 

"There's a bag of toys near your feet. Is there any music you want to listen to?"

"I like Silly Songs with Larry!"

"I like Silly Songs with Larry too!"

They can listen to Silly Songs with Larry.

If Zaida looks at the bag of toys, she will find a water bottle full of glitter, a wallet full of old membership cards, a whiteboard with markers, a coloring book with crayons, a deck of cards, a slinky, a plastic cell phone, some old magazines, Goodnight Moon, and a lift-the-flap picture book about Noah's Ark.

Zaida likes the whiteboard! She draws a field of flowers and lots of stars in the sky above them, and then a spaceship, and then a dragon attacking the spaceship, and then Saint Martha attacking the dragon. Saint Martha can fly like Superman in this picture, because that's cooler.

Fred drives and sings along to Silly Songs with Larry.

Zaida also sings along! She's pretty bad at singing, but she knows the words to most of the songs. Except the lips song and the Song of the Cebu, because those are hard.

Eventually they pull in to a Subway for lunch!

Fred helps Zaida out of her car seat. 

Zaida is able to make it out of the car with only a little wincing. 

Zaida wants to know why the Subway is different inside than the Subway is supposed to be. This one has more tables.

"There are actually many Subways in the world."

"Wow. Do they all have BREAD."

"They do!!! They do all have bread."

"I like bread!!"

"That is good! You can have some bread, and also if you want you can have some things on the bread."

"I like bread with CHEESE and NO LETTUCE."

"Then we can order that!"

Fred herds Zaida to the ordering place and orders a tuna sub.

Zaida is very happy to have a sandwich that only has cheese and bread on it! The people she lives with now never let her do that. They always make her eat VEGETABLES.

She happily munches her food and then asks Fred if he knows how to get to her house from here.

Fred is on his phone!

"Does this look like the arch near your home?" he says, showing her a picture of the St. Louis Arch.

"Yeah! That's the Arch!"

"It looks like it will take us about three days to get there, and then you can be with your mom."

"OK!"

They finish their food and go back to the cars!

Zaida is VERY excited to see her mommy and her auntie and her brother again. Her mommy and her auntie and her brother are her favorite people in the whole world.

"Will we get in trouble after we see Mommy?"

"Probably not? But you might have to go live in a new place. It's called Mexico."

"Will Mommy and Caleb and Auntie Keturah be there?"