simulation entry

June 12, 1849

                    Dear Diary,

     It has been 24 days since I have written in this journal. It has been 41 days since we started our journey to California! Well, now we are going along the Platte River. The water is brown and its full of mud. We can't even drink that water. Well, to our luck we came along a fort. It was called Fort Kearny. Unluckily, the owner of the fort was very smart. He knew that this was the only fort for miles, so he doubled the price for anything we bought. We could sell things for half the price. Well, we were low on food so we bought 500 pounds of food. We have around 600 pounds of food now. Some wagon company sold 2 harmonicas for $.50 each! That is very cheap. We have only 280 dollars left. We had a lot to worry about. I am not so confident about reaching California anymore. It may be a lot harder than I thought.

June 22, 1849

                 Dear Diary,

  I was right about what I said. Today, was one of the days someone in my wagon company would do something ludicrous. The person who did that was Kate. Well this is how our day went. So, as we edged nearer and nearer to the ford for Platte river, we saw someone shouting to us. We came up to him and asked him his name and why he was shouting. He said his name was Professor Theodore Farnsworth. He also told us that he had an elixir that could cure cholera and make headaches go away. Kate bought it and drank it and Michelle negotiated for a better price and then bought it. She didn't drink it. After 30 seconds, Kate became sick. I knew that this would do the exact opposite of what he said it would do. That is why I didn't drink it. Soon, we came to the ford. It was night so we rested there. Well it is about time I should go to sleep, but one more thing. For some reason, the river was running unusually high. So, we had 2 options to cross the river. One float our wagon across it. I wanted to do this, but sadly we didn't. The second option was to wait until the water goes down. We went with that. Well, looks like it is getting late. I should sleep now.