It was just as he’d imagined it, only better, and he couldn’t wait to see it up close! In the airport, it felt like his family waited forever for the suitcases to appear on the carousel and their turn in the taxi line to come up. Finally, they were on their way to Gabe’s house. Their cab sped along the edge of the city, and Benjamin craned his neck so he could see the tops of the buildings as they zipped by. Suddenly Lucy was practically in his lap, trying to see for herself. “Hey, that’s my arm!” Benjamin complained. “You’re crushing me!” He could see why she didn’t want to miss anything, though. The sky-scrapers were tall—he’d expected that. But there were so many of them! And where there weren’t buildings, there were cars in traffic. Or crowds of people waiting to cross the street. The city reminded Benjamin of an ant colony. It was busy and social, like that. But much bigger, of course. He leaned down for his backpack again, this time to take out his notebook.
