Super Special #5 - California Girls!

Plot:
The girls win the lottery (?!?!) and decide to use the money to take a two week vacation to California to stay with Dawn's dad and brother. Dawn's dad takes the second week off work, but during the first week his girlfriend, Carol, hangs around a lot so she can be the girls chauffeur, which is really really nice of her, but Dawn and her brother Jeff can't stand her.

Highlights:

• Dawn's only real highlight of this entire book is that she hates Carol. Jeff can't stand her either. She thinks Carol is too young for her father and tries to act like a hip, cool kid. 
• Kristy and MaryAnne, of course, have to babysit while they are on vacation. MA babysits this girl, Stephie, who is a lot like she was when she was  younger - except she has asthma, which isn't a big deal but MA is scared to death about it. Kristy babysits these two crazy ass boys, and of course her sitting job is on the day that they go to Universal Studios, so she takes them along. 
• Mallory loses her goddamned mind. She decides she needs to be a "California girl" so she dyes her hair blonde and spends every cent she has on makeup. Then she has to borrow money from Jessi the entire trip. Then, her and Jessi are visiting Jessi's "friend" Derek on the set of his show (I say "friend" bc he's like seven years old and it's kind of weird) and they ask for extras. Mal thinks this is her chance, but nope - the director tells her he doesn't like her looks. She is distraught, and then Kristy is like you are acting like a jerk, stop it. 
• Speaking of Jessi's "friend", he makes Jessi think that she needs to get an agent while she is in California - during the two weeks she is in Cali, she is supposed to find and hire an agent. As an 11 year old. Luckily, she realizes that's stupid before she gets too far into it. 
• Of course one of them meets a boyfriend - this time it's Claudia. His name is Terry, they meet on the beach, of course they go on dates because that's what 13 year olds do in strange cities, but he is really really smart. At first Claudia tries to change for him, but then she acts like herself and they fall in love. 
• Stacey gets bit by the "surfing bug" and meets a bunch of surfing buddies. She goes to the beach with them almost daily, and then on the way home one evening they get into a car accident. The driver of her car causes it, and he asks her to lie for him. She doesn't, so that's the end of that friendship. Stacey calls Carol to come pick her up from the hospital, and Carol and Dawn go. The girls are thinking she will keep this a secret, but she tells Dawn's dad and they make her call their parents. Dawn gains a newfound respect for Carol, and immediately changes her mind about her. She writes her a letter and gives it to her in person. It fixes everything.