Her mental notes were repeated over and over until she was able to find something to write on. It was actually a chocolate frog wrapper, but that didn't matter. It wasn't like she was going to turn that part in. AJ would transfer it to a nice and clean sheet of parchment... probably ten minutes before she had to hand it in. Ahem.

There were even more orange flags then there was this morning. It was a good thing AJ drew a unicorn on hers so she would know which one it was. Most people probably just put their name on the flag, but where was the fun in that? Wading out in the water the lion spotted her flag. Okay. Now she just needed to know how much of a difference there was from this morning.

She smoother out her chocolate wrapper and checked her watch. It was exactly six hours and twelve and a half minutes later. Would it really matter if she was a few minutes late, she wondered. Not only that, but if she did happen to be late she just wouldn't tell Airey. AJ would just mark down the time she should have been there on her little log and no one would know any better.

All she needed now was her handy dandy ruler. Where did she put that thing? AJ patted herself down, and was just about to get upset when she found it in her back pocket. Oh yeah. It had been smacking her back while she walked out here. How could she forget it was there? Anywho...

The measurement was now reading two feet and three inches. What was that in centimeters again? AJ walked back to the shore and jotted down more information on her chocolate wrapper.