Pretzels!!!! Hurray!!!!- by Owen Storey

My favorite kind of pretzels is called Wetzels Pretzels. They taste really good because they have a bunch of butter. Wetzels Pretzels doesn’t only have pretzels. They have hot dogs and Wetzels Bitz, which are kind of like chunks of pretzels. I wonder if they call it Wetzels Pretzels because Wetzel is the name of the person who started it, or if they just did that to rhyme. I think they did it just to rhyme, but who knows?

My family and I go there for some celebrations, like passing a test. I remember passing a test--I think it was a third grade or maybe a second grade test—and we went to Wetzels. I do Johns Hopkins, an education program for gifted youth. They have different kinds of courses, K-6 (which is called EPGY), and also some extra courses like Problem Solving II and III.

My brother and I get to decide where we want to go when we pass a test on Johns Hopkins and other important tests. Sometimes we go to get pretzels, but we only know one place where there’s a Wetzels Pretzels. It’s at Hilltop Mall. I feel good when the celebration is because of me passing a test, and I feel proud of my brother when it’s because of him…and glad that I get to eat pretzels!