13 Little Blue Envelopes 201-300

Ginny ends up going to stay in a youth hostel, but it was really gross, so she left. She went to a hotel, but the last room had just been rented out. A nice man in the lobby could tell she was really distressed and had no place to stay, so he told her she could stay with his family. She spent the next week with the Knapp family. The mother and father were very detailed and overly energetic, and the daughter, who was about Ginny’s age, was very moody and kept to herself. After about a week, she finally got a “day off” to go to the museum her aunt directed her to talk to Piet about the painting, The Night Watch. Piet didn’t really say anything significant, and Ginny was starting to get disappointed and frustrated with her aunt’s pointless quests. Her next letter tells her to go to Copenhagen, Denmark. There, she meets an artist friend of her aunt’s named Knud. Knud lives in and paints from a house boat. Ginny goes to visit him in it, and she immediately falls asleep. When she wakes up, they’re sailing north watching the sunset. Knud tells her that these sunsets were one of Aunt Peg’s favorite things. Ginny then went to stay in another hostel, and there she met four teenagers from Australia and became friends with them. The next letter from Peg tells her to immediately get on a train and go catch a boat to Greece. Ginny tells her friends about her trip to Greece, and why she has to go, and they all decide they want to go with her. When they got there, she was instructed to open the twelfth letter. This one told her a lot about Aunt Peg’s life. It said that Peg had been in love with Richard and that when he told her he loved her, she freaked out and ran away. The journey Peg had led her on across Europe was the same journey she had taken. It also says that when Peg got really sick, she returned to live with Richard. It also tells her to open the thirteenth letter when she’s ready, because the letter has a very important task in it. Ginny decides she’s going to open it, but she wants a little time first. She and her friends go swimming in the sea in Greece first, but when they get out to read the letter, Ginny discovers all of their bags have been stolen, including the letter. The only things she still has are her passport and ATM card, and she only has forty pounds left in her ATM account. Ginny gets ahold of Richard, and he gets her a plane ticket to London, and when she gets there, he tell her that he and Aunt Peg were married in the last part of her life, so Richard is technically her uncle. When she finds this out, she kind of freaks out and runs away. She goes to see Keith, and he tells her that she needs to go back and talk to Richard. When she does, she goes into her Aunt Peg’s room and looks at her Aunt’s favorite painting. She feels it, and feels a weird lump underneath it, and discovers a key. She thinks the key is to her Aunt’s art studio in Harrod’s. In there, she finds a bunch of paintings her aunt did in the last part of her life along with a phone number for a man named Cecil.