???ille.net I typed as I finished the address. I glanced at the top right corner to see the little logo spin. "What's taking so long??" I asked myself.

Soon enough the page changed. I moved the mouse cursor directly over where the word Members should be. I had long ago memorized where it was. But instead of the normal Whyville black, the page background was white.

My face frowned as I saw the words in a larger font than the rest of the page: The page cannot be found. I gasped in horror as I rushed to the refresh button. No effect... Again... I thought maybe it was only temporary.

With no other choice, I went over to the long-abandoned neopets.com -- I'd left that site in boredom compared to Whyville a year ago. (My sister Lilymon left Whyville 8 months ago to head to Neopets, for some reason.) Anyway, I spent a lot of time on that site learning what had happened there while I was gone.

Every day after that I spent trying to enter Whyville, failing and heading to Neopets. I thought some criminals were on Whyville just as before.

Then one day I saw a message telling me that the Whyville servers were getting moved and that I could give them my e-mail to get notified when Whyville returned. I never bothered to check again, knowing Whyville was safe and so was my account.

I took a trip to Vancover, Canada to meet some family who lived just west of Alberta, the province in which I live. I was lucky enough to receive time on the computer, and I rushed to Neopets instead of Whyville.

I played tourist with my cousins who are local to that area, and left the computer to discover the world of "fun without a computer" that I'd lived with when I was a much younger kid.

After the long boring car trip home that took 10 hours, I ran to the computer and checked my e-mail, hoping that I had received the message telling me that Whyville was up and running. No luck.

Finally, one day I went to the address bar and typed http://www.whyville.net and waited. IT WAS BACK! I rushed in and heard that this was the third day Whyville was up. I said hi to all my friends read my mail and continued with my Whyville account.