Greg Heffley is a boy who thinks that summer vacations are basically a three-month guilt trip. He doesn't believe necessary be outside all day frolicking just because the weather's nice. The way he likes to spend his summer vacation is in front of the TV, playing video games with the curtains closed and the lights turned off. Unfortunately his mom thinks different to Greg. She believes that it's not normal for a kid to stay indoors when it's sunny out, so she try to get him do something outside like play soccer, go to the park or go to the pool. But Greg said that he spent the first part at his friend Rowley’s pool, and that didn't work out so good. …show more content…
In the last year that Greg went to the town pool he swore to himself that he would never go back to that place again. He describes that go to the town pool was one of the most traumatic experiences of his life and every time his mom ask him to go to the town pool she makes that Greg puts some images in his young mind that he is been trying to forget.
In a Sunday his mother had a "house meeting" and said that money was tight that year and they couldn't afford to go to the beach, which means no family vacation. Now Greg only has two things to look forward to this summer. One is his birthday, and the other is when the last "Li'l Cutie" (the worst comic ever) runs in the paper.
He said that when the last "Li'l cutie" comes out, he and his dad will have to throw a party because they consider that something like that deserves a serious