Punctuation Exercise
Add commas, semicolons, and apostrophes to this silly story:
Although everyone in Isabels family is either working or attending summer school the entire family is going to Taos New Mexico for two weeks. Hotels everywhere are expensive consequently Isabels mother has rented a house with four bedrooms. Because there are more bedrooms than the family needs Isabel wants to fly on Southwest Airlines and take her best friend Jilian but Isabels stepfather has decreed perhaps because he is a banker and fiscally responsible the family will drive from their home in Dallas to the rental in Taos. Of course Alex who is always impatient wants to drive straight through the night stopping only for gas and hamburgers whereas Isabels mother wants the family to break up the fourteen hour journey and spend the night in a motel in Amarillo Texas. Isabel declaring that she has no intention of camping out under the stars flatly refuses to go to Taos unless she can take all her stuffed animals Cecil B. DeLion, Moo-Moo, Douglas a jaguar and Ontario a green-eyed wolf. Isabel has already quarreled with her brother Alex who thinks she is selfish to take up so much space in the car with her possessions but her mother takes up for her because she wants Isabel to be happy on this family vacation the last she will take before she goes off to college in the fall. Her mother wonders having had an unhappy vacation with a very discontent Isabel in Galveston the previous year whether Isabel will be content without her best friend Jilian however Isabels mother has vowed never to take Jilian on a trip again in the past she has always gotten homesick and become frightened of the noise of cicadas insisting that cicadas in Dallas are much quieter and less menacing.