My Family Vacation

Beth was an interesting woman to say the least. She was very talkative and had an eccentric personality. She might have been a smidge under the influence on this very normal afternoon but she was still a nice and fun person to talk to. Ashley and Kevin and I got to know her and all about her family all too well sitting at the bar at TGI Friday’s.

“The best things in life are the people we love the places we’ve been…. And the memories we’ve made along the way.” by Unknown. 2017 started off terrible but then soon got better from a little help from God. My family found out we won a trip to Hawaii. My parents were deciding whether or not they should take us kids with, my brothers Chris was 18, Matt was 11, Nic was 8, and I was 15. Then my parents talked and the decided that it would be our last family vacation with just our family saying chris went to college the next year and probably will find a girlfriend. Hawaii I know made me look at life a different was saying everything that just happened to me.

My first trip to Disney World, now that, that was a memorable trip. That trip was one of the most magical and happiest memories of my life. It was back in 2008, I had just turned 6 years old a few months before we left to go there. It was summertime, and the weather was perfect. I remember being so bored on the way there because I am an only child so I didn’t have anyone to entertain me besides myself. My mom’s side of the family went on this trip with us, and at the time I was the only grandkid, and the only kid at all. So once we finally were almost there I remember passing the big ‘Welcome to Disney World” sign and being so excited I peed my pants--my mom was pretty mad, but my dad thought it was kinda funny so I didn’t get in too much trouble.

The best trip I have ever been on would have to be our first family trip to Florida. I have been on many trips however it was the very first still a lot of my family has seen the ocean,or even left Tennessee. A eight day trip in a beautiful beach house surrounded by family gave us great memories and we go once a year ever since. My dream job would be doing anything that involves helping people I really enjoy having people leave happy. Maybe working in my own restaurant because I love too cook and food usually leave people smiling. There would be good food and Good music as well as kid friendly so, the entire family could enjoy themselves. I have a dog she is a Pomeranian name Skylar. She's only nine months old all black with curly hair. My

This year on Spring Break my family went on vacation to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. We traveled there a couple of times when I was younger, but don’t have any memories except for the flight. I want to share two favorite things that were awesome about our trip, the food and the gift shops. I really enjoyed both of them because the food tasted delicious and the gift shops had a bunch of cool items such as chocolate, medication, beach towels, and a lot of expensive jewelry and antiques that just cost too much.

As a child, I believed that I was invincible. Nothing stood in my way and if it did, I just tore the obstacle down from the source. Whether it was trees to climb, pools to jump in, or wild hair getting in my way; I always overcame them. There was point in my childhood though, I realized not everything was under my control and power. I didn’t receive everything I desired like I was believing. My childhood untainted mind was rocked with a new discovery and mindset. Of all places for this change to happen, it was on a family vacation to Disney World.

It is a torrential, snowy day in late December in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Outside lies men in coats as thick as armor trying to plow away the snow as it falls. Their hands are numb and their efforts are proved useless in such long waves of endless snow. You are trying to navigate through the storm along the streets in a cold, metal car. Snowflakes pile on the windshield and block your view of the road. This does not seem like a lot of thrilling excitement! I know our family would better benefit from being elsewhere rather than being huddled up by a fire inside the house. I want our family to take a trip to Florida during winter break because our family could escape from cold weather, it would be another amazing place to bond as a family, and it would be an inexpensive trip if planned well.

Every year my family and I would decide on the country to visit for our Fourth of July family vacation. It has been a tradition of ours for a while now. Our goal is to visit all of the countries in the world and learn about the many different cultures for ourselves. We are all humans at the end of the day and we are all similar in more ways than we realize. The reason is that we just don’t want to remain complacent in a comfortable bubble, due to the fear of the unknown or false information. Therefore, our next destination would be to Africa, particularly South Africa. After reading various blogs from the study abroad students at Temple University, two of the blog posts had captured my interests because both of their locations were in Africa.

This winter break was part of my construction month, so I was going about my project in many

Where in the world would you most likely want to visit?! I chose the Bahamas because it would seem like a very nice and beautiful vacation spot to go to. The capital of the bahamas is Nassau and the place I would love to stay at is in the Grand bahamas. Someday, I will take my mom and brother on a vacation to a city they have never been to before they would be so happy. I would be very excited! To go there because it seems like stuff I would want to do before I die. Even though, there is way more places I would like to visit out of state that is my main one that I chose. I've seen pictures on the internet of the bahamas and it looks so perfect and so pretty! That is one of my goals. I love the way the water looks and it just looks like the

If you could go anywhere I the world where would it be? I would go to Hawaii because of of the fun things you can do there. You can buy a package for a weekend and you pick three things you want to do. I picked swimming with the sharks, Volcano hike, and jungle tour.

As I was riding in the car on the way back to the airport, I couldn’t believe THAT was how my summer vacation ended. Just one week before that my family and my cousin’s family were on our way to Minneapolis, because that was where we were flying out of. The rest of my family was all driving. We were going on our first vacation as a big family. There was about 28 of us going to Orange Beach, Alabama. The summer before that my mom and aunts were trying to find a place for all of us to go together. They finally decided on a beach house in Alabama.

There are certain memories that we have that we can remember like they happened yesterday. Many of those memories that have special meaning to me were of family vacations when I was young growing up with my brothers and sisters. Family memories are important to many of us because they take us back to a time or place that was special. One particular family vacation I remember vividly, and it’s a story I have shared with my kids on many occasions. Over the 40 or more years since that memorable vacation, I still smile and think how lucky I was growing up with a mother and father that did everything to give their kids an unforgettable memory.

It was 2:57 p.m and I was sitting at my desk at school trying to concentrate on what the teacher was saying ,but how? It was the very last day of school and I was feeling bored , too bored. When the bell finally rang signaling the end of the day, I got up and rushed out of the room with energy I didn’t know I had. Was this real? Was summer finally here? YES!!!!!!!!!! I was out of the building and I was jumping around and couldn’t wait for my parents to pick me up. Eventually though I saw a silver mini van come into view, my parents were finally here! Once I got home I immediately asked the options for the places we could go to for vacation. After a while of thinking we narrowed the options down to 3 places. All of the options sounded fantastic and I couldn’t believe they were letting ME decide where we could go! I could either choose to go to New York, Adventureland, or even Disneyland! The problem was choosing the place we should go to. While I was pondering on which place to go, the phone suddenly rang.

It was the summer of 2015, and I woke up early for my two-week vacation to Costa Rica. It was weird being up this early on summer break, but it was worth it. I made sure my bag was ready to go and that I packed everything. I brushed my teeth took a shower, and put my sweatshirt and pants on. From experience, I knew that the airport temperature would be cold so I wanted to feel warm. I came downstairs and arrived in front of a plate of pancakes. When I was half way done my sister finally came downstairs. My dad entered the kitchen, and he got a little worried he said, “If we don’t hurry we could miss our plane”! From the 4 years of traveling on a plane, we always were on time and nothing bad ever happened, this might be the time. My family rushed to the car, and we all started freaking out and my whole family was yelling and shouting. Everyone that passed us were looking at us like crazy. We finally reached the airport and lugged our bags through the whole airport trying to make our flight. My aunt called my mom wondering where we were. My mom said, “We aren’t going to make it. Just leave without us”, then, my aunt asked what happened and what we were going to do. My mom didn’t have all the answers, but I knew we were going to figure it out as a family like we always do.