Narrative About Tubing

The weather was decent, but evening was approaching and it was getting chillier. A lay on my stomach and steady the tube as Noah gets on. We grab on to the handles in front of us and the tube is propelled forward by the boat. We started picking up speed, but it was still easy to stay on the tube. We started reaching speeds of up to forty miles per hour. It was amazing, the water flashed by on either side. We were still going straight but we were ramping off waves. The water splashed in my face every time we went airborne and landed again, but I didn’t care. And then we started turning. We turned right, which was the side I was on. We just let the tube go where it wanted to go, but that was a mistake. The tube came closer to the gigantic wave made by the boat engine. We reamped of the wave, and I knew I was a goner. I began sliding off the tube, and I thought I was gone. Finally my body was flung into the water, but my hands had a firm grip on the handle bars. Uncle ralph slowed down enough so I could pull myself up on the tube. With most of my body soaking wet, and slippery. When we turned again we turned left. This time we tried to lean against the wave. The tactic worked pretty good, but me hit the wave again. Noah was gone in an instant. I look back and he is floating some ways back

As soon as we were done we went to play in the freezing water, climb on some old trees that fell, and fixed up our ples to fish. We all kept getting stabbed by the sharp hooks and lures everywhere.

It was an annual tradition for my dad’s side of the family to get together at this campground over Fourth-of-July weekend. All of the cousins, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and even some friends would be there. I was only eleven and it was a special year because I got to bring my friend Rachelle with me on this trip. We planned on swimming in the lake, tubing behind the boat, fishing, and playing yard games like bean bags and ladder-ball. Tubing was my favorite. There was no better feeling than the rush of falling off and bouncing across the water like a skipping stone.

We slowly drove out to the faster speed limit part of the lake, once there I was given a small briefing about hand signals. Gracye’s Dad told me, “Thumb down means slower, thumb up means faster, and hand horizontal means perfect.” After the briefing we got our life jackets on and literally jumped from the boat to the tubes which were now almost out of reach, quickly trailing behind the boat. The rope attached to the tube was quicklypulled out very far and was tightly being pulled from behind the boat, me on the biggest tube in the middle and Gracye on the smaller one on the right of me. We got to a moderately fast pace for me and it ended up not being as frightening as I thought it would be. Her Dad had started picking up the speed by this time and I was beginning to get scared. I signaled to have him slow down and he ended up slowing down after five minutes, or so I thought, but he was just winding the boat up for a whip which while happening, I was holding on for dear life and I felt my life flash before my

We couldn’t stand being in the car much longer, so everyone bounced out with our arms full of our swimming supplies and that’s when the splashing and laugh just beyond the gates to get into the park grew louder. We raced to the entrance as fast as a cheetah chasing a gazelle to get our tickets. Dad, Mom, Sawyer, and I stood waiting for Uncle Casey and Aunt Stephanie who just showed up one second after we did

I drove my mother's car because it was large enough to fit my family in. With all of our belongings, we needed a lot of space and my car would not have done the job. The car ride there took about an hour long, so we listened to a variety of music and played the ABC game. Whenever we arrived at the creek, we immediately jumped in

We’re a mile from the dock, and have no clue how to get the ski right side up. We tried for about 30 minutes to fix it until Nan’ came out of the house and began shouting directions at us. We finally managed to tip it after quite some time. After we got it right side up, Ariana climbed on to try and start it. She managed to get it started, but only one person could fit on it because of all the water in the footwells. Trust me, we tried for quite some time to figure out how to put all three of us on, but we just couldn’t. Since Ariana was already on it, she had to drive the ski back to the dock, while Jamie and I had to swim

After about 45 minutes of intriguing instructions, we finally departed. I hopped into the raft as I felt the cold water seep through my water shoes. Once everyone was secured into the raft and life vests bolted on, we headed down

Well, it turns out my grandpa wanted to some more fishing before we left so him and Marissa, put out a couple of lines. I guess my grandma didn't know where I went so she started going around looking for me. I specifically remember when I was sitting in the truck and watched my grandma walk by yelling my name but made no move to tell her where I was. While I was enjoying my book and my grandma was out searching for me, Marissa caught a fish on my pole. Technically, I could call it my fish but she wouldn't let it fly. After that, we put the fish in a cooler, hooked up, and drove

I stood there wait for the dolphins to push me. WOW!!! I say as the dolphin pushes me out of the glissing water.It felt magical! It was amazing!

There was another time when me and two other people were on a lay down tube and the driver

After we got out of the creek we went back to the fields and was just sliding around in the mud and then I drove the gator Jason was with me and Frankie got on Jason's four wheeler and we raced of course Frankie won by a lot but then we split off and was planning to scare Frankie when he came

When the time came, sadly soon rather than later, we got off the lake. Since we all have red hair accompanied with pale sensitive skin, my brothers and I became burnt worse than the toast in the morning, we would load the dingy on to the trailer and go down the windy road over some hills and back to our lot on the

One day this summer, I was in a white boat with some of my parents’ college friends and their kids on Lake of the Ozarks. There was this tube thing that was basically a couch in the water. It fit four people comfortably, and has Great Big Mabel printed on the side. I was one of the only girls on the boat, so I had to go with the smelly boys. I went with my brother Ryan, and my friends Jedidiah and Aiden.

was a big wave. The wave hit the boat. The boat started to capsize then the next