Summer Vacation

This summer, I did many things. I took a day trip up to Michigan a couple times with relatives, one to Saugatuck, one to St. Joseph. I also built a zombie survival crate. On the subject of zombies, I also bought Call of Duty: Black Ops and COD: Black Ops 2, which have a game mode called Zombies. Finally, I slept, a lot, except around the 4th of July, because I like fireworks. The best part of my summer is purchasing my airsoft AK-47 and understanding the sciences in airsoft.

In March of 2014, my family and I went on a vacation to Naples, Florida. One year before this, a part of my extended family moved to Naples. They moved there because of my uncle, Cory Briscoe. Cory needed 2 to 3 years of additional schooling to get a degree in Nurse Anesthesia. Thinking of going to Florida had been fantastic thus for unbelievable. Our plan was to go the week of spring break to get away from the cold weather in Idaho. Quickly the first day of spring break came, and we were off to the airport.

"I never got nothing I wanted in my whole life. Now, I’m go’n get a whole day?" pg. 170

As my last class came to an end on that Thursday I could feel the excitement growing in me; spring break was starting! As I walked briskly to my truck I could feel a huge smile growing across my face. In less than twenty four hours I’d be on the road to granny and gripes in Louisiana with my best friend and I couldn’t be more excited! I had never really been out of Missouri unless it was military related and even then we didn’t get to adventure like I had always wanted to do. I’ve always loved driving and seeing new things in Missouri but now I get to drive through different states and see all of the beautiful scenery in Arkansas and Louisiana.

Spring break is supposed to be a great time from the second it begins, until the second it ends. Now there is always that boring time it takes to get to wherever you may be going no matter how far that may be it is always the least fun of the entire vacation. My last spring break’s car ride happened to be the least fun by far of any trip I have taken up to this point in my life.

The most interesting thing I did over the summer was going to ohio to meet with family. The reasoning is because when there we didn’t get to stay inside. When we go to ohio over the summer we have to stay outside and camp and have to stay outside all day and all night. I always have my own tent on the other side of the house away from the pond so that i can actually sleep. The reason for sleeping away from the pond is that there are frogs that make noise all night and can get really annoying.

Over the summer I had a lot of fun, maybe the most I`ve ever had. I spend a large amount of my summer at my grandparent’s lake house. My grandparents lake house is huge, a mansion compared to my house. At their lake house they have a lot of fun stuff, my personal favorite are the jet skis. I didn’t get to ride them that much, but when I did it was a blast! My days at the lake house were the highlight of my summer, but I did a lot of other fun stuff too!

As each day of summer was flying by, I got so excited to work on my summer agenda. My family and I had so many things planned out. I got to choose where to go. I wanted to choose somewhere I could enjoy my time with my family. A congregating time for my family and consuming so much time so that it was a family wholeness

Family vacations are something of the norm for my summer life. My family takes a trip every year to some place new. This past summer, we drove down to New Orleans. My mom, my dad, my best friend, and I, clambered into Stanley, our 1999 Teal Minivan, over boxes of fattening snackies, coolers of unhealthy beverages, Mac laptops and our pillow pets. We were ready to get Jazzy in the City of Jazz.

During my Summer Break, I went to Tennessee with my family, brother in law, and my brother in laws and sister’s friend John. We decided to stop at a hotel for the night, in Kentucky, and to drive the rest of the way in the morning.

My summer was different than my typical normal summers. I spent my time going from Yankton, South Dakota to Winner, South Dakota. My parents had a busy schedule this summer so they decided to send me with some family. Although my aunt wanted me to be there, she always sent me home after a week or two. It wasn’t enough time to really do anything.

This summer might have been the craziest, weirdest, and funnest summer ever. So first summer started off boring then mom came into my room and asked “you wanna go down to Arizona and visit your aunt and uncle for a week?” I said yes then about a week later we ended up going to Arizona!

During the summer break of 2013 I was an eager soon to be a sophomore. Even with summer break, I faced a stressful combination of summer school, Crew soccer club practice, and homework. To cope with them, I unknowingly turned to unhealthy eating and sleep deprivation.

Eating only liquids for a week was the worst thing. The pain and agony. Watching and smelling the solid foods that other people could eat was torture to me.

My summer break wasn’t nearly as fascinating as some of my friends’ were. Many of my friends traveled out of Indiana and went to water parks, beaches, or went camping. I didn’t even leave Indiana. But I’d have to say that I did a few things over summer that I won’t ever forget. On the last day of summer, I realized that what I did over those eight-and-a-half weeks were things I would be able to tell as stories to my kids. My summer break wasn’t fantastic, but it sure was exciting.