Cameron - "Florida Story"

"Florida Story"

It was dark. “BUMP” My eyes shot wide open. We had landed. I was so excited I almost jumped out of my seat, but luckily I didn’t. It was my first time to go to Florida, and I knew it was going to be the best time of my life.

When we were getting off the plane, I looked out the door; the only thing I saw was the best spring brake of my life. “Wait” I just realized that it was even harder to breathe out hear then on the plane, I asked my dad and he explained, “It is more humid here then at home”. I said “wow that’s strange”. Then I went back to my thoughts. I could not wait to see our new house. I have only seen pictures of the house so I really wanted to see it for real. When we got out of the airport, we got a taxi and were driven to our storage area. When we got there. We got our car and boat then we drove for an hour to Everglades City. I loved looking out the car window and feeling the warm night air on my face compared to the Jackson Hole chill. When we got to Everglades city, it was around ten o’clock. We got out of the car and I was wondering where our house was. I asked my parents and they said, “It is on that island in the middle of the river”. I was so amazed by how cool it was, I could not speak. After we got onto the island, I saw that there was a circle of houses. In the middle there was a swimming pool. I could not believe it. It was like I could never imagine. The next morning I woke up. I jumped out of bed and quietly without waking my sister ran out the door, down the stairs, and onto the dock were my dad was fishing. When I got to my dad, I saw instantly in the water was a stingray. It jumped out of the water and then disappeared. I said to my dad, “did you see that? My dad said, “what?”
“Nothing” I said. After my mom and sister woke up, we got into the boat and we went down the calm river. We got into the key and went to a little beach. We hung out there. When we left. It was getting late so we zoomed back to the house. On the last day of our awesome spring brake we went swimming in the pool on the island, we went fishing, we looked at alligators, and I swear I saw about eighty of them. Then we went to reptile place. I got to hold baby alligators and snakes. I even got to hold an anaconda. The baby alligators were very calm compared to the adult alligators. That surprised me. The next morning we packed up and went back home. On the plane I was very bummed, but I still thought about all the exciting things we experienced.
~By: Cameron~