Our nice family vacation

One day my family decided to go on a trip to Florida. The day of the trip we got up at three AM. We drove to the Oakland airport. We were going to Chicago before we went to Florida. Our airplane was on time. After we stayed at a beach we were going on a cruise to some islands. After that we would go to the Space Center.

We took an airplane to Florida and drove a rental car to Sanibel Island. The first thing we did was put the luggage we needed in our hotel room. Next, we went down to the beach. The sand was so nice. It was like chalk that you would put on a baseball field. There were so many shells that you couldn’t even dig to the bottom of them. The only annoying thing was these bugs called no see em’s. They were so small that you couldn’t even see them [that explains their name], and then we stuck are feet in the water. It was so warm.

After we went to the beach, we went to the store and bought some food. The store had pretty parrots. We got taquitos and ice cream bars. Then we went to our room and got into our swim suits and went into the spa and the pool while my dad cooked the food. When we were done swimming we went to our room and ate our food. Then we got in our pajamas and went to bed.

The next morning we went to breakfast. There was fruit, eggs, waffles toast, sweet rolls, cereal, and lots of other good breakfast. I made a waffle three times because the first one was burnt because my dad burnt it, the second one I made soggy, and the third one my mom made just right. Then went down to the beach We collected lots of shells. My brother caught a crab and put it down my dress. Then We went back to our room changed into our swim suits and swam in the ocean. Then we saw tiny fish and the amazing thing was dolphins swimming about 20 feet from us. Then we rented some bikes and rode to a light house with a nice beach. My mom and I saw a turtle digging a nest. The pesky ants kept biting me and it hurt.

The next thing I did was drive to Fort Lauderdale. On the way we stopped and swam at a beach in Naples. It was really nice. I saw a pelican and some flying fish. I was surprised that the pelican didn’t try to eat them. Then my mom went out deep on our surf board mattress and I got freaked out. She took me where I could stand and took my brother Corey out deep and watched the flying fish with him. All of the sudden it started pouring rain. We tried to dry of a little, but we couldn’t that well so when it stopped raining we walked around a little. After we walked around we got in the car and tried to drive to the next hotel. It was so rainy you could barely see. Someone even hit an alligator. Then I had to go the bathroom so we got to a bathroom and when you ran in you still got soaked. After I stood under the hair dryer for a minute ran and got in the car. Then we got into a cab and went to the hotel. I changed right away. We were really hungry so we ran next door to taco bell. It wasn’t raining that much. I ate two soft tacos and some nachos. Again it started raining hard. A lady came in and her butt was soaked. It looked liked she peed her pants. We went back to our room got in our pajamas I dried my hair and went to bed. For the next day I would get on the ship.

The next day when I woke up I was exited. I got dressed and went and ate breakfast. I had a couple donuts, fruit loops and biscuits with gravy. When I was going up stairs, I saw chicken bones. I new they were chicken bones because they were skinny. I went and changed out of my swim suit and went to my grandmas room and said hi then I went back to my room and watched TV. I was watching a show called “Myth Busters.” Then my brothers came in the room and watched it too. When my dad came in the hotel room he got ready to go on the ship. My mom came and asked me to knock on my grandma’s door and tell her we were going to go to get on the shuttle to go to the ship because we were ready to go to the ship. When we waited in line to get on the bus the people and all their luggage filled up the bus. So we went on the next bus. We had to wait in a long line to get on the ship.

When we finally got on the ship we did activities. The ship was huge! It had so many things to do. There was something called a kids club. Connor was in a different kids club then Corey and I because we are older then him. Me and Corey made a shark tooth necklace and a car and dissected a squid and played video games. We also played mini golf and basketball. I liked playing mini golf the best!

I liked our room. It had a TV! Corey and I even got to sleep on a bunk bed! We had a balcony too, but the annoying thin was you could see other peoples balcony’s. My grandma was next door to me. That was nice. I liked swimming. It was very wavy it was fun. I went in the spa too. It was hot.

The dinner was so good. I liked the desserts the best. My grandpa ordered something called the princess love boat every night. It was chocolate with raspberry sauce and whipped cream to put on it. I had banana ice cream and it tasted so much like a frozen banana. For my dinner I loved the lobster and the king crab was good too. I ate the lobster before the waiter even brought the butter. For the appetizer I liked the soup. It was cold and they sometimes they brought it in a cup. There was pumpkin soup and it tasted gross.

One of the islands I went to was Princess Cays in the Bahamas. We had to take a lifeboat to the island. (We weren’t drowning.) It had warm sand and we only stayed at that one beach that our ship owned. The island had food too, but it wasn’t ready until 11:30 A.M. when it was ready I had to wait in a long line. Since my papa was waiting around there he got in line first. There was this worker that asked me if I wanted some cheese and I told him I didn’t and he just put it on my plate anyway. The cheese looked weird to it was colored cheese. There were lots of good deserts. It had really good snorkeling. There were these really big and ugly scaly fish. They were so freaky. There were parrot fish which were blue and yellow and big. Also there were little fish that were yellow with a black stripe.

I also went to St. Martin. I went to a beach that had dirty water. I did not know what its name was. I fed a big group of fish bread. They all swarmed around you. Some fish touched my leg. We didn’t stay at that beach long. The next beach I went to in St. Martin was Orient Beach. It had beautiful warm water it had a water trampoline and a banana boat, but you had to pay. I wanted to stay longer, but we had to go to a beach that had a airport next and we didn’t see any airplanes. That beach had ladies with no shirts on. It was too wavy so I didn’t snorkel.

The next island we cruised to was St. Thomas. We went to two beaches. We had to rent a jeep that had only four seats and I had to share. I was squished. I went to a really beautiful beach called Coki Beach. There were rocks to play on. It was a really good snorkeling. There was a jellyfish so I was scared. I also went to Magens Bay. We saw a barracuda. I kept diving into the warm water. We couldn’t feed the fish because the barracuda.

Next we went to Grand Turk. It was all messed up because of the hurricane. It even had shingles in the water. It wasn’t really good snorkeling because the reef was messed up I even saw a puffer fish. We also saw a big blue fish. There was also a big pool. There was also a dock that I walked on.

The last two days of vacation we went to the Space Center. The first thing we did was take a bus to the launch pad. The astronauts were going to go up into space to fix the Hubble Telescope, but the main computer wasn’t working right so they couldn’t locate it and they had to wait until February to go up into space. We saw two shuttles on the pad. When we were on the bus we saw 12 alligators and even a manatee went on a bus and went and saw the parts that they are making for the space station. That was so cool it was real. We even went were retired rockets [not shuttles] were. There was some water that was sprouting up and my brothers played in it and got soaked. They were uncomfortable. After that we saw an astronaut. He rode with the first American woman Sally Ride. His name was John McBride. We took a picture with him. He used to have red hair and he said to Corey I used to have hair like that. We saw two IMAX films. They were in 3d. The first one I liked the best. Soon they will retire the shuttles. The only reason that shuttles were made were to carry space station parts to space. Soon they want to go to the moon. They want to try to go to Mars in about 20 years.

I really enjoyed my trip. I wish it never ended. I had such a nice vacation. It was really fun and great.