memorable vacation

Last year I went to Greece with my father. We had planned the trip before the school year started and we went in July. When the day came for us to leave I was both excited and nervous, I had never been out of the country before then. We drove to Orlando and waited to board our plane to New York. After the somewhat peaceful flight, we experienced the annoyance of the busy New York airport. We had to wait four hours for our connecting flight to London; the wait was painful because I was so excited to get there. Once we got on the flight I was getting extremely excited, but my excitement was short lived. The flight was extremely bumpy the entire six hour flight to London. Then the final flight to Athens was a short and nice flight to end the day of flying. When we got of the flight we found our tour guide and with some other people on the tour, we got through customs very fast. The next two days we had free time in Athens and we enjoyed the many distinct features of a foreign country. The next day we went to see the Parthenon, which is the ancient temple of Athena. The Parthenon sits on a small mountains and the climb up to it was harder than I first thought. The way we climbed up we could see all of Athens and smell the dirt from the gravel under and around the Parthenon. It was a magnificent sight and the fact that it was built over three thousand years ago makes it even more magnificent. The next day we packed up our stuff from the hotel and when to the city next to Athens for their docks. Then we boarded a cruise ship and the boat set sail for the islands of Greece. Of the Islands we went to I liked Santorini and Crete the best. In Santorini we saw the volcano that formed Santorini and went to see the city that was on the island. The city was very strange because the houses were built on top of each other on the side of the cliff. We then took a cable car back down to the boat and that was scary considering I’m very afraid of heights but I was told that the view on the way down was breathtaking. Then we went to Crete and saw the city of Knossos, which is the oldest city in Greece and her islands. The islands of Greece were my favorite part of my trip there, but there are two more weeks left in my trip there.

My First Hockey Game

Experiencing a professional game, for the first time, is one of the most exciting experiences while young. When I was ten years old, I went to my first hockey game. I had been playing roller hockey at skate station, for a year before the game, so my dad decided that I should see a professional hockey game. He found a game on my birthday and we went down to Tampa bay to see the Tampa Bay Lightning play the Philadelphia Flyers, my dad’s hometown. The game was at 7:30 pm so we left Gainesville at around 3:00 pm. We arrived in Tampa at around 7pm and we discovered that the game has a lot of activities going on before the game. We went to get our seats at a little bit after we got there, our seats were on the first row behind the goalie net. As we were looking for something to eat in the stadium, we saw a store with Lightning jersey so my dad brought me one. We got back to our seats right as the game started, and then right of the back Philadelphia scored right in front of me. The score was one to zero and it was setting up to be a great game. At the end of the first period, the score was two to two. During the intermission my dad and I decided to look around the rink and see what they had in it. To our surprise, we discovered an Outback Steakhouse in the stadium and got a Blooming Onion. At the start of the second period Philadelphia scored within the first minute again. They scored again right after the first one too. Down by too the Tampa Bay fans started to cheer harder and harder for the Lighting to score and become wining. By the end of the second period they had done it and the score was four to four. This intermission I decided to stay in my seat and watch them clean the ice. I also found out that they had a game going on the ice. The game was that if you can make a shot from the midline although the person missed they still gave him something for trying. Then the Third period started and wasn’t as exciting as the first two because there were no goals. But, as I soon, found out if a game is tied then it goes into a shootout, which is very exciting. Philadelphia won the shootout decisively winning it three goals to none. Even though Tampa Bay lost I will never forget my first professional hockey game.

A bad memory

Have you ever been lost in a city a thousand of miles away from your home with no one there to comfort you, protect you or help you find your way to safety? It is the worst feeling in the world. When I was eight, I went to visit my cousins in New Jersey, which I did every summer. I got lost in Margate, their hometown. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was at the beach, two blocks away from my cousin’s house, and I overheard my aunt, mom, and my aunt’s friend talking about how my cousins went back to their house. I got the idea into my head that I would try and catch up with them. I walked for about fifteen minutes. I started to feel that I had missed their house and started to get scared. I kept walking. I’m not really sure why I didn’t turn around and go back to the beach. I ran into an old man watering his lawn. I asked him if he knew where my cousins lived. When he didn’t answer me and then just went back into his house. Then I started to get really scared and lonely. Looking back on it, I’m not sure if there was a man there or if I just envisioned person that looked like my grandfather, who is a very warm and comforting presence for me. I decided that it was time to turn around and go back toward the beach. I didn’t want to pass by the old man’s house again so I went a couple blocks to the right then back toward the beach. When I got closer there, I realized that even if I got to the beach I wouldn’t know which section of the beach we were at. I was about to go to the lifeguard of the beach section I was on, but I heard someone calling my name. As I turned around, I saw my aunt’s friend and I suddenly burst into tears and all the loneliness I was feeling suddenly vanished as I embraced her. Even though now I don’t even remember her name, I still think about what would’ve happen if she hadn’t have missed her bus home to try and find me. She must have called my parents, but I was so happy I don’t remember what was going on, but all I saw was my mom running towards me. I gave her and my dad a huge hug. I got into my aunt’s car and they took me to her house. I heard my mom say to me, “I’m never letting you out of my sight again.”