WRITE ON! My First Time I Ever Went to Florida

by Reygan McCanna, English 7, Mrs. Didrikson

So this is the story of the time I went to Florida. I woke up at 5:00 in the morning. When you are nine years old it is very hard to get up in the morning, but that one fine August morning I got up in a heartbeat. It was the longest trip to Grand Forks in my life, and of course I slept on the way there because I was exhausted. When we were at the airport I had to wait 30 minutes, but it felt like 5 hours.

When we got on the plane I was not scared at all, but I acted scared so I could hold someone's hand. It wasn't my dad's hand (my dad was sitting a...