Social Studies

My name is magenta. I am 21 years of age. I am going to visit most of the deserts. I am going because the deserts are really neat. I am very exited to go. My family is very happy for me that I am going to go.

Memoir

BY: Amelia Nickerson Date: January 9 ,2009

“Wake up already! You're going to be late,” Mom said as she was shaking my whole bed trying to wake me. “You need to get up. It's 7:00 and you need to be there at 8:00.” I had a trip with my basketball team to go to Aquaboggan for the day. The one day I wanted to sleep in I had to get up for a trip, but I really wanted to go have fun with some of my friends. When I was ready to go my mom made sure that I had every thing that I needed. That was a lot. When we got into Newport my mom stopped into Shop n' Save I got some Gatorade and a pack of gum for the way down and back. We also stopped at Dunkin' Donuts, and my mom got all the things that I liked. I especially like the munchkins.

Instead of riding with my mom like other people were riding with. I rode with a friend. It was a long ride down to Aquaboggan, and I was still real tired. My legs were all cramped up because I hadn't stretched in a long time. When we finally got to Aquaboggan we went right into the park because we had all prepaid for the trip. They had set out an area for all of us to leave our stuff. Everyone went and got our bathing-suits on as soon as we got to the park. The team had separated into groups, these are the groups that we stayed in all day. The group that I was in was with Sam Simpson, Taylor Quick ,Emily Paige. Angel and Steve, Taylor's Mom and Dad, followed us to keep an eye on all of us.

The first ride that we went on was a big ballon. and at the top there was a fountain and a seat that you could sit on . The object of the ride was to climb up when holding on to a rope but both the ballon and the rope were wet and hard to hang onto. This was a very tricky thing to do. After that Angel and Steve rented two 2-seated tubes. We used those tubes on almost all the rides. The second ride that we went on was the worst ride that we went on all day. This rides you couldn't use a tube. You just went down on your back. You were told to hold your legs together and cross your arms, for safety reasons but that was hard to do with the speed that we were going at. It felt like we were going 60mph. This was not the greatest ride of the day actually far from it.

The next ride that we went on was the best one. The reason I liked this ride is because we actually could use the tubes and on all of the rides I rode in the back. We went faster if I was in the second seat of the tube. I don't remember the name of it but I remember what It was shaped liked. The ride was almost a full round tube but wasn't. It twisted and turned and we went up on the side of the tube. Everyone liked this ride it was the best ride I thought anyway. I think that everyone else liked this ride too it was fun and it went some what fast. Then after that we went to the wave pool and that was some fun the farther you went back the more of a push that you got thrashing you back and push you under the water every second. The next thing that we did was a water balloon fight we must of used 100 balloon's if not more of them. There was a balloon slingshot type thing that would fling the balloon at the other person. After we had all that fun we had lunch. I had waffle fries which are french fries that are shaped like waffles. I also had a slice of pepperoni pizza which tasted all right but it wasn't the best. For my desert I had a M&M cookie which I saved for the trip back home. For a drink I had a 16oz. cup of Sprite. After about ten minutes we had gone back to rides. We went on the go-carts and I think that the go-carts were the best ride of all. I think that the reason why this ride was the best is because I'd had all ready rode on a go-cart before at my cousins house. I rode on the go-carts more than anything els while I was there. After the go-carts we went on one more water ride and that was one that we used mats that was a lot of fun. But after that Taylor, Sam and Emily had to all leave so I just went and played in that wave pool. Then the rest of the team and I went on the go-carts for the rest of the time that we were there Kylie and I were stopping anybody who came up behind us and it was a lot of fun. I must have gone on that ride 7 times if not more than that.

I only went on maybe one more water ride after I went on the go-carts that day. At about 3:00 or 4:00 we packed up and went home and it took forever but on the way back home I figured out that I had got a sun burn at the park. It hurt so bad . When I got home I put some aloe on the burn I must of put it on a million times. But over all I think that the day at the water park was actually fun. It was probably the most fun day out of the whole summer.