Griffin Punkie Short Story

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One year a tall dark haired boy with nice shoes named griffin Punkie went on vacation with some of his friends. They also went there with the families families in a city with enormous skyscrapers. they saw lots of museums like the Smithsonian white house and While they were there they saw so many different amazing monuments. and afterward when they were touring the place they were free to wander around for about 30min. one of griffin's friends had wandered off his name was Clayton waller. while they were searching for him they saw so much more of the museum eventually they found him, but he was never really lost he was just going to the restroom. and when he went back they were gone, but finally they rounded up everyone and left. while they …show more content…
their next game was hard and kind of unfair the kids, they were playing looked like they were in high school. They weren't but it was a close game and ended up winning. they had two games left including the championship. the first game had a really rough start and were down by 5 but they came back and won. then in the championship there was one kid that was 6 feet tall or more. they had trouble guarding him, luckily he could not shoot very well. so they ended up winning, but sadly there was no reward. Then while they were there they Visited the holocaust museum. they saw all the shoes that were from when they were killing the parents in the gas chambers. then he saw so many more artifacts after that they were heading to the car. to go back to the dorms and when they returned there they had really nice rooms and a huge outdoor and indoor swimming pool after swimming for a while they went to their rooms and the rooms where the boys were sleeping had air conditioning and the girls did not and while they were there they made lots of new friends from all over the world one of the boys was from England and was visiting his grandparents and touring America for a week or

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