“Oh no!” Grace gasped in horror, realizing what had happened upon seeing the familiar shape and size of the wooden crate. “I saw those floating away from our boat earlier in the storm. The wind must have broken the compartment and knocked the crates out when we were being jerked back and forth earlier.”
“Well, we’ll just have to work with what we’ve got,” Chris said in his usual abnormally positive tone. “Plus, we can’t be that far away from land. We were set to arrive in San Francisco today. I’m sure that there are also search parties looking for us. I mean, the captain of the cruise ship knows by now that one of the lifeboats is missing, and they have probably figured out that you two are on it.”
As if on cue, a low humming sound entered …show more content…
He brusquely jumped up off his seat and walked over to the black bag. Peering into it, he poked around until he found exactly what he was looking for. Chris pulled from the bag a small gray compass. “This my friends, is they key to us finding land,” said Chris dramatically. “The cruise ship was heading east, and we were set to continue in that direction until we arrived in California,” said Chris with a smile. “So as long as we head east, we’ll eventually hit land.” He placed the compass in the palm of his hand, and then uncharacteristically barked at Grace and Ali to start rowing the lifeboat in the direction that the compass was telling him was east. As soon as he was sure they had a good start in the right direction, Chris set the compass down, and began to paddle alongside the girls. The boat lurched forward with great speed at first, Chris explaining to the girls that he used to row in college, but quickly lost its speed as Chris began to …show more content…
“Chris, it’s land! I think I see land!”
“Are you sure Ali?” asked Grace hesitantly, squinting her eyes in disbelief. “I don’t see anything.” But sure enough, after another half-hour of cycling the oars endlessly through the water, and propelling the lifeboat through the waves, Grace and Chris could make out the distant green strip of land jutting into the relatively calm waters of the evening. As the sun set and the sky changed from blue, to purple, to pink, and then back to blue again, Chris and the two sisters never stopped rowing, the strip of land a prize that they were racing to
“Well, we’ll just have to work with what we’ve got,” Chris said in his usual abnormally positive tone. “Plus, we can’t be that far away from land. We were set to arrive in San Francisco today. I’m sure that there are also search parties looking for us. I mean, the captain of the cruise ship knows by now that one of the lifeboats is missing, and they have probably figured out that you two are on it.”
As if on cue, a low humming sound entered …show more content…
He brusquely jumped up off his seat and walked over to the black bag. Peering into it, he poked around until he found exactly what he was looking for. Chris pulled from the bag a small gray compass. “This my friends, is they key to us finding land,” said Chris dramatically. “The cruise ship was heading east, and we were set to continue in that direction until we arrived in California,” said Chris with a smile. “So as long as we head east, we’ll eventually hit land.” He placed the compass in the palm of his hand, and then uncharacteristically barked at Grace and Ali to start rowing the lifeboat in the direction that the compass was telling him was east. As soon as he was sure they had a good start in the right direction, Chris set the compass down, and began to paddle alongside the girls. The boat lurched forward with great speed at first, Chris explaining to the girls that he used to row in college, but quickly lost its speed as Chris began to …show more content…
“Chris, it’s land! I think I see land!”
“Are you sure Ali?” asked Grace hesitantly, squinting her eyes in disbelief. “I don’t see anything.” But sure enough, after another half-hour of cycling the oars endlessly through the water, and propelling the lifeboat through the waves, Grace and Chris could make out the distant green strip of land jutting into the relatively calm waters of the evening. As the sun set and the sky changed from blue, to purple, to pink, and then back to blue again, Chris and the two sisters never stopped rowing, the strip of land a prize that they were racing to