Narrative Essay On My First Trip To Lebanon

On May 31, 2009, I went on my first vacation to Lebanon. It was an amazing experience. I got a chance to make new adventures, meet new people who made an influence on me life, learn different customs, ride on an airplane for the first time, and visit big cities like Athens Greece and Beirut Lebanon. I had the time of my life! It was an experience that I wouldn’t trade for anything else. I wish I could go back into time and re-do it! Going on this trip was the first time I had to ride on an airplane. I had to board on a 12 hour international flight, which was a little exciting. My trip was from Toronto, Ontario to Athens, Greece for a three hour layover and then to Beirut, Lebanon. After checking in my luggages, I had to go through a security screening. This was probably the scariest part from my trip because I had change in my pocket, and so when I went through the metal detector, it started going beep, beep, beep for about 10 seconds. One security guard started patting me down and checking me out to see if I had any weapons on me while another guard was watching. After they found my change they let …show more content…
I went shopping, toured Beirut and also went to probably the best theme park ever. I went on go karts and raced against my dad, uncle, brothers and sister. I also went on the bumper cars. They were soo much fun! The best part was bumping into other cars and getting bumped myself. During the evenings, my family and I would go and buy fireworks and set them off. Usually the adults would set them off while I watched, but I felt like setting one off one night, so I did. It was soo scary! I set it off, and then threw it far into a field. It made a huge, loud ka-boom sound. My days flew by with excitement and laughter. My last trip was six years ago, and hopefully I will be going on another one this summer coming up. I am looking forward to the exciting, endless summer days filled with laughter and