Niagara Dam Narrative

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During the Christmas/Winter break of my seventh grade me and my entire family went to Niagara Falls to see the falls and for my parents, to go the the casino there (Casino Rama). We visited the falls and went on a boat to get a closer look. It was still beautiful but didn’t give me that,”Wow!”, since I’ve been there many times. Later that day my parents, aunt, uncle, and their friends went in the casino. My older cousins didn’t want to go and my sister, so we just shopped around instead. We didn’t really buy much and weren't a ton of stores there. It was uninteresting and I was almost half asleep until we saw a place called, “The Pepper Palace”. My family loved spicy foods and loved to cook, so we decided to take a look. There were tons of different hot sauces to …show more content…
They told us that it was 3.5 million scoville units, and that we would have to sign a waiver to just try a drop. It looked cool because it was in the shape of an actual flashbang. It contained jalapeno, habanero, ghost pepper, and carolina reapers. I wanted to be cool in front of my older cousins and I was curious to so how it would feel like, even though I was frightened of what would happen. It reminded me of those Youtube videos I’ve seen of people try extreme hot sauces and peppers, this startled me. So three of us ended up trying it, my two cousins and myself, everyone else chickened out. At first we thought,” Hey this isn’t that bad!”, but five minutes later me and one of my cousins were sweating like pigs and were tearing up, while my other cousin didn’t even notice much of the heat. There was and ice-cream place next door, and we went there to help with the burn, but I was much help and I couldn’t enjoy the delicious flavors because I could only feel my tongue on fire. I was constantly panting to try to get some cool air into my mouth, and trying to fanning the outside of my mouth my with hand to perhaps get some more cool air into my

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