I never would imagine that being dragged somewhere by one of my friends would result in one of the most enjoyable days of my entire life. It was May 31, the first Wednesday after school ended when all my friends arranged to go to the Centennial Quarry. I had never been there before and was very anxious. I didn’t want to come because I don’t like trying new things. Eventually, my friends’ nagging won out and I asked my father to drive me there, barely three minutes away from my house. I thought where I was going was basically a large swimming pool, but I was in for a huge surprise.
As I was walking up to the desk to pay, my dad drove away. After I paid my six dollars to get in, I tried to walk in when somebody sitting on a chair requested to …show more content…
This time, keeping myself up was much easier. I almost kept up with everybody as we all swam to the concrete stairs. Even the second time around, I was unbelievably tired but decided to power through the steep, plentiful stairs. After even more strenuous activity and aforementioned embarassment, I finally reached our chairs. I sat down, took a swig of my now disgustingly warm water bottle and caught my breath.
By the time about half of the water bottle was gone, I decided it would be a good idea to check to make sure nobody stole anything. I looked down at the sand. Sand encrusted flip flops, check. I then opened by bag and fished through it. Ten dollars, check. Headphones, check. Phone, check. Good, nobody decided to steal anything. After that, I took the cap off of my warm water and threw it at one of my friends where it hilariously exploded all over them. Since I no longer had anything to drink, I went up to the counter where they sold drinks and food.
I began to order, “Can I have a blue Powerade and a bag of Sour Patch Kids?”
“Uhm, yeah. That's gonna be, four dollars,” the lady at the counter answered.
I gasped at the exorbitant price, “What?”
“Six dollars,” she …show more content…
I quickly followed, running off the board, jumping as high as I could. I remembered to plug my nose before I sunk down around 10 feet under the water. After paddling upwards, I eventually resurfaced to realize that everybody was watching me.
“We still aren’t completely sure you can swim.” Evan joked
“Well I can, so stop.” I embarassingly replied
“We’re swimming over there,” Dylan B. explained as he pointed to something over 100 feet away.
“Okay, let’s see if I can swim.” I teased
We all started swimming toward the Saturn, a round raft with a ring around the middle. Suddenly, I wasn’t slower than everybody else. I was actually faster than a couple of people. After about five minutes of strong swimming later, we reached the Saturn. It was unlike any raft I had ever seen before. There was a ring around it that was parallel to the water with handles for you to pull yourself up with. Inside this ring was a hemisphere that had matching handles. We all tried to pull ourselves up with only a few out of the five of us succeeded. I was the second on. Dylan B. and I helped everybody else up and leaned back to relax when we heart a whistle
As I was walking up to the desk to pay, my dad drove away. After I paid my six dollars to get in, I tried to walk in when somebody sitting on a chair requested to …show more content…
This time, keeping myself up was much easier. I almost kept up with everybody as we all swam to the concrete stairs. Even the second time around, I was unbelievably tired but decided to power through the steep, plentiful stairs. After even more strenuous activity and aforementioned embarassment, I finally reached our chairs. I sat down, took a swig of my now disgustingly warm water bottle and caught my breath.
By the time about half of the water bottle was gone, I decided it would be a good idea to check to make sure nobody stole anything. I looked down at the sand. Sand encrusted flip flops, check. I then opened by bag and fished through it. Ten dollars, check. Headphones, check. Phone, check. Good, nobody decided to steal anything. After that, I took the cap off of my warm water and threw it at one of my friends where it hilariously exploded all over them. Since I no longer had anything to drink, I went up to the counter where they sold drinks and food.
I began to order, “Can I have a blue Powerade and a bag of Sour Patch Kids?”
“Uhm, yeah. That's gonna be, four dollars,” the lady at the counter answered.
I gasped at the exorbitant price, “What?”
“Six dollars,” she …show more content…
I quickly followed, running off the board, jumping as high as I could. I remembered to plug my nose before I sunk down around 10 feet under the water. After paddling upwards, I eventually resurfaced to realize that everybody was watching me.
“We still aren’t completely sure you can swim.” Evan joked
“Well I can, so stop.” I embarassingly replied
“We’re swimming over there,” Dylan B. explained as he pointed to something over 100 feet away.
“Okay, let’s see if I can swim.” I teased
We all started swimming toward the Saturn, a round raft with a ring around the middle. Suddenly, I wasn’t slower than everybody else. I was actually faster than a couple of people. After about five minutes of strong swimming later, we reached the Saturn. It was unlike any raft I had ever seen before. There was a ring around it that was parallel to the water with handles for you to pull yourself up with. Inside this ring was a hemisphere that had matching handles. We all tried to pull ourselves up with only a few out of the five of us succeeded. I was the second on. Dylan B. and I helped everybody else up and leaned back to relax when we heart a whistle