Personal Narrative: Gambling

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“Is this just a way for you to go gambling,” I asked. “no, well kind of, we’re going to Las Vegas because we didn’t really do anything special for mystique’s birthday,” my dad said. I couldn’t believe I was actually going somewhere fun for once. “We’re going to the hotel Circus Circus for a little 2 day 1-night vacation,” my dad said.
4 days later I woke up at 7:00 am. My oldest sister came over and we got into the car. When we got on the freeway I said, “we forgot the Capri Suns!” The car ride was so boring. We were in the car for 5 hours and my oldest and 4th oldest sister were asleep the whole time. We made one stop at jack in the box.
The first day at the hotel was pretty fun except for the checking in part. There were so many people,

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