Personal Narrative: My Trip To Mexico

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This March, my family and I took a trip to Mexico for vacation. We did many fun things down there such as; parasailing, went on a boat for a day trip, sail boating, went swimming in the ocean, buggy board, sand volleyball, swam in the pool, walked the beach at night, got henna tattoos, a dread in our hair and went to the club with my brother and Emerson. The sand on my feet, the crashing of the waves, people swimming in the ocean, the smell of sunscreen and the wonderful taste of my flamingo drink; Mexico is my kind of place to be. But the first day in particular sticks out to me the most, the day we went parasailing and sail boating. Waking up in the morning in your soft hotel comforter, gives you a great feeling. Its vacation and you don’t have to worry about anything except for to have fun. I knew that day was going to be a great day. I woke up threw my swim suit on, and rushed to the beach. The hot sand on my feet as I was running to the water. The sand got cooler and much softer as I got to the wet part of the beach. I was standing there just looking at the ocean, it looked ENDLESS. The waves crashing on my calves as I was walking in, it was cold at first but that didn’t really matter because It was the ocean. I was squeezing my phone very tight so I wouldn’t drop it, I was squeezing it so hard im pretty sure my hand was turning purple! …show more content…
I had no idea what was going to happen, how was that black rope going to hold a lady like that! I had seen pictures of people on Facebook doing it but I never saw it in person. The boat started to take off into the ocean; within seconds the lady had been lifted off the beach and taken into the sky above the ocean. It was cool to watch, but I knew my mother would NEVER let me do that because of how dangerous it

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