Personal Narrative: My Trip To New Jersey

“I can't wait until I get to leave for my vacation tonight!” I exclaimed. It was the summer of 2014 and I was counting down the hours until I left on my Cooperstown vacation. I was going to visit New Jersey, New York City, and Pittsburgh on my way to Cooperstown. My parents couldn’t get me to Pittsburgh, so, I went with one of my teammates. We left Chicago on Monday June 30th, 2014, and we arrived in Cooperstown on Saturday July 4th, 2014. We arrived in New Jersey the next morning where we would stay two nights. On the second day in New Jersey, we took a train from New Jersey to New York City. New York City was a really cool place to see with all the high-rises. We saw the Statue of Liberty, the 9/11 Memorial, the New World Trade Center, and Times Square. When we got back to New Jersey, we went to Harold’s Deli. The next day, we started to drive to Pittsburgh to see a Pirates game with the rest of my team. The Pirates lost 10 to 2, but I caught a baseball while the Arizona Diamondbacks took batting practice, and got an Andrew McCutchin shirt. The next day, we drove to Cooperstown, NY, where I met back up with my family. I met up with my family at giant mansion that most of the families were …show more content…
We were so pumped for that game that their drummers, that had played the drums while watching the game, stopped. Their whole team was depleted. There was no doubt that they we were going to win. Sadly, the game was postponed until the next morning. Since it was an early game, the employees wouldn’t make us breakfast. So, some of the moms from our team brought pop-tarts, fruits, veggies, and some water. Also since the game was early, we weren't able to play music to get us as pumped up as we were the night before. We lost the game 8 to 3, but we also made some good friends along the way. Later, we played our one playoff game. We lost to a team from southern