The sunrise coming up over the clear blue ocean is mesmerizing. Sitting on the top deck of the boat, I stare at the masterpiece before me. My grandparents and I are eating breakfast when an elderly woman sits at the table beside us. We waited for someone to join her, but no one did. My grandma, being the social type, starts to make conversation with the elderly woman.
“Pretty sunrise isn’t it,” my grandma ask.
“It sure is lovely,” the elderly woman said.
“Where you from?” my grandma said.
“I don’t really have a set home,” she said. “I go wherever the boat takes me.”
“How many cruises you been on?” my grandma said.
“I done lost count,” she said. “Each summer I spend about two weeks on a cruise. I have been almost everywhere. I have been on a cruise to Italy, Rome; Paris, France; The Bahamas, Nassau; and many other places. I have been to each one so many times, I stay on the boat instead of stepping out on the islands. It’s so relaxing up here; however, it does get boring at times. Yeah, I’ve been living easy in my old age; traveling on boats is was makes it so. I …show more content…
My grandma and the old woman continue talking about places to go and what time during the year to go to them. Each place she would say is beautiful, but something is always wrong with the weather. The lady then goes off into a speech about how global warming is changing how people vacation. Soon, cruises won’t be available because of the multiple hurricanes that will happen. The lady said that is the main reason she’s on them so much now. She knows soon she will have to find a place to settle down. Then, she starts talking about the weather in America. No matter where she would live, the weather would always be a problem. On the East Coast with hurricanes; on the West Coast with earthquakes. Up North with the blizzards and Midwest with the tornados. She then makes a statement of how, lord willing, she will underground before cruises are
“Pretty sunrise isn’t it,” my grandma ask.
“It sure is lovely,” the elderly woman said.
“Where you from?” my grandma said.
“I don’t really have a set home,” she said. “I go wherever the boat takes me.”
“How many cruises you been on?” my grandma said.
“I done lost count,” she said. “Each summer I spend about two weeks on a cruise. I have been almost everywhere. I have been on a cruise to Italy, Rome; Paris, France; The Bahamas, Nassau; and many other places. I have been to each one so many times, I stay on the boat instead of stepping out on the islands. It’s so relaxing up here; however, it does get boring at times. Yeah, I’ve been living easy in my old age; traveling on boats is was makes it so. I …show more content…
My grandma and the old woman continue talking about places to go and what time during the year to go to them. Each place she would say is beautiful, but something is always wrong with the weather. The lady then goes off into a speech about how global warming is changing how people vacation. Soon, cruises won’t be available because of the multiple hurricanes that will happen. The lady said that is the main reason she’s on them so much now. She knows soon she will have to find a place to settle down. Then, she starts talking about the weather in America. No matter where she would live, the weather would always be a problem. On the East Coast with hurricanes; on the West Coast with earthquakes. Up North with the blizzards and Midwest with the tornados. She then makes a statement of how, lord willing, she will underground before cruises are