Memorial Day Research Paper
During the Memorial Day Weekend, my family decided to go on a church trip to
the Niagara Falls. I kind of wanted to go, but my mom insisted that I should stay
home with my grandparents to practice piano for my upcoming competition. In the
end, she left the decision to me. If go on trip, read A. If stay home, read B.
Choosing fun over work, I pressured them to let me go, and they reluctantly said
yes. We went by tour bus; on the way, I played games on my phone, talked with
siblings and church friends, prayed, and sang hymns. We stayed in a Hampton Inn,
and enjoyed a good night s sleep after an exhausting day of touring different towns
and eating different foods. The next day, we set out to the falls themselves. The
adults let us choose if... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Upon stepping in the boat, they handed us blue ponchos. The floor was metal, with
thin, almond shaped bumps on them, forming many little crosses. There were
some rooms where you could watch through the windows and not get wet.
Thinking that was pretty boring, I chose staying outside, where blue chairs lined
the walls of the rooms inside. I chose a seat on the starboard side, quite close to the
metal railings that bordered the walls of the boat. My little sister sat next to me,
her smiling face bursting with excitement. I felt a little jerk, and the boat started
moving and the thundering falls grew closer. Though I was warned not to stand
up, I got excited and rushed out of my seat, eager to see the falls. My hands
grabbed the railings as I watched the roaring waters go around in a horseshoe
shape. After a while. the sky darkened, lightning flashed, thunder boomed, winds
whipped up, and it started pouring. I started to regret staying outside and started
slowly making my back to my seat. The boat lurched to the starboard side, and I
slid back to the railing. My sister, the only other person nearby, screamed as she
jerked forward, her seatbelt stopping her from flying into the water. I slowly got
up but the boat lurched to the other side and I went flying forward, my head hitting
a chair. Clutching my head, my vision dimmed and I went flying towards the
railing again. Horrified, I suddenly realized that I missed the metal bar entirely and
was actually hurtling towards the water. On impact, my body instinctively curled
into a ball. I fought to reach the surface, but the water from the falls was pushing
me down. When my head last broke the surface, I saw many more people in the
place where I fell out. They were probably the people from the inside, who saw me
tumbling out of the boat. The freezing water made it hard to think and hard to move.
After around what I thought was