Family Folklore by Natalie Sefilian

My fantabulous family trip we went on was fantabulous. Last summer my family and I decided to drive down to Bear Lake for the weekend. It was super duper fun except being in a car with two sisters and one dog was most likely the worst part. I was sitting down for 2 or 3 hours straight that my butt was practically glued down. The car was so hot it felt like we were walking on the sun. The whole drive there was really noisy. I felt bad for my parents. Alice, Marina, and I were watching Ratrace and we could not stop laughing. Our laughter was louder than me singing in the shower. We kept getting yelled at by my dad until he finally realized what movie we were watching. After the awesomest car ride ever, we finally made it to Bear Lake.

The only reason we went to Bear Lake was to go boating/tubing/fishing. So we got to the lake and we were off in the wonderfully beautiful bluish greenish water. While my dad was driving I was holding on so tight because I didn’t want to fly off the boat and land in the water. My father, mother, sisters, doggy and I were having a time of our lives. We put our sunscreen on and we were lying out and tanning. All of a sudden my dad was like whose first for the tubing and of course I always having to be first was the first one to go tubing. I love tubing more than I love spending time with the Fabulous 5. Okay that’s so not true because I love the Fabulous 5 but any who I was off in the water while everybody else was still on the boat. I was kind of freaking out because I really hate water with fishes in them because I always thought the fish would bite my toes. Yes weird and childish but so true and I still am afraid. My dad started up the boat and I was off going like 7000 miles per second in the water. My dad did a HUGE turn and there was a HUGE bump that I flew off the tube and into the water. And that’s when I was freaking out because of the fishes in the water. I swam as fast as a cheetah to get back to the boat. UNTIL I finally reached it. It was super fun though. I had never realized that I could swim that fast. But I guess I could.

The day went by with my family and I have a blast. We all swam and went tubing. My dad fished. My mom, sisters, and I tanned. It was all so fun. My dog even had a great time because he was practically asleep half the time. By the time we got back to shore and where my dad hooks our boat to the car we all were so tired. We got in the car and we just went straight to our cabin which is also in Bear Lake and we unpacked everything and went to bed. I fell asleep in less than 1 minute. Once my head touched my pillow I was already sleeping. That was such a fun weekend. I love my family and I loved our boating trip.