Yellow Stone Vacation

We were going around the country, but little did we know that at the end of our trip we would have tons of trouble.
We were going to Yellow Stone. Down the dark road I was up in my bed looking out the windows and I finally fell asleep. I woke up Saturday morning at Walmart, in the parking lot. Then we went on a boat and won free Pizza. After that we drove for a couple days. We went through the Bad Lands to Rushmore. We also went to a place called Reptile Gardens, but that was before Rushmore. A m an showed us a rattle snake and a king cobra. The same man was with tons of alligators. We got to Rushmore at night. The light on the faces of our presidents. We slept at the K. A. Y. That night. A couple days later, we went to see the sate of Utah and visited friends. We went up a waterfall and spent the night at their place.
The next day we went to a space Imax movie. Then we left and drove all day and spent the night at the Grand Tea Tons. We finally got to Yellow Stone the next day. We saw the Old Faithful Inn. After a couple minutes, we saw the one and only Old Faithful geyser erupt. We also saw another one erupt from far away. We spent the night at Fishing Bridge. It was a place where you could fish but the people fishing lowered the trout population and everything went wrong.
The next morning we went to the point pots in Yellow Stone. We smelled tons of stinky sulfur. Once, the sulfur was so thick it smelled so awful, but my dad hardly smelled it. All of the sudden a bison stood right in the middle of the path we were one, causing a traffic jam. It finally went off the path. Then two baby bison were on the path. One went off and the other stayed for a while. Than it got off and we finally got to the other side. We went back to fishing bridge and spent another night there.

(more to come)

W. Gardner - 4th Grade

My Pets

My dog's name is Queen. She is a puppy who likes to eat.
Sometimes she eats and drinks too fast and gets sick.
Queen has a sister named Princess.
Princess looks like a skunk, and she never get's sick.
My puppies make me happy.

By: H. Powell 3rd Grade

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A Trip to Lake Michigan

It was a hot summer weekend and we were camping at the beach. Adam and I grabbed our booggie boardsand ran towards the gigantic waves. Before we knew it, we were gasping for breath and swimming for our lives.
Wait a minute, you should hear the beginning first. I was at my house and I was packing my stuff that I wanted to take on the camping trip. I had an idea. Maybe my cousin, Adam, wanted to come with us to lake Michigan. I got up off the ground and walked to my parents bedroom. I said, "Can Adam come with us to lake Michigan?" They said that he could come. So I walked back to the kitchen, which is where the phone is, and grabbed the phone. I dialed his phone number. "BRRRRING, BRRRING... Hello?" "Hi, I was wondering if Adam could go to lake Michigan with us. "Sure," said Adam's mom. "He'll pack his stuff and be over in about thirty minuts." "Thank you," I said. I played video games until he came.
After I was done playing video games, I sat on the couch and looked out the window and waited until Adam came. When I saw Adam's car, I ran to the door and waited until he came inside. I opened it before he got to knock. I said, "Let me help you with your stuff." We walked to my room. I put his stuff on the room floor. "Let's play a video game," I said. We played the fovorite one that I had. I accidentally erased my file. Adam said, "oh man!" I said, "oops!" The game was lost, and we had to start a new one.
When it was time to leave, we took the game into the truck, because Adam has a DVD player that can play video games. We hooked up the video game and waited for my dad to start up the truck. My dad hooked up the trailer and we drove off.
Almost the whole way there we played video games. We stopped to stretch, eat, and go to the bathroom if we had to. Adam and I got out, streched and walked over the bridge to go the bathroom. We talked about the video game the whole way there and back. When we got back into the truck, we played video games again, and before too long, we were there.

A. Clements - 6th Grade

A Bump in the Night

One night, while I was in bed, I heard a big "thump." I had no idea what happened. I heard another big thump so I searched around and it was dark and pitch black in the house. I thought I would go to the kitchen to look around. I went to the kitchn and after I got out of the kithchen I looked around some more. I found Lane, my brother, opening the drier and sticking his brown haired head in the drier and then pulling his head out and shutting the door. Then Lane and I went back to bed. Bright and early in the morning, I asked Lane, "what were you doing last night?" He looked at me like I was crazy! "Lane," I said, "you did something funny last night."
"What do you mean, I did something funny last night?" he asked. "You went to the drier and stuck your head in it." "What do you mean," Lane said. "I was sound asleep last night."

A. Henderson - 3rd Grade