Personal Narrative: My Trip To Kansas

Cousins Camp Every other year over the summer, my grandparents from Kansas come out to Illinois. They pick up my sister and I, and also my 4 other cousins. (the younger half of the cousins) We always leave the parents at home, and that is not all! On the way to Kansas, we usually stop at an Amish store and buy 1-2 bushels of fresh Georgia peaches!! Georgia peaches are delicate, delicious, and delightful. Soon, we are on our way again. Before we know it, it is time to eat our supper. This year, we stopped at Freddy's in Kansas City. All of us cousins know when we are almost to my Grandparents farm, because in the distance we can see my Grandpas silos! When we arrived at their house, we all stepped out of the van knowing that Cousins Camp has
One day we went to the Burlington pool and swam for 3 hours! Over the weeks timespan, we went to Burlington pool 3 times. We all had so much fun, even though every one of us got fried from the sun! My Grandma told us we all were like fish in the water! My Grandparents always try to take us to, or do things we all would enjoy. One of the biggest, and most fun things we did that week, was go tubing behind a boat! We had 2 tubes, so 4 of us could be tubing at one time. My grandparents just bought a tube that day for us to use. The one they bought was more flat like a pancake, so you had to use your muscles and lift the front end up the whole time. If you were not doing that the whole time, you would go under the water. When we were done tubing, we all ate at a picnic table close to the lake. Another thing we did that week was make our own t-shirts. My Grandma would give us the right size of shirt we needed, and we would decorate the front of it with whatever we wanted to. At the end of each, day all of us cousins took turns taking a shower. My sister would always wrap the towel around her hair and use the towel like a turban. One of my boy cousins asked her why she did that, and she told him it made her hair dry faster. Well, being the genius he is, he decided to try it for himself… he quickly found out that his short hair does not dry faster in a turban! Before my grandparents made us go downstairs and go to bed, they
None of them were strangers to us because we have known every one of them since we were little. Throughout the whole week, we would begin to prep the food for when the big night came. My Grandpa has a nice size pond that has a bunch of catfish in it. He feeds the fish, and so one night, all of us cousins decided we really wanted to go with him. We all piled in the back of the farms truck, and headed down the gravel road and through the cow pasture to get to the pond. We all stood along the shore, ready for him to through in the food. The moment he through the food in there, the water turned white, because the catfish were flopping around in the water trying to get a mouthful of food. We brought a good size net with us, so my cousin put the net in the water and caught a fish. Later, we got in the truck again and drove down the gravel road 2 miles to my Uncle and Aunt's house. There, my Grandpa filleted the fish because we were going to use it for our meal. We cut the stomach open and saw the last meal he ate… fish food. We all looked at each other and gave a maybe-we-should-not-have-cut-it-open look. All of us cousins agreed that we wanted to act like we owned a restaurant. We came up with a theme for our meal, and we all decided that we would like to do a fishing theme. The name of our restaurant was “Cousinsville