a (Not quite) wet Phoenix

    Bright sunlight hit the windows of a car driving down the road, a blue van, tugging on a bright white cargo trailer as it was slightly blown from side to side. In the van was a family of nine, the eldest child sitting in the front talking to the mom. L leaned against T’s car seat sighing, the trip was going to take a while, as he knew it would. The family had left to drive to Phoenix AZ just a short time ago, and almost everyone was complaining. L wondered if staring at another saguaro cactus would be more entertaining, he knew he wanted to just get there so the screaming would stop, but L knew that it wouldn’t really help. He listened to the wind shrieking and scraping the sides of the van, it almost lulled him to sleep, until F, A, E, and T all started complaining at the same time. He wondered if they would ever be able to just stay quiet for even just ten minutes, He knew that C would doubt they could even be quiet for five.

    When the troop got to the campsite, and had set up camp, A wondered if they could swim that night, Mom said it was okay to, and they all got their swimsuits on. Swimming in winter was one of the weirdest things L had experienced so far in the whole trip, because the water was warm, and back at his home, the swimming pools would be all iced up, or put away. L also thought the hot tub was nice, with the warm jets spitting on his back. It wrapped up the day with some heat and fun.

A white winter wonderland poem

White gypsum dust

Spreading ‘cross the land

Maybe it is snow

But you can say it’s sand

Having fun, Digging holes

Watching out for

Rocks and sticks

Maybe you should come and see me

Make some sandball bricks

What I like

        When we go hiking, I like to look at all the rocks and think about how they formed to be like how they are. I also like it when it is dark outside so I can drink hot cocoa and play board games with my family. I think hammocks are nice to lay down in and read books, especially when it is warm out. Playing video games is one of my favorite things to do, and when I play with my family, it makes it even more fun.

    

        I like my family’s camper because we hand-built almost the whole thing, and I got to choose some of the things added to it. My bunk has a good amount of space in it and has a curtain, plus a light! I like my mother’s and father’s bed because you can extend it to be almost twice it’s size so both of them can sleep in it. It was fun to see how the bed was made. The carpet in the hallway blocks noise from when someone gets out of their bunk. With the hand-made part of the camper, it makes it easy to set up and tear down. The kitchen is nice and compact in the back of the camper, and stores a lot of food and tools.

        The first stop we went to was in a small ravine, so it had mountains on both sides which blocked the wifi from coming in. There were lots of trees to hang our hammocks in and I hung mine by the Pecos River which was next to one of the mountains.