by CL, Santa Cruz
I’ve had some happy moments in life, but I have three favorites. One is when me and my family took a trip to Lake Tahoe. That was one of the most fun times in my life because me and my mom, uncles, aunts, and cousins all rented a big house where we all stayed.
It was fun because when we got there, the house had a little hill where you could park your cars, but it was full of a lot of ice and the cars didn’t have chains on the tires, so the cars couldn’t go up. We all hopped out of the cars and went inside the house and got buckets of hot water to try to melt the ice. We would walk with the water. It was hard.
One of my cousins slipped first and I started laughing hella hard. I went in the house for more water and when I was walking down the hill, I slipped, and the hot water fell on me, and it burned, and I hit myself hard on my back. My cousins laughed at me harder. I was mad and we saw the water wasn’t working.
We gave up and we started breaking the ice with some metal sticks we found in the house. This actually worked. The cars went up and we were hella happy. The next morning, I woke up and my back was hella hurting. I ate breakfast that morning and after I took a shower, we all went to this place where there was a hill of snow, and you could ice skate or do other fun stuff.
Me and my cousins bought these boards for riding down the snowy hill. It was fun but then me and two of my cousins hopped on the same board. We were going down the hill, but there was a tree, and we were going fast and we couldn’t stop. We hit the tree. It hurt, but it was funny, so we all started laughing.
This was one of my favorite moments in life.