Nov 30 2007
Archive for November, 2007
Nov 17 2007
Book 7, Balance is Best in All Things
Nov 06 2007
Home Away From Home
Everyone has a special place, a place he or she can call a home away from home. For me, it is the cabin my family rents for the same two weeks every summer. Cabin 24 is located in Mammoth Lakes, California, at Woods Lodge on Lake George. The cabin is small. It has five rooms, a master bedroom, a guest bedroom, a bathroom, a bedroom with two twin beds and the last room is the common room/ kitchen area. My parents stay in the master bedroom while my sister and I stay in the room across the hall with the two twin beds. As we conclude our five-hour drive to get to our beloved home away from home, we pick up the key to the cabin from the lodge and eagerly open the door. The dark brown carpet and the knotty pine wood walls are immediately visible. The smell of the vacant cabin enters our nostrils as we walk in. It smells like fresh mountain air and pungent pine trees. We all head to our rooms to unload our bags. Each year after I unload my bags, I go out onto our deck and take in the view. I have been going to the same cabin almost my whole life. The lake is about fifty yards from the cabin deck and the mountains loom overhead. The most majestic mountain of all is Crystal Crag. It is so beautiful with its jagged granite peaks piercing the sky. Then my gaze falls upon the waterfall, cascading down the long valley of smooth rocks in the mountains. It is at that moment I know it will again be two relaxing, peaceful weeks at my home away from home.
Nov 01 2007
The Halloween Creeper
One spooky, Halloween night, I was trick-or-treating with my friends, when we noticed a creepy man following us. We were trying to ignore him. We figured we were safe because there were so many other people around. All of a sudden, the once-steady, slow footsteps behind us turned into rapidly pounding feet on the pavement. Hearing this, we were all scared and began to run without even looking behind us. We ran for what seemed like miles until we could no longer hear the footsteps. As a group, we decided we would stay together and try to avoid the Halloween Creeper.
Later that evening, we ran into some of our other friends and went trick-or-treating with them for a while. They asked us if we had seen a creepy looking man dressed as a grim reaper lurking around the houses. We told them what had happened to us and they all started laughing. My friends and I were so confused. When they managed to stop laughing, they told us that the grim reaper was really my father and that he was only chasing us because I had forgotten my cell phone at home. With a smile, my friends handed me my cell phone and told me my dad had given it to them after we ran off. We all started laughing; what a Halloween experience!
