Blog 8

My Terrible Thanksgiving break

Nina Yang

W&C III

Ms. Guarino

12/14/2014

    My thanksgiving break can be summarized in a complete phrase, which is “bad weather”. However, it did not suppose to be like that. My friend and I made a perfect plan almost a month before the break, but there was one thing we didn’t pay attention to—the weather report. Then, we got on to the plane to Florida excitedly.

    We decided to go to Miami and Orlando in the first five days of break because my cousin was there, and he could take us to anyplace we like since he has a car. We decided lay on the beach in Miami for first two days and get tan. We imaged the sun is like a huge heater when we were still in the freezing Connecticut. Things always go contrary to people’s wishes. After we got out the plane, the weather soon turned to windy and cloudy. It was like it didn’t welcome us to Florida. My cousin kept laughing at us. He said that it was our bad luck that brought the cold wind from New York all the way to Florida. The wind blew harder after we ate lunch, and my cousin asked us if we still want to go to the beach. We insisted. Actually, it was a bad decision. Because of the large waves, people were not allowed to swim in the sea. The temperature decreased rapidly because of the overcast sky. We were standing on the beach and hearing the sound of the sea was like crying in front of us, and also my heart was crying inside my chest. My thanksgiving break had started.

    After staying in the hotel for two days, we went to Orlando and hoped to have a good weather there. In fact, the sun seemed like disappeared in Florida. We went to the Universal Studio for two days. The first day was not bad without the sun. It was actually a good weather to go to an amusement park in a cloudy day because the temperature was not that hot. We enjoyed the first day so much, and I would definitely go to the Universal Studio again next time. However, it was completely different the next day. Our flight is in the evening, so we decided to go to the adventure Island of the Universal Studio, which we never been to before. The thing was in the morning of that day; we were having our breakfast, both of us got an alert that there was a hurricane around 10am to 10:30am, and people should not go out during that time. At that time, we knew that our plan was completely ruined by the weather. Around 10:40am, the hurricane had passed, so we decided to go to the Universal Studio even the rain was still pretty heavy. There were fewer people than yesterday because of the weather. The rain was like someone was pouring water from the sky. Even though we both had umbrella at that time, our shoes and pants got all wet. That day was like a disaster for us. Our flight in the evening delayed from 6pm to 10pm. We arrived at New York at almost 1am.

    The miserable story did not ended. On the day we arrived to New York, it snowed. We were supposed to go shopping on that day. The snow didn’t stop our desire for shopping. We went shopping in the cold wind and snow. The wind in New York was like tons of little knifes were cutting your face, cold and hurt.

    My friend caught a cold after got back to school. Our terrible thanksgiving break was finally ended. I learned only one thing from this break: remember to check the weather report before go on a vacation.