Lonely Me {Rachel}

This week is Spring Break, and I'm afraid I have nothing cool to say about that. I'm not going anywhere or doing anything. But... it is Reed's first baseball game(s) this week! I guess that is one thing to be exited for, but other than that I am pretty boring. All of my friends are going somewhere:
Jessica: Oregon to party with the Baxter fam and have an Easter party.
Emily: Going to Disneyland to use up their year-long passes (with Jolene's family)
Jolene: Going to Disneyland to use up their year-long passes
Kyrra: Going to Arizona to see family
Rachel: . . . . . .
I will do my best to have a good time without my besties, and I hope they have a good time!

Yesterday in English we had to write a "figurative language story" about anything. It just so happend that I had this subject on my mind, therfore that is what I wrote about. Look below to read all about it. My mom thought it was pretty funny, and I won the prize in English for having the best story!
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(My Dream) Spring Break 2013

    For spring break this year we are going to Arizona. I bet it will be as hot as our oven, and lots of fun! I hope we get a lot of time to watch baseball games, go shopping, and swim. My siblings and I can’t stop counting the hours until Friday after school when we will head out of town. We have been packing for days now, and I am dying inside! I can’t wait!

    Last night I had a dream, I saw a picture of the States, then Arizona started to get bigger and bigger. Eventually the US faded away and all I could see was Arizona. It started to talk to me. It said “Rachel, be patient in only a few hours you will be here,” turns out my brother had the same dream! Even my 7 year old sister came home from school yesterday and showed me a paper. It said “Soon I will be swimming, swinging, and singing in the sun!”. She hit the nail right on the head!

    Before us kids knew about this trip, our parents booked a stay at a hotel with a sauna, swimming pool, hot tub, and breakfast every morning! Most days we will be at pro baseball games, but on other days we will be touring national parks with fiery red rock, and eating lunch in small cafe’s. Just if 2 days could pass by as if it were only hours!

    Turns out we weren't even supposed to know about this trip until Friday. My parents accidentally made the mistake of texting each other about the trip, and when my mom handed me her phone to text, while she was driving, I just scrolled through the messages. Opps, that was when I saw the messages from my dad. She thinks it was my fault, but really she let the cat out of the bag.

    If only I could say that this trip were really happening. All of my dreaming is coming to an end; as I print this story and walk out of the computer lab with nothing planned over spring break. 

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 Can you find all of the figurative language that I used?

 

Love,
   Rachel (who will spend a lot of time on the computer for the next week. Does anyone have any 'computer projects' they need done?)