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With my hero The best vacation I ever had was the summer of 2005 when my parents let me invite a friend to go on vacation with us. We spent a week in the mountains at a place called Banner Elk. That week we went to Tweetsie Railroad, Dollywood, Grandfather Mountain and the Linville Caverns. Sometimes we would stay at the condo and go fishing, boating, swimming or we’d play golf. My favorite thing was when we drove to Tennessee and went to Dollywood, a great big amusement park. When we got there, we had to ride a train from our car to the front gate to get our tickets. We spent the whole day riding rides. We saw shows. We played in the water park and ate some really great food. We stayed there until it got dark and a bad storm came up. We stood in line in the rain waiting for the train to pick us up and take us back to our car. When the train started moving, I dropped my bag with a t-shirt in it that I had bought. I started yelling for them to stop the train, but they didn’t. My daddy asked me what was wrong and I told him I dropped that bag outside the train. He jumped out of the moving train and ran all the way back across the parking lot in the pouring rain, thunder and lightning to get my bag. My daddy ran as fast as he could to catch up with us. He finally reached us, and when the train stopped again to let some people off, he jumped on. Everyone started clapping for him, and I hugged him and told him he was my hero. We were all soaking wet when we got to the car, but we had a great day. It was the best day out of the entire vacation. Kaitlyn Hodges, Grantsboro | Tideland EMC |
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