Descriptive Essay-The Fourth Of July
The 4th of July
A sliver of the sun crested it’s bright head over the horizon,making Applegate glow a golden orange.Today the small island was busy with a bustling feeling of excitement as we prepared for the coming tsunami of extended family and close friends. The decorations were set and the flag rose high over the cottage,flaunting its patriotism. I walked past the mirror like water waiting to meet any disturbance with a sudden flood of ripples. We rode over to the shore waiting to load our boat with unneeded baggage and our family.We picked up uncles,aunts and cousins and so on. For hours after we shuttled distant relatives around the lake giving tours of the island.
After a while we had everyone on the island, we then made weird conversation with unknown relatives and mysterious friends of the family,most only stayed for a day,but the party happened the day after they left the 4th of July. All the people that were still there my sister ,brother,mom,dad,aunt,uncle,grandparents and myself.On that day we had planned dinner,then we would sit by the fire and after it got dark fireworks.We ate lunch that was uneventful and delicious, after a while we ate a great steak dinner and finally the show was about to start the fireworks.Something was wrong though,there was an ominous omen,the sky glowed a dull grey and black the wind …show more content…
The storm had been raging for and hour or so now,it was 8:30 at this point, there was no hope of having any fireworks or a nice fire now our chance had long since passed. So we sat in the house waiting even if the rain stopped right now it would still be too wet for my favorite 4th of July past time.There was no sun to be seen our solar powered house was stuck in the stone age.With no tv to watch and no island to explore I sat bored out of my mind
A sliver of the sun crested it’s bright head over the horizon,making Applegate glow a golden orange.Today the small island was busy with a bustling feeling of excitement as we prepared for the coming tsunami of extended family and close friends. The decorations were set and the flag rose high over the cottage,flaunting its patriotism. I walked past the mirror like water waiting to meet any disturbance with a sudden flood of ripples. We rode over to the shore waiting to load our boat with unneeded baggage and our family.We picked up uncles,aunts and cousins and so on. For hours after we shuttled distant relatives around the lake giving tours of the island.
After a while we had everyone on the island, we then made weird conversation with unknown relatives and mysterious friends of the family,most only stayed for a day,but the party happened the day after they left the 4th of July. All the people that were still there my sister ,brother,mom,dad,aunt,uncle,grandparents and myself.On that day we had planned dinner,then we would sit by the fire and after it got dark fireworks.We ate lunch that was uneventful and delicious, after a while we ate a great steak dinner and finally the show was about to start the fireworks.Something was wrong though,there was an ominous omen,the sky glowed a dull grey and black the wind …show more content…
The storm had been raging for and hour or so now,it was 8:30 at this point, there was no hope of having any fireworks or a nice fire now our chance had long since passed. So we sat in the house waiting even if the rain stopped right now it would still be too wet for my favorite 4th of July past time.There was no sun to be seen our solar powered house was stuck in the stone age.With no tv to watch and no island to explore I sat bored out of my mind