Iguanas: A Short Story

Imagine being surrounded by iguanas that are each two to four feet long. How would you feel? A slight and startling tingle crawled up my spine. My hands were clenched together and they started sweating. I screamed, jumped, and cried. I moved as slow as a snail. During the summer of 2015, my family and I were in the astonishing field of Xel-Ha Park, which is located in Cancun, Mexico. It was peaceful and stunning. Instead of seeing the many activities the park had to offer, I only saw iguanas. This was also true when I went zip-biking. All around us people were laughing while my family and I were sobbing. We were all terrified, but we continued on and tried to have fun. “Iguanas! Iguanas! Iguanas!”, my sister yelled with fright. There were iguanas
My mom, sister, and I had tears rolling down our faces when we saw an iguana’s fin open. The scaly brown spikes made us think that we were going to die. To scare us even more, one by one the iguanas opened their fins as if they were choreographing a Polynesian Tiki dance. Fortunately, nothing happened! Finally, we found hammocks to rest in. After we laid down, a “storm” of iguanas came running toward us. We ran away as quickly as we could and found a lazy river to float in using tubes. It took us one hour to get to the end of the river because the water pressure was so low that it didn’t carry us there, and we had to paddle the entire way.
In the winter of 2016, my cousins decided to go to Xel-Ha. We warned them about all the iguanas, but they didn’t listen and went anyway. When they returned home, we found out that they didn’t meet any iguanas! We were mad that we had to constantly deal with the iguanas, and they didn’t. Although I never want to go back to Xel-Ha in the summer, I was glad that I tried something new. This trip has been memorable to me because I tried something new, even though it didn’t turn out that it was