Trip

When I was young my family and I traveled to Florida to visit other relatives and to go to the beach.  I was really excited.  I had been to Florida a few years earlier to go to Walt Disney World and I really enjoyed it.  The long drive over there was not much fun, of course.  However, it was worth it when we finally arrived at our destination.  Our hotel was right on the edge of the beach, so we could simply go outside and walk on the beach.  I loved walking in the water and collecting seashells.  My goal was to try to find as many Sand Dollars as possible.  I was a little worried after I found some later but they were practically surrounded by stingrays.  There was also a poor just outside of the hotel.  My brother tried teaching me how to do different dives and swimming techniques but I did not catch on right away.  We then went to some seafood restraint.  I had a snow crab and it surprised me that the crab was still in its shell and I had to break it off with some sort of instrument that the waitress gave me.  After being in Florida long enough we went to visit my aunt who lives by Atlanta.  For some reason I had not been feeling well during that time.  We all went to a large aquarium exhibit that otherwise would have been very interesting to look at but the only thing that I felt like doing was staying home.  I do remember that there were small sharks and stingrays that you could pet and there was a poster showing a Japanese Sea Crab which it claimed can grow as big as a car.  When we finally got back home I wanted to stay in bed for a long time because of what I thought was the stomach flu.  The irony of the situation is that my brother would check up on how I was doing and bring crackers for me to eat (I didn’t feel like eating anything), etc..  I told him that he should stay away from me unless he wants to get sick too, but he would not leave.  A couple days later I felt better and he was the one that was sick.  While one might think that going to Disney World would be more fun than going to the beach and an aquarium, this trip was far more memorable.