By Jackie
When I was four or five I went to Costa Rica for 8 days with my family, and Maddie and her family. The plane ride was long and upsetting for me because my brother broke my Nintendo and I cried for a long time. After the depressing plane ride we had to drive to our hotel. The drive was long and very boring because I didn’t have anything to do but I stared outside the window the whole time.
Once we got to our hotel Maddie,
my mom, and I all went swimming in our pool. The pool had a water slide and a
hot tub, and at night we watched the active volcano that was right above our
hotel. The Arenal Volcano had little rivers of lava flowing down from it, and
at night they were like red icicles. During the day we heard the large boulders
of lava bouncing down the sides of the volcano, and saw clouds of steam coming
from the top.We swam in the many
hot pools that were heated by the volcano, and some were super hot and others
just hot.
It was very green in Costa Rica, and there were very big storms that had lightning and thunder and Maddie and I would sit on the hammocks to watch the storms. The country has a lot of jungles, due to the rainfalls.
We went hiking around the
volcano and there was big grey rocks covering the whole mountain. After the
hike we had to walk back to the hotel and on our way we saw a lot of iguanas,
which were small and a greenish grayish color. We also saw monkeys, colorful
plants, and a lot of other green plants.
A few days later we went to a different hotel which had a jungle around it, a pool with a waterslide, and was on a steep hillside above the Pacific Ocean. The jungle had a lot of monkeys and Maddie and I would play with the monkeys and feed them even though we weren’t supposed to. The beach was really hot and Maddie and I swam in the water.
Back at the hotel, Maddie and I went down the waterslide together. She was in front of me and I was behind her. When we got to the bottom of the waterslide I accidently somehow gave Maddie a huge black eye!
After dinners we would go out on our deck and sit in thehammock and talk. One day we rode horses in the mountains. It was a very long ride and very exciting. The horses kept trying to pass each other and we ended up running through the jungle most of the time. We stopped at this place and it had a super beautiful waterfall that we swam in. I was really scared that something was either going to eat, bite, or attack me, so I didn’t swim. At lunch we were able to hold huge and colorful parrots on our heads and arms.
After the long, bumpy horseback ride we went to a restaurant that looked like a old plane that crashed. On the other side of the plane there was this restaurant with monkeys everywhere. Later that day we went to a butterfly farm and saw how butterflies grow.
Finally the day came that we had
to leave and I was very sad, but happy that I was going home. When I finally
got home I was really happy because I got a new Nintendo.
henry (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 1:33 PM
like how you explaind the pool
braden (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 1:45 PM
Jackie, great story! A tucan was sitting on you. That would fun. Keep up the good work
-Braden
Garrett Rawlings (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 2:28 PM
Jackie i thought you story was very good. you did a good job explaining everything. You gave me a good picture. At the start i think you used and a little to much.
- Garrett
Olivia (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 3:14 PM
Hi Jackie,
I really liked your story! You were very clear on your feelings and your story had good flow. I really liked the paragraph about the volcano. You were very descriptive! I think you could describe everything a little more like you did in the volcano paragraph. Keep up the good work, Jackie!
-Olivia
Waverly (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 3:21 PM
Jackieeeeeeeeeeee,
I loved the part when you said the volcanoes looked like red icicles, it had alot of detail. I am also glad you got your Nintendo by the end of the trip.
-wave
Ryan (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 3:34 PM
Jackie-
That was an awesome story! You explained everything really well and it was described very well. You also added humor into it, which makes a story complete. I'm sorry your brother broke your nintendo, but glad you got a new one. Good job. Keep it up.
-Ryan
jack goodwin (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 3:36 PM
jackie, nice story it told everything. like you explained the pool and stuff like that. i like the part about the tucan that was funny and i also liked when you told us that your brothers nintendo broke and he was crying for a long time i though that was funny.
GREAT JOB
j slice
jack goodwin (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 3:39 PM
nice job jackie your story told everything about your trip i also like when you discribed things like the pool and stuff...... also it was funny like the thing about the tucan and also when your brothers nintendo broke and he was crying for a long time......
GREAT JOB
j slice
Evan (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 3:54 PM
i liked the discription and i cried when your brother broke your nintendo. Jokes aside, it was a good story and i hoped you had a great time.
Keegan Whitelaw (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 4:32 PM
Jackie,
That was really good and detailed! I loved how you described the pool. It must have been a really fun trip!
I can't believe a Tucan landed on you! That would be weird but also fun! That trip sounded fun! Keep up the
good work!
-Keegan
Eliza (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 5:42 PM
Jackie, that was really good. My only question was who was Maddie? I liked the pictures a lot and I thought it was funny how you put that you got a new nintendo and you were very happy at the end! Good Job Jackie!
Eliza
Lilly (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 7:46 PM
Jackie-
That is an amazing story. Very detailed and a wonderful story. I really liked it. I like that story very much. Thanks for sharing that story with us.
Parker Jones (unauthenticated)
Mar 9, 2010 9:01 PM
Jackie-I really liked how you described the pools and the lava. My favorite part was when you got home and got a new Nintendo that was awsome ounce agian nice job.
Max Tanous (unauthenticated)
Mar 10, 2010 5:06 PM
I really thought you did a great job with the details about the volcano, and the hotels. I got very clear pictures in my head.
Great story
Max
Hannah (unauthenticated)
Mar 10, 2010 6:02 PM
Jackie,
I really liked your story. I thought it was very descriptive. I noticed you said that something was (adjective) and (adjective), such as long and boring. You did that a bunch, but I think it was really cool and that made it more descriptive. I thought you did really well in describing how you swam and played with the monkeys. That sounded really cool! Great job!
Hannah
Lexi who is NOT (unauthenticated)
Mar 10, 2010 6:12 PM
wow jackie! that was REALLY good! i have always wanted to go to Costa Rica, and now between your pictures and discription i feel like i have been there.
Blair (unauthenticated)
Mar 10, 2010 6:49 PM
Jackie- that was a great story!! i made me feel like i was there with you! keep writing!
Blair
Pierson (unauthenticated)
Mar 10, 2010 7:50 PM
Jackie, I really liked your story I liked how you put detail into how you felt.
Great story, Nighthawk
Thomas Gillespie (unauthenticated)
Mar 10, 2010 11:35 PM
jackie that was a great story and i wish i could go to costa rica it souds like an awsome place! the details were great and the hot springs sound amazing!!
Thomas A.K.A kiwi
EmiIy (unauthenticated)
Mar 11, 2010 1:03 PM
Jackie that was a graet story. Nice descision of costa rica it sounds so cool nice job on your story. You could have talk alittle more about the cinary wheen you were hores back ridding. nice job
Darby (unauthenticated)
Mar 11, 2010 1:03 PM
Jackie,
I really liked your story! everything was very descriptive and i almost felt like i was there with you. The hotels both sound awesome. i really like how you said there were so many animals everywhere and you were feeding, petting and holding them. good job!
-Darby
Nico Gerhardt (unauthenticated)
Mar 11, 2010 1:14 PM
Jackie, i liked how you described all of the things you did and i also feel sorry because your brother broke your nintendo.
keep up the good work
Nico
lukas dewolfe (unauthenticated)
Mar 11, 2010 1:27 PM
Jackie that was a really good story and i wish that i could go to costa rica it sounded like it was a lot of fun. I really liked your story and it ad a lot of great details. I liked when u said "the rivers coming down from the volcano were like red icicles.
lukas A.K.A watermelon
samie (unauthenticated)
Mar 11, 2010 9:13 PM
jackie,
your story was good.
you had a lot of details.
I think the plane restarant sounded cool
samie
Colby (unauthenticated)
Mar 28, 2010 7:55 PM
Jackie,
I liked how you were very descriptive and also added in some humor.
dane (unauthenticated)
Mar 29, 2010 2:55 PM
I bet all the animals you said you saw were really cool espataly te parots you held.
Jay (unauthenticated)
Mar 29, 2010 6:38 PM
Jackie,
i liked how you were very descriptive,it is so cool that you got to eat in that \old airplane(real food NOT airplane food. i thought that you did a really good job describeing the volcano.
Tripp (unauthenticated)
Mar 30, 2010 8:21 AM
nice story jackie that sounded like a really fun trip. you described every thing really well and i loved the part when you talked about the volcano.
P.S. the parrot part was funny!
Griffin (unauthenticated)
Mar 31, 2010 8:55 AM
i liked how you dicribed the whole story.
-griffin
kristian (unauthenticated)
Mar 31, 2010 8:56 AM
Jackie OMG that was a really good story. i thought that was a really tricked out airplane good job. I thought
Alex (unauthenticated)
Mar 31, 2010 3:21 PM
Jackie
Very Awesome Story Jackie!! THe Volcano sounded cool and the the parrot was really funny!!
Alex
Hope Perkins (unauthenticated)
Apr 1, 2010 5:35 PM
Jackie
I really liked your story jackie! I think that you could've been a little more distcriptive though.
-Hope
Sarah (unauthenticated)
Apr 5, 2010 6:19 PM
Hey JO great job uve told me about that trip but i can see it better if im reading about it good job i wanna go to that volcano!!
sean (unauthenticated)
Apr 6, 2010 8:48 AM
that was great and that would be cool to see a volcano
star fish (unauthenticated)
Apr 8, 2010 8:10 PM
jackie
i loved your story i have always wanted to go to costa rica and i love the plane restaront
star fish