Sarah's "The Best Hike Ever!"

In this story,

is "water",

is "berries",

is "bug",

is "weather", and

is "hotdogs".

"Ring...ring...ring" The telephone at my house rang. "Hello", I said in a sleepy voice. "Sarah,are you ready to go on our big nature camp yet?" It was my grandpa! I was supposed to be ready two hours ago! "Sorry grandpa. I must of slept in." I should be ready in a few minutes." I said. "No problem sweety. Just call me and let me know when you're ready to go okay?" "Sure Gramps", I said. "Oh, and Sarah.", he said. "yes Gramps", I replied. "Don't forget to bring a lot of

and I brought some

we can snack on." My grandpa was always prepared for everything! I got of the phone and quickly got dressed. I ran three blocks down the street to my grandpa's house. My grandpa was waiting for me outside. We loaded our

bottles,

repellient, and other things into the truck and got in. About four hours later, the

started not to look so good. It seemed like it was starting to rain. "Don't let a little rain stop you Sarah", my grandpa said. "I wont gramps. !

It's just I really was looking forward to going...." "camping", my gramps said inturupting me. "And we still are going so don't you worry sweety.", My gramps never worried about anything. He always thought so positively. Which was probably a good thing. Leater on when we were almost in the woods the

cleared up. The sun actually started to come out. We finally got there and we stepped out of the truck only to find some juicy looking purple

! Yumm I thought to myself. As I walked over to them, My gramps told me not to eat them because they could be poissoness. Of chourse, I listened to him. It's much safer if he checks them first. My grandpa checked them and said that they weren't poissoness. I tried a couple of

. Boy, were they ever good!

Night time came and my grandpa and I were exausted, so we fell asleep with no trouble at all.The next morning we had our leftover

for breakfast and we drank some

. Then we got ready for our big, long walk in the woods. "Sarah, don't forget to grab a hiking stick.", my grandpa reminded me. "I won't gramps", I said. I went into the bush and found a perfect hiking stick.

On our hike, we saw so many neat things such as; deer, chipmunks, strange birds, more

, and lots of sounds were heard as well. The

was perfect during our hike. It was the best.

The best hike EVER!

The End

Story by: Sarah, age 12, Canada

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