two month later, I saw my 12-year-old son wrote this trip at his school assignment too. Here is his vision of this trip
Johnson’s Shut-ins
I took a deep breath, and jumped off the cliff. Hold up, I know what you’re thinking; somebody save this idiot! But you haven’t heard the full story yet, let’s back up for a second.
Ugh! We were on our way to Johnson’s Shut-ins, I was
excited for the trip, but the car ride felt like hours! My family was going with other family friends.
I sat in the back of the car, and snuck out my phone, so did Alex, the kid from the other family. I turned it on and opened a game.
We weren’t allowed to play video games during car rides, but this car ride was so long, it was the only way to pass the time.
“What are you doing?” my mom asked.
“Playing games,” I replied. There was no need to hide the truth anymore.
“Turn your phones off, now!” Reluctantly, I turned off my phone, but Alex quickly turned his back on.
“What are you-” I started but then saw what he was doing. He played some music and held his phone against his ear. It was genius! I quickly did the same.
Finally, with the help of music to pass the time, we made it! We pulled up at the entrance and rolled down the window to pay the entry fee.
“Sorry,” said the little man in the ticket booth, “but all the parking spaces are taken. You can wait for someone to exit, or you can park at the far building and walk here.”
We chose to park at the far building because we didn’t know when the next person would exit.
“I need the exercise anyway!” Joked my mom. Together, we all walked to the park.
Finally, we got there, and it took my breath away, it was amazing! There was lots of rock, all smoothed away by the rushing water flowing over and around it. I stepped into the water.
Whoosh! The water was a lot deeper than I thought, I held on to the the rock wall for dear life, no matter how forcefully I swam, the swift current, plus the fact that I was wearing crocs, made it impossible to swim to shore. I yelled for help and thrashed against the current, but it did no good.
All of a sudden, a hand reached out and picked me up from the water and put me on dry land.
“Thanks,” I murmured to the man. Then I went and took off my crocs; I was ready to enter the water again. This time, I made sure I could see the bottom of the water and slowly descended into the pool and waded over to the calmer, shallower water.
This place was perfect for a water park! There were smooth sloping rocks, with water spilling over, so that they were like a mini waterslide. I slid down one of the slides,but the rock ended in a two feet cliff that I tumbled down and landed hard on my bottom.
“Oww,” I moaned, and sat out for a little, but soon I was feeling better and continued the adventure.
Alex and I explored the rocks, and we came upon a huge pool filled with people. We went back to our stuff and brought the water guns we took to the pool, and shot each other for awhile. After that, my dad told me that the place where I fell led to an even bigger pool.
I faced my fears and went down there again, but this time, instead of swimming against the current, I went with it. Surprisingly, the ride was smooth and fast-paced!
It opened up to a brobdingnagian pool even bigger than the one before, and there was a giant rock where people were jumping off into the water.
“Woah,” I breathed, excitement filling me from head to toe.
Bit by bit, Alex and I climbed up the rock. I took a deep breath, and jumped off the cliff into the water. I plunged into the cold water feet-first.
The water enveloped me and I quickly swam back to the surface. When I emerged from the water, I heard somebody bragging about how they could touch the bottom of the pool.
I decided to try to touch the bottom of the pool, and I jumped again, but this time I used my momentum to propel myself as low as possible. I reached out, but all I felt was water. I tried again, and again, and again, but to no avail.
Eventually, we got tired of rock jumping and swam all the way to the other side of the pool. We swam around for a bit, but I was ready to go home. So was everyone else, and we found my mom and Alex’s mom sitting on the rocks. We all prepared for another 20 minutes of walking back to the car.
As we walked, I thought back to the action-packed day I had, filled with cliff diving and the swimming. One thing I know for certain, I wish everybody has the chance to go to Johnson’s Shut-Ins, because it is definitely worth it.
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Later on, I revised and published at http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2DfqmdKZWR_wpbPfc-bqRQ