My learning experience

When I was 4 years old, my family and I took our yearly trip in June, to St. Catherines, Ontario to visit my mom’s side of the family. Even though it was a shorter than usual trip, it was a fun trip because I went through many entertaining adventures, but one of those adventures was really bad. It was the night of the first full day we arrived there.
We started off by getting up at 4 a.m. and driving all the way to St. Catherines from Gainesville. When we got there it was 11 at night the same day we left and my parents were exhausted from driving. It was a long 19 hour drive.
The first full day I was there I visited with all my cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. To be honest it was kind of boring because all I cared about at the time was playing and all we did was talk. But that night was when the adventure began. It was around 5 p.m. and my parents had to go out for dinner with my aunt and uncle; therefore, my grandma had to babysit my cousins, Mariah, and I. Well, an hour after my parents left, we were all playing outside till my sister and cousin wanted to watch a movie. As a result, my cousin, Alexa and I stayed outside, but before my grandma went to go put a movie on she told us to stay right there in the toy car and not move. When she said that, it gave us an idea to hide and mess with her, so we did. We hid in bulky bushes; therefore, she would not be able to spot us easily.
When my grandma came out after about 2 minutes, she noticed we were not there and gave a shocked look. I thought she was literally going to go into shock, but for some reason me and my cousin just stayed there and did not move. My grandma started freaking out and looked all over for us. She checked everywhere for us, the house, the entire backyard including the bushes we were in, but they were so thick, she could not get a good look through the limbs. After about 15 minutes of looking, she went inside and called my grandfather to come and help look. He came in about 2 minutes and helped look for us. My cousin Alexa and I were not thinking of how serious this was, so we stayed in our hiding spot. After about 45 more minutes of looking for us, my grandfather finally spotted us. He had a look on his face as if he was going to kill us. All he said was “get inside”. About 5 minutes after we went inside, our parents arrived home. We were in trouble like no other. They yelled at us for about 2 hours and it was way past our bedtime. We had to say sorry to our grandparents and write them a letter on why it was wrong. The last 4 days of the week I was grounded and could not do anything fun. This was an interesting learning adventure for me and my cousin.