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Kevin and I on Twin Peaks

Last summer, I braved the long, boring, terrifying 5 hour plane ride and flew down to San Francisco. I went down there because my cousin, Kevin, and Aunt Sharon live there. I very rarely get to see them, maybe about once or twice every year. So when I got the call that I was being invited to fly down there, stay with them for a week, and go to Kevin’s graduation, I was pumped.

I was so excited that I got to go that I didn’t even think about how much everything would cost. The plane ticket for round trip was $450 with two baggage checks. Thankfully, my grandparents are crazy and like to travel around the world and fly all over just for the fun of it. Because of this, they had saved up enough flying points to get me an affordable, $25 plane ticket. Now I was even more excited.

The night before I was supposed to leave, I had started packing and had no idea what to pack because the weather in San Francisco is much different than in Ohio. It literally took me 2 hours to pack and I even had friends over to help me.

Finally the day had come. I went to my last day of sophomore year then when I got home, left to pick up my grandparents and headed for the airport. I was so excited I couldn’t even focus. I was shaking my legs and twittling my thumbs until it was finally time to board the plane. This was my first time being able to fly and old enough to actually remember it so on top of the excitement, I was so nervous.

After the long 5 hour plane ride, we finally landed at midnight in San Fran. My cousin and aunt came to pick me up from my grandparent’s hotel where they were staying and we let the great week begin!

One side of the school

Throughout the week we all traveled around San Fran seeing all of the great things there are to see, going to plays and movies, great restaurants, seeing the huge malls, experiencing taking the train and buses, Haight Street, the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and best of all, the graduation. Kevin’s graduating class had 400-500 people in it so it turned into a 4 hour ceremony. Thankfully, the unusual weather came that day and it was sunny and 70 degrees. I even got sunburn! His high school sat on the top of a hill and was literally the biggest school I’ve ever seen in my entire life. It had 3 floors and a basement.