It Was Paradise

It Was Paradise 

For me, the best childhood memory I have is going to San Antonio, Texas. Almost my whole family went. Kaila, Cassie, Kara, Camryn, my mom, dad and I packed our bags and got headed to the airport. My dad had gone on many work trips to Texas before and decided it was a great place to spend Easter with the family. My brother, of course didn’t want to come so he spent the two week at home with my aunts and uncles checking up on him periodically.

We got on a plane together in the spring of 2004. I remember sitting next to my little sister Camryn. It was her first time on a plane and she looked nervous. I handed her a piece of gum so her ears wouldn’t pop. After liftoff she was fine; we colored some pictures together and watched a movie. That plane ride seemed like the longest trip in the world! I couldn’t sit still I was so anxious for the sunny Texas weather. Once we landed, I remember getting our rental car. The man handed us two sets of keys for two Jeeps, one orange and one lime green. My dad hated it and wanted to get a new one but us girls wouldn’t let him. He drove the lime green one, my sister, who recently got her license, drove with my mom in the orange car to the hotel. Our hotel was more like a resort. The hotel was only three levels, but it went in a “u” shape. There were three walls of the hotel surrounding the outdoor pool area.  There was a bit of open land, a path, some benches and a play ground around the building as well. Right near the pool was our rooms. There was a sliding glass door to the outside area, making it easy to go from the pool back to our room. We spent a lot of our time over the next two weeks going back and forth from room to room playing in the pools and having fun.  A week into our trip my Uncle Denis and his family joined us. They got a room only two down from ours and we spent a lot of our time annoying our neighbors hanging out together in each other’s rooms. Every night after the pool closed we would play cards and occasionally order pizza. We had a great time spending time together. Over the two weeks we spent in paradise we spent every waking hour together. My family will never forget this trip when my family got closer than ever before.