Journal #4

Every year, my family and I try to make a voyage to Florida.  The drive from my house, which is123 ABC Street to Seagrove, Florida takes fourteen hours.  I figured you would not want to know my real address because I would rather not have creeps show up at my doorstep.  Do not worry, you are not a creep.  Back to Florida because that is what I am supposed to write about.    In my family, there are six people.  I have my two parents and I have three siblings.  You can understand that we would need a bigger vehicle to fit all of out suitcases and bodies.  My family drives a white Toyota Sienna because it fits all six of us and there is a built in DVD player.  That accessory comes in handy when we go on long road trips.  For the fourteen hour drive,my siblings and I watch a lot of movies.  If a movie is two hours, you can watch a total of seven movies.  That is a lot of movies!  

When we do leave for Florida, we leave early in the morning so we can beat the morning traffic.  Instead of stopping for lunch and breakfast, my mom had the good idea to pack both meals.  For breakfast, we usually have store bought donuts and water or orange juice.  Once lunch rolls around, we get out the chips and sandwiches.  Yummy, I love sandwiches.  Of all the years, we have been to Florida, we do not like to drive all fourteen hours in one day so we break it up.  Most of the time we stop in either Montgomery, Alabama or Birmingham, Alabama.  I love both of those cities because they are so different from Springfield, Illinois.  You can walk down the streets and see such a wide variety of people.  The next morning, we wake up and pack up the van after we have breakfast.  It takes about three more hours to get to our house in Seagrove, Florida.  As we get closer and closer to our destination, we get antsy and just want to be there.  All the palm trees and ocean views are relaxing and exciting at the same time.  Pulling up to our house and running out onto the beach makes the fourteen hour drive worth while. (: