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I was about to go play in the river so I put on my bathing suit. It was red, my favorite color. I also grabbed my little tiny fish net so that I could catch some minnows. I started to walk out to the river, hearing and seeing other children play. Walking out to the river, I felt the soft sand between my toes and I could see schools of minnows. I was definitely ready to play. I was feeling the urge to pull myself into the river further and further but then I remembered why I had brought that fishnet outside. I was going to catch a minnow. 

I didn't have a thing to put the minnows I caught into so I asked my sister if I could borrow her cup to store my minnows in. I saw big huge schools of minnows passing me, so the next one that came by, I got my net ready. I swiped my net through the water and through the big school of minnows. I looked inside my net and had found that I had caught six minnows. I held the net in my hand and grabbed my cup. I took the cup, scooping some sand and water into the cup. I waited for the water and sand to settle.Then put the minnows into the cup. They were squirming all over the place.

As I was staring at my minnow that I caught, my sister splashed me with water. I got mad and splashed back and it turned into a battle. After it got all crazy, my brother joined in and it got worse, so I finally gave the biggest splash I had in me and splashed my brother and sister as hard as I could. But it was not over. My brother and sister got really mad because it got in their eyes.Then they told on me. I had to sit out of the river for a few minutes even though my sister was the one who started the whole thing. 

Once I got to get  back into the river the splash fight was over. So I took a cup from inside the camper. I found some really smooth rocks in the river. Once I found those rocks, I put them in the cup so that I could use them for rock painting. I thought the  two really smooth ones were the best ones because they were the easiest to paint. As I was walking around trying to find some more good rocks to paint, my brother came over and just knocked the cup out of my hand and walked away like nothing even happened. Then my sister came over and stole all the rocks that had just fallen out of my hands. So I had to get even more rocks that were not as good as the ones I had before.

Finally, I decided to just give up on finding rocks and do something else. I chose to see if I could walk across the whole river without falling. I started to walk across the river when suddenly there were people tubing down the river. I had no idea what I was supposed to do other than run. Since I didn't know what else to do other than run, I just ran across the river. I heard my mom's voice yelling for me to come back. I didn't listen and just kept on running. I finally got to the other side and let the tubing people go by. But then I realized that I was on the complete other side of the river away from my family, so I had to go all the way back to the other side of the river. I was so relieved to be back with my family. 

Since I was back with my family, I went ahead and started playing in the river again and told myself that I was never going to go across the river ever again. I was starting to play in the river when suddenly I found a huge rock and everyone knows what I would do. I stood on it so I started to climb up the rock. It was kinda big. It was like a medium rock but it was big enough to where I had to climb it.I finally got onto the top of the rock. I was queen of the river until it started rocking. I started to make my way back down when suddenly I slipped. I fell straight onto the rocks. It was like a slide but it hurt really bad. I had a huge bruise on my thigh. But I was ok. I didn't tell anyone until the end of our trip, but no one noticed until then.

However, there was one person who did notice. There was a girl coming right towards me. She helped me up and asked if I was ok. I said I was fine, which I was, and after that we became friends. Her name was Riley. She had dark brown hair, blue eyes, and a watermelon bathing suit on. She was really nice, but we only got to talk for about ten minutes before I had to go in. After I went in, I said to myself that that was the best trip I had ever gone on.  

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