Chatterbox: Down to Earth

What's the most awesome vacation you've ever had? My vacation this year ended August 3. We stayed at my sister's boyfriend's camp on Lake Champlain. It was beautiful. We were on the New York side, and we could see the mountains covered with mist in the distance. In the mornings, the lake would be like the surface of the moon, and one morning, the most awesome sunrise happened. It was all golden over the silver lake, and the huge cormorants were soaring around or sitting on the lake with their wings unfurled and drying them like mini dragons.

But the coolest vacation I've ever had was when I was in third grade and my family and our friends went on vacation to Belgium for two weeks. My sister was an exchange student there for a year before her senior year in high school. We first made a trip to Iceland for two days, where we swam in the hot springs that were so full of salt, your legs would just bounce up without your meaning them too. Then, we went to Belgium and stayed there for about a week in a hostel. We visited a war memorial, all my sister Margot's friends there, and tons more stuff. It was awesome. then we visited my aunts and uncles in England for three days I think, and went on a day trip to Amsterdam.

I hope I can travel lots when I grow up, and I already plan on being on exchange student. Everyone in my family has been. My sister went to Belgium and Ghana, my other sister went to Australia, and my brother is going to Australia for a semester in college on the 25th. And the awesome thing about it is, you don't have to be really wealthy, cause my family is not. We are farmers. My dream is to be a writer and make just enough money to travel to places all around the world. Especially Switzerland. I am obsessed with Switzerland. It sounds perfect to me.