Personal Narrative: A Trip To California

My close friend was going on a trip to California to get his senior pictures taken. He asked me to go and of course I said yes. The flight took off in Grand Rapids and landed in Texas. We got onto a different plane there and we were on our way to Cali. The first night we were there it was really late, so we just went to bed. The next day we walked down to the kitchen and were introduced to everyone in the house. Another family that I didn’t know about and I met them. The oldest was Turner, who became a really good friend after this adventure, and Carmen who was younger.
The house we stayed in was in an extremely nice neighborhood, and had a lot of bedrooms and bathrooms. With 3 stories, a big front yard, a backyard pool, and a hot tub, it

We we’re on the subject of Hollywood movies, and one of the parents suggested that we go see what’s up in Hollywood. Once again we piled into the van and headed for the highway for a long trip to Hollywood. We arrived and parked the van by the big mall in the center of the area we were in. We began walking down the Hollywood walk of fame. which is the street with all the famous people’s names inside a star on each individual section of the sidewalk. which was cool, and then after that we went and browsed around some stores that were selling basically anything you would need for really cheap prices. One of the stores had a lot of Longboards for sale and Turner was considering buying one, which he did end up doing. And when I told him I was unsure about buying one, he said: “Buy a Longboard or i’ll beat you up.” Which was good enough convincing for me, so I purchased it. We headed for the huge outdoor and indoor mall. we went up a few levels to about the top to a gigantic chocolate store. They had all sorts of candy and toys, and best of all. Fudge. We got to try a ton of free samples to see which flavor we liked the best, then we got a piece of it for the road. Right outside of that store was a huge glass bridge that on one side, looked over the city which looked really nice, and on the other side was the Hollywood sign in the distance. Which was the

So it had a pretty big significance. I can’t even begin to describe what the setting looked like for the pictures. There was a really nice resort on the beach with green grass that turned right into ocean front sand. There were green bushes and tall trees in the background, we took a few pictures in that area some with just himself, and others with people joining him. Then we headed down the staircase to the beach. A little ways out there were these large rocks that you could walk out onto and some on the beach as well. In one of his baby pictures he was sitting on one of the rocks looking out into the ocean, so we looked for that exact rock and recreated the picture of him now. It turned out really good and overall the trip was a huge success.
Over the course of the trip to Cali, it really opened my eyes to the world outside of Michigan because I have only been out of state a handful of times, and most of them weren’t to such a breathtaking place like California. I can truly say that traveling to a different place has really made me think about my future and made me understand that traveling is good for you and can open your eyes to different parts of the