Five Day Delay

By Che walling

The last trip we stayed at an apartment that was right in front of a cool place where there was a market. Around the door was the name of the place but I don’t remember what is was called; also, above the doorway there were these little doors that at 12:00 would open and a song would play. As I recall when we stayed there, we had a good time. Most unfortunately our boat was delayed for some reason, so we had to find a place to stay for the time being. Mom was looking for some where to stay and she found the exact same place we stayed when we left last summer.  We had a little drive to get to our destination. I think we stayed there for five days (I am not completely sure) but in those five days, we explored Roman ruins, saw giants, and walked to many places that were amazing to see. I had my scooter, and Gherty and Quinn had their toe-crushing rip sticks (which by the way I had to learn that from horrible experience). One time we were looking for a place to eat and we found something that we did not expect at all. Dad wanted to check out a Japanese restaurant that was surrounded with big, small, and medium fish tanks.

There was clown fish, puffer fish, an eel, koi fish, angel fish, a big catfish, whatever fish Dory is from Finding Nemo, etc. Mom was convinced it was a restaurant where they plucked fish out of their tanks and cooked them, but Dad disagreed with Mom’s opinion. What a sad life for a fish to know you have been caught and soon it will be your time to join the fish in fishy heaven. Never seeing the world, never seeing the other fishes that, that sad unfortunate fish will never see. That is how nature works. And that’s how a cookie crumbles.  There was a clown fish stuck in a glass tube, which now that I think about it reminds me of Finding Nemo when he escaped. We asked someone about the stuck fish and they said he can get in and out of the glass tube. Mom and Dad had a few more drinks, and we were bored watching them sip and went outside in the night to play. Lucky for us there was a playground right in front of the restaurant. We had fun ,but all fun must come to a end and soon we had to go.

One of those days, we were walking along a sidewalk and we stumbled into a tiny party with people that were playing trumpets, and other instruments of the sorts. There was a slanted hill that we played on while Mom and Dad danced to the music. We walked some more, and we passed a church that was super big and inside there were chapels with gold leaf and all other sorts of amazing things. We lit some candles for our loved ones. We stayed there for a while, listening to the priest talking. The next couple days were basically the same routine, and we had a ton of fun exploring, and seeing new places. There were the good times and the bad times, but all in all we had a lot of fun and enjoyed spending time together.