My Day With My Cousins

My Day With My Cousins

I am in the blazing hot state of California with my very nice family. I so far I’ve had a pretty good time with my hilarious grandma.  Yesterday I went out my cousin’s new house. We watched an eclipse, played in my cousin’s huge swimming pool, and had red velvet cake and cupcakes.

            The eclipse was cool because it made every shadow a circle pattern.  My cousins said that the circle patterns looked kind of like swirly smoke.  It got kind of dark, but not too dark, like I imagine maybe Snow White’s cottage being in the early evening.  My grandma cut a small hole in a piece of cardboard and held it up to the sun so that you could see the moon in front of the sun on the wall of the house.  You could see the sun shining through the hole and a dark spot in front of it. 

            In my cousin’s big swimming pool, it was very cold but we adjusted fast.  We gave my brothers long rides in big rainbow chair floaties.   We let my brothers sit on them and we held on to the edge and swam around so that it was like they were in a big slow ship.  Sometimes my brothers squirted us with squirt guns, which was kind of fun now that I think about it, even though I yelled at them when they did it. 

            We had dessert around the pool and we could watch the eclipse while we ate.  The red velvet cake was so delicious.  I devoured it very fast.  And the cupcake frosting was a good raspberry flavor.  You could even feel the seeds with your tongue.  Mmm, that was yummy!  

            The eclipse was amazing, the swimming pool was nice, and the dessert was totally good.  My cousins and I had fun getting time to spend with each other.  It was nice seeing my uncle and aunt because we hadn’t seen them in a long time.   Next time we see them I’m sure we’ll have the same amount of fun, but maybe even better.