Adventure of the Summer

    We stared out the window into the bright morning sky lost in thought.  There was nothing to do on the steaming summer day.  I looked over to Kailey, my strawberry blonde, spunky friend, and she just shrugged her shoulders.  I let out a big sigh and fell back down on the couch.  Reruns had been going on all day and that was all we had to watch.  My parents were at work and our active, crazy brothers were no where to be found.  Which means we were home alone and stuck there.  What a dull summer day.
    Kailey came and sat down by me and we decided there really was nothing to do today.  It was nearing the end of summer so her and I have done everything possible that a kid could think of, or so we thought.
    I jumped up from the couch and said, “Guess what! We can build a bigger and better fort than our brothers had done for us!”  She thought it was a great idea.  We walked around outside looking for every possible place that we could start a fort. 
    There seemed to be no place that would work for us when Kailey finally said, “Hey, how about we just do it in that huge tree right next to your house?!”  I thought that was a splendid idea, because then we would be close to the house for all the supplies we would be needing.
    As we went out to an old barn to get some boards for climbing purposes we came upon what seemed to be just a massive pile of junk.  Well, as young kids we became very curious and decided to go and search to see what kind of interesting objects we could find.  As we began to dig deeper and deeper into this pile we started to discover old plates, cups, tea pots, and other old things.  We thought these things were kind of cute and interesting so Kailey found an old bucket and we started to fill it.
    We gathered up our bucket of treasures and headed back to our soon to be fort.   By this time we had pretty much filled up our morning and decided to head in for our lunch.  Kailey decided we were going to eat mac ‘n cheese, hot dogs, and pickles, which happens to be her favorite meal.  Since we were not cooks it was also the perfect meal to make.
    As Kailey looked onto my backyard she suddenly exclaimed, “The four wheeler!”
    “Huh?” I replied concentrating on the mac ‘n cheese.
    “We can use the four wheeler to get more things since this happens to be taking forever to haul them over here!”
    “Kailey! That is a wonderful idea! Let’s quickly eat so we can get to work!” I proclaimed.
    After lunch we set out towards the four wheeler.  I easily started it up and we headed back to the pile of junk to find more items.  As we got off the four wheeler and began to approach the pile we noticed that our legs were extremely itching.  We had just walked through a batch of poison ivy!  Then, we got covered in cockle burs, what luck!  They were all over our hair, which happens to be the worst place to get them.  We were getting discouraged and mad and just wanted to head back in.  We were about to leave when we realized, who cares!  Kailey and I wanted an amazing fort so we would do anything thing to get it!  We pressed on!
    Kailey announced that we should quickly trek over to our brothers fort to spy and see all the things they have done so we could out do them.  As we rode over there to check it out we knew we have a lot of work to do to be better.  We surveyed the site and had seen many cool things like a TV, a couch, chairs, and a ton of other things.  This was going to be hard.
    Now we went in and grabbed a few interesting things.  We loaded them onto the four wheeler and headed back.  It was hard to get all our stuff up into the tree.  Though we happen to be very smart and creative girls and hooked up a little bucket and rope so that we could pull all the stuff up way high in the tree! 
    In order to get that high up in the tree we built steps for ourselves.  We couldn’t put the steps all the way up the tree, because that is what branches are for.  Since branches get smaller near the top of the tree we couldn’t climb on them as well or they could break.  I thought of things we could do to fix that and we decided to tie the rope way up so we could climb up on that.
    It was beginning to be late afternoon.  Kailey decided it was time for a snack, so we went indoors and grabbed an ice cream treat.  We thought about it and thought why not eat it in our tree so we can watch the cars go by.  We got up to a decently high branch, but we couldn't go all the way to the top or the branch would be to small to support us both.
    As we sat there in the warm summer day we thought life couldn’t get better than this.  We just finished our treat and wanted to relax a little.  All of the sudden we heard a tiny crack.  I glanced over at Kailey, her eyes wide opened and then she started falling down.  I had one of my hands on the branch above and I was hanging there by one hand.  I did not realize what had really just happen, but then my hand slipped and I too went down.  As I lay there in pain I looked over at Kailey.  She had a lot of scratches and I only had a couple.  We got off easy on that one.  We started to laugh and noticed that actually that was kind of exciting.  A day well spent indeed.
    Life is an adventure.  Go out and find your life adventure.  You will discover many fantastic surprises.  Be courageous and have fun.  Use your creativity and imagination to make your day a great one.  Be safe though!  You should probably make sure a parent is around if you are planning to go in a tree and happen to fall.  Have fun!