The Car Ride To New York City 

On Thanksgiving break, I went on a trip to New York City. It's been a long time since I've last been there. We went on this vacation because my family likes touring and leaving home to go certain places. The car ride was long and boring, and I wanted to have some fun. I didn't have anything to play with. To help entertain me, my Mom and Dad started telling stories about their childhood and our family history. We were talking about how many boyfriends my mom had before she immigrated here. One of the boyfriends that she had she told me about was that a boy that teased her from middle school all the way through high school and when it was time for high school graduation, he declared his love for her. That was a real love story! Then my dad told us about how back then, there were people called Pagans who didn't believe in Jesus Christ. They liked the presents better instead of celebrating the true meaning of Christmas. I liked that story the most. My family then thought about going to the parks in New York where they had big christmas trees with lots of decorations on them. I really liked those kinds of trees. After driving two and a half-hours in the car, we stopped in Connecticut at a rest stop. At the rest stop, we had McDonald's food. I ordered a sub with fries which I like. There was a stuffed animal machine there and I won a minion! I named him Steve. I was very happy. After my family left the rest stop, we passed through the last city before New York. I think it's called Stanford which is in Connecticut. In the car, I played the license plate game. It was basically a game where you spot license plates and you keep track of them. The only license plates I spotted were from New England which I thought was strange since it was New York and a lot of people from different states and countries go there.Thirty minutes later, I looked out the window. My family had finally arrived in New York.