The Art of a Splash War

 This is a recount of a major event in my holiday enjoy.

On Wednesday I woke up before anyone else in my house with great reason to do so. Since the penultimate week of school my family have been planning to go out of town. The original place we were going to go was Napier. The main reason being that there was a water park there called Splash Planet.

But that was not really the reason why I woke up so early the real reason was to go to the Library. So on the first Monday of the school holidays I went to the local library to feed my latest book fixation, Des Hunt books. As I got my book I noticed a piece of paper with a black background filled with bright red rockets and little yellow stars. On it was a date, and it had two arts and craft activities. The activities were a rocket corner bookmark and a melted crayon planet. It piqued my interest. Both of them were on a Wednesday.

So on Wednesday I woke up to a cloudy and brilliant blue sky. I set out by bike to the Library where I was surprised to find out that it was only two people doing the D.I.Y. I was also pleasantly surprised to find out that we would also be doing origami. After the rocket corner bookmark D.I.Y session I went home to find that my family was not even ready for the trip yet. 

After forty-five minutes of getting ready, we were out of the house and on the open road. We took the Kerikeri route (the longest way) because the Mangamuka route (the shortest route) was closed due to landfalls. The scenery through the was Mangamuka was usually the best but there were still some excellent sites at state highway 10. There were cows with white skin and galaxy-like black spots grazing on green grass, mooing merrily without a care in the world. 

But there was one thing that made that trip bad: my employment dilemma. The dilemma I asked myself was what I wanted to be when I grew up and what if I failed to get there. When I wasn't thinking about it I was sleeping and I was asleep more times than I was awake, lucky me.

When we got to Whangarei we immediately parked at the Whangarei Aquatic Center which was the number one thing me and my sister Evania wanted to do. I wanted to go there to go on the water slides but sadly they were closed. When we got to the pools I quickly changed and then speedily stroded to the main pool. Where I greeted the others I then put my goggles on my head  and my swim bag in a cubby. The water in the pools was a clear crystal blue. I then went to the heated kiddie pool. I had some complications with my goggles so I gave them to my dad and then hopped into the cold big kids pool then I swam to the whirlpool pool only to get punched in the face. 

It happened very suddenly. I was wading through the clear blue water heading to the whirlpool pool when I reached the pool. I was then blinded by the splash of water in my eyes then I felt the heavy and powerful fist in my face. I then fell back. An 11 year old girl had punched me in the face and in defence I splashed her with water. She went ballistic and she said that you should not hurt girls and started smacking me with water and telling her siblings to do the same. So in the spirit of war I splashed them to clash with their splashing so that I would not be blinded by the water. Which obviously made her combust. She yelled at me “how dare you hit me and my young siblings who do you think you are? I am only 9 ! ” Yeah she lied about her age. She then slapped me and waded away. 

Later I went to the spa pool where to my luck she and her annoying siblings were there and as soon as I got in she told me to “get the heck out” she swore at me. She was incredibly rude and of course I denied her rude request. So then they started splashing me water again then to my fortunately I heard a voice saying to them stop. They poked their tongue out at me and then swam out. The person that spoke was a boy named Aston. He and I played for the next hour or so together. Soon me and my family left. On the way to our friend's house which we were going to stay at, I had a realisation of how lucky I am to have two great parents that care for me. I then went on to have a good holiday, well mostly good because the next day I hurt both of my wrists but otherwise it was a great holiday.