of the tennis ball, it landed fair, Ugine dashed toward the ball, but it was just out of reach.
“ Yes!” I screamed as I dropped to the ground triumphantly. I had never felt more victorious in my life.
Then it was back to reality. I slowly emerged from my beauty sleep and my eyes peered open. All my sheets had been kicked off while I was sleeping, that’ s a natural habit of mine. But then I realized I had a championship to go to and I became extremely worried because I didn’ t wake up to the alarm I set. I quickly checked the clock and...
“ OH MY GOSH! EVERYBODY WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!” I screamed so the whole hotel could hear me. But, I didn’ t care because it was 9:12! I dashed around the room shaking my whole family awake.
“ We got to go!” I informed my parents,“ It’ s 9:10!”
After glancing at the clock in disbelief, my mother said,“ Oh, geez you’ re right how did this happen?”
“ We must of slept through our alarms,” I replied.
“ Sorry Tommy,” said my dad.“ If we leave now,” Rosie suggested,“ maybe we could catch the
end of the match.”
“ Yeah,” we all agreed. Quickly, we changed out of our pajamas and into our day clothes, but we had to wait for Rosie because she always has to be looking stylish. Then with the tickets in my mom’ s purse, we scurried out of our room, and ran down the stairs, since we thought it was quicker than the elevator. When we made our way through the lobby, we dashed to our car in the parking lot and hopped in. My dad took the keys out of his pocket, started the car, and we drove off.
“ Alright it’ s nine-thirty and we are half an hour away, so maybe we can catch the end of the match,” said my dad.
“ Ok,” I said,“ pedal to the metal!” We were driving along for about five minutes when Rosie decided to do her nails. She always has to look like a star. Her set of nail polish was close by, so she picked it up and decided paint her nails purple and green, her two favorite colors. In the middle of her painting my dad ran over a huge pothole and we were