Last year, on the third of November, it was my birthday and I had just entered the life of teenhood. I was on top of the world as each and every moment throughout the day brought about more happiness and excitement for me. I was over the moon appreciative of all the gifts I had received and the people who were around me to celebrate this special occasion in my life. At noon, my parents called me over to give me a major eye-opener for the day. I was blindfolded and escorted to the living room, and as I removed the piece of fabric tied to my face…… my eyes slowly adapted to the brightness of the room, and I was a bolt from the blue as my friends surrounded me and screamed "SURPRISE", immediately, they showered me with silly string and confetti .
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I jumped out of my skin as I was never expecting my friends to be there that weekend, even some who I hadn't seen for ages. I was amazed to see them and I pondered about how my parents had contacted all of them without my knowledge. A split second later, my mom walked into the room with my tremendous 2 tiered Unicorn cake with sparkling candles surrounding it. As soon as I cut the cake, my friends grasped my hands and pulled me, to open my gifts, and at that moment it seemed to me as if they were more excited to open the gifts than I was. I received many gifts, and they were all so thoughtful, but there was one which caught my eye, it was an unusually large box and when I carried it, expecting it to be heavy, it weighed light as a feather…… When I opened it, there was another box inside, and another one and another one and it seemed to be like those nesting dolls. At last, in the final box, there was an envelope, which to my surprise had 15, all-day passes to my favorite amusement park, IMG.
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An hour later, we finally reached the park, we got off our spectacular ride, grabbed our tickets and entered the park. The only fitting description for the phenomenal place was "AMAZING". The place itself was astonishing, everything seemed as if it was coming to life, it was so attractive that I could sit there and glance at it for days. Everywhere people were moving enthusiastically from one ride then onto the next, slow music played in the background with screams of laughter from every direction. To me, the most eye-catching was the rollercoaster, even though I had acrophobia, in other words, the fear of heights. I was just bewildered by the way it looped in and out of nowhere and ran up and down and spun around in a crazy manner. We were all confused on what to do first as there were so many options, but then we chose to go on the spider-man rollercoaster.
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Soon, we all queued up for the ride and to our luck we all got to go on the
ride, shortly, we all were seated on the ride and we buckled up. As the bell rang for the ride to begin, we all held firmly onto the safety bars as if we wereholding on for our lives. The next few minutes were a blur of screams, the wind whizzing through our hair, laughter and tightly closed eyes. As the ride came to an end, we descended with shaky knees and dizzy heads but with faces full of broad smiles, some of us were delighted that the ride was over but some of us, just wanted to go on it, over and over again and that was me. After that ride, i felt as if i had overcome my fear of heights. |
As we came down from the ride, all feeling nauseous, I dropped my purse, and someone picked it up for me. The icing on my cake for me that day was that the person I bumped into, to my awe was one of my favorite celebrities, my role model, it was Lilly Singh, and I was spellbound to see her……
As soon I glanced at her, I started blabbering. I was not in my senses. Immediately, I started tearing up as it had always been my dream to see her, as she started talking to me, and as I came back to reality, I told her that she was my all-time favorite youtuber and that since her concert in Dubai was during my birthday week, my parents had tried getting me tickets to her show as a gift but the tickets had sold out. A few seconds after I spoke, she grabbed into her backpack and handed over to me 2 tickets saying "This is yours", as soon as I saw them, it felt as if I was going to faint in astonishment, it was tickets to her show that weekend. Wiping the tears of joy off my face, I embraced her and appreciated her for making my day so much more special than it already was. |
Throughout the day, we spent our time at the theme park, going on spine-chilling and nerve-racking roller coasters to overwhelming 4D rides. Late in the evening, when the park was about to close we left the place, with sorrow in our eyes as it was hard to say goodbye. Although it was hard to leave, we were all delighted, as my dad then took us to my favorite restaurant and we were all starving as when the food arrived, we pounced onto the food, as if we were leaping onto our prey. Those twenty-four hours, were the most unforgettable and joyful hours my life, the memories that were made and the presents I received totally made it one of the outstanding, best birthdays, I have ever had.
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