THE SWEET AS HEAVEN ADVENTURE - by Ryan Ng

When my family and I vacationed in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, we went on the Wild Tiger Adventure Buggy Ride. It was a ride with cool jeep buggies on a bumpy road that goes on top of rocky hills. While we were discussing about which of the two tours we should join, the dark chocolate colored tour guide leader put on a black garbage bag. I was so shocked! Then we decided to go with the three other tourists from England.

            We had to go in two different buggies because each buggy held only two people. My mom and I rode in an orange buggy. My dad and my brother Nicholas traveled on a green one. Both dirty buggies wobbled. After a few minutes, our orange buggy ran out of gas and our ride was delayed. The tour guide helper exchanged cars with us, so we could continue on with our adventure.

            SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH. Driving in the mud was CRAAAAZZZZZZYY. We drove up and down on bumpy muddy roads with dirty water splashing everywhere. It was so much fun bumping up and going down hills. We finally reached the end of a mountain. When my mom turned, our car spun out of control and bumped into an iron fence. The car still ran fine, but the fence tilted.

            We drove up higher into the mountain and saw an opened flat area and continued onto it. We kept on driving in circles, up and down a big crater. Finally, we took a break drinking my favorite sodas – Coke and Fanta. We then drove to the hut and rinsed ourselves in water because all the mushy mud from the day before splashed on bags and clothes.

            The small wooden hut turned out to be the refreshment center. Oh, yeah! There, a friendly man explained how to make hot chocolate from cocoa beans. Then the tour guides let us try some in little cups; they were as sweet as heaven. There was also a wine called Mama Juana, my mom didn’t like the name. I wanted to buy the hot chocolate spices, but my parents refused to because they thought the hot chocolate tasted the same. But I disagreed.

After we returned the buggies to the main station, I saw the tour guide leader took off his garbage bag and washed it. “OOOO, now I know why he wore the garbage bag.”