The Balloon Ride that they will never forget.

Author's Note: This is a piece that I did with a group of people, and in this piece, we were supposed to come up with a certain word or phrase and when they told us to say our word, we would say it and put it into our story. The words are bolded. 

The balloon rose higher and higher into the skies as the wind picked up and began to push the entire basket full of people way off course. Suddenly several sandbags fell off one side, tipping the basket, and sending the balloon drifting even faster over a forest. After what felt like hours, the wind finally slowed down and it gave the people in the balloon a chance to  land on the ground safely, everybody honestly said that they would never do that again. When they left, the balloon driver went swimming for a while. When he got back, he got some more sandbags, and he flew right back into the air. 

The next people involuntarily were pushed into the balloon. After two hours went by, the people wanted to leave, and when they landed they left. But before he went back into the air a bunch of students said that they wanted to ride, so the owner let them. The ride was really bumpy, but after a while, it got less bumpy, and it was smooth sailing from there on. Right before they were going to land, the balloon suddenly fell into a river and the balloon had popped and was stuck under the tree, so they cut it and let the river take them to wherever it was going.  They soon rode past an Italian guy, who looked at them like they were nuts. Everything was fine until the river reached a waterfall, where they quickly fell down it. 

The basket flipped over, and they went plunging down into the cold water, when the realized the water wasn't deep, they swam to shore and ran to the warmth of the sun's rays. They fell asleep and slept for what felt like hours, just like people did before the dinosaurs where extinct. When they woke up, an old man walked up to them and told them they could stay at his house, and when they asked his name, he said it was Eugene Johnson. In his house, there were pictures of Texas, and in his fridge, beside the cabbage was a repulsive piece of cheese, and he told them he would throw it out. When they all left Eugene Johnson's house, they all agreed that even though that was a messed up day, they would never forget it.