Taking Chances

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Taking Chances

"Being adventurous is betting on the unknown, willing to jump when you don't know if someone is there to catch you."--Unknown. This is one of my favorite quotes. It says that if you want to be adventurous you have to take chances. This quote reminds me of a night I had last summer.

I was meeting up with some friends to go bowling, an exciting night planned out by Matt, my boyfriend at the time. It was already eleven o'clock when we got there. It was summer time and we lost track of what day it was, so we didn't think ahead about whether or not it would be opened and just assumed it was. Well we were wrong. So there we were, a nice summer night with nothing to do. Sitting on top of our cars we tried to think of some ideas for what we could do.

"Let's go to the swimming hole on the highlands gorge." Suggested Matt. His idea was quickly shot down by one of his friends,

"Nah, the water up there is pretty cold, and besides none of us have suits." Said Cory. Then it was my best friend, Ashley, who came up with a great idea,

"Let's go look at haunted houses." Everybody agreed on that one, a night of excitement and adventure sounded really fun. The four of us got into Matt's jeep and headed out. There we're so many abandoned houses that were supposedly haunted in the small town we lived in.

Out of all the houses we visited that night, only one scared us all the most. The story behind the first house was that a scientist had lived there a long time ago and studied wildlife. The scientist was supposed to report all his findings back to the wildlife preserve he worked for. When he stopped reporting everything back to the preserve they went up there to check things out. They never found the scientist and the house was left abandoned. Rumor has it he went completely nuts living alone and eventually killed his self in the woods nearby. Gay story, anyways we went up there to check things out. It was pretty scary looking I guess, but nothing spooky really happened so we moved on to the next house.

The second house we got to was really scary looking. It had a huge oak tree in front of it that shaded the house from the moonlight.

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