A Missed Opportunity :: Personal Narrative Writing

A Missed OpportunityEvery time we had visited Williamsburg, my generate had always wanted to see the famous Fife and Drum Corps. Dressed in full costume of red coats and tri-corner hats, these re-enactors parade down the Duke of Gloucester Street acting their instru manpowerts in a call to arms of the towns militia. These men have always been one of the chief(prenominal) attractions of Williamsburg and one of the symbols of the colonial area. They cause only once or twice a week and by either expectant luck or fate, my mother has never rattling seen them march. The single time that she did wait for their performance to start, it was cancelled due to bad weather.It was the second day of our familys annual three-day trip to Colonial Williamsburg. We had worn out(p) the majority of the day strolling about the colonial area, and tensions were getting high. My brother, as the nerve child, always picked the most inopportune times to annoy my sister, the youngest. After several(pre nominal) near fights, my parents thought that a little separation was in order, at least until dinner. My mother suggested that we go see a program empower Dance Our Dea easing Diversion. Of course, she knew that neither one of us would superintend to go see the show, being as uninterested in colonial dancing as a cat is of swimming.Per tradition, my brother and I had primarily in the day bought colonial styled games. He had chosen a fine-looking set of Fox and Geese, while I had decided on the more exotic and unknown Mancala. All the game consisted of was a flat mount up with ivteen pits on it, two of the pits being slightly larger than the rest. The big pits were at the ends of the board, and the other twelve were in two rows between them. Those pits had four stones (or flattened marbles) in them, and the object of the game was to capture the most stones. harmonise to the little pamphlet that came with the game, Mancala required more mathematical reasoning than unblemish ed luck. We had sat under the shade of one of the numerous trees that lined the main street of the colonial section, to try out my newly bought game and to rest my tired feet. The cool breeze soothed my scorched my neck as I contemplated my next move.