Today was the day we went on a family trip on our boat like we do every year. My dad was calling me and my older brother Jordan to hurry up and get ready to leave. The trip was pretty long, it took 2 hours to get there. Around 1 hour and 50 minutes later, I could see our destination. We got out of the car and got the boat ready to get into the water. Once the boat was in the water, we walked over to the dock and got into the boat. As soon as we got in the boat, Jordan went over to the mini fridge to get some food, my dad went to steer the boat, and I went over to the little bed and sat down. All our trips on the boat were usually the same, boring and uneventful for me and Jordan but my dad always insisted we go every year to keep the family together, ever since mom died. Jordan and I were playing cards when all of a sudden we heard some loud booming sounds and the boat came to a quick stop. I heard my dad moaning about forgetting to put more gas into the boat but he calmed down when he remembered there was a blow up raft for emergencies. We got the raft and the pump and tried to fill it up with air as fast as possible. I was panicking because I thought the boat might sink. When the raft was finally pumped up, we put it into the water and jumped in. Dad grabbed four paddles before he got in and we started to row towards a little island that we could see in the distance. It was hard to row because the water was so wavy but I could feel that we were slowly getting closer to the island. We were rowing for around 10 minutes when I saw something moving around in the water. I started screaming when I saw a fin rising above the water. Dad and Jordan were telling me to calm down and tell them what had happened. when I pointed to the water, 2 more sharks rose above the water and surrounded our raft. My dad started to panick and Jordan was trying not to freak out. Then all of a sudden, my dad grabbed one of the paddles and started to hit one of the sharks in the head. Jordan and I watching what my was doing, realized we should help and grabbed some paddles and started to hit the other sharks. We kept hitting them and they finally started to swim away. We were glad that they didn't leave a hole in our raft and started to celebrate. After our little celebration, we kept rowing towards the little island. When we got to our destination, we looked around to see if there was anyone or anything, but it was totally deserted. When there was no hope whatsoever for somebody to save us, we went over to the raft to see if there was any food in the boat. We found some beef jerky, 3 water bottles and a packet of gum but that was it. I thought there was no way we were going to be saved when Jordan was shouting about some helicopter coming our way. We waved our arms and the helicopter and the helicopter was coming closer towards us. When the helicopter landed, two men came out and they told us that they were on their way to a buisness trip when they saw us waving our arms and came over to see what was wrong. They offered to give us a ride back home so we gladly took their offer. After the 2 hour helicopter ride, we finally got home. We thanked the men and they left to go to their buissness trip. After they left, I looked over to my dad and said, "So, when's our next trip?"