A Bear Scare

by Melissa

Last year, I decided to go camping and berry picking for my birthday, which is on August 21. My grandma and grandpa were able to come with me and my family. They have a camper. I was only allowed to bring two friends because of our tent space.

It took us four hours to get to the camping spot. After everything was set up, we went looking for berries. When we found a patch of berries, we got our lunch and headed up a hill to the berry patch. My father warned us about bears and said to keep our eyes open. I was a little scared.

I was picking berries when I suddenly heard a growl! It sounded like a bear. I started screaming when I heard it again!! Finally I realized that it was only the berries rolling along the bottom of my bucket, making a growling noise. I felt so much better.

As we were driving back to the campground it started raining. We saw a double rainbow. It was really pretty. It turned out that the rain was the start of a storm. The rainstorm only lasted about fifteen minutes.

My mom made berry pancakes for breakfast the next morning. Then we packed up and went home with lots of berries of all types.