What I Would Do If I Suddenly Fell Into a Fortune by Delaney

The practical side of my mind would save it for college, but that wouldn’t make a very interesting essay now would it? So on the impractical side I would…

Rent out a carnival, and have them set up on our 14 acres of land. Then I would invite anyone who wanted to have some fun. We would ride on rides all week. We wouldn’t have to worry about dinner since we could eat very unhealthily on fair food: hot dogs, cotton candy, funnel cakes and chicken-on-a- stick. After a week though we would all be sick to our stomachs, so we would eat salads for the next month or two.

Then once we recovered our health, I would buy a few tons of ice cream, and make the world’s BIGGEST ice cream sundae with extra cherries. I wouldn’t want to eat it all at once, so I would build a huge freezer for it. I would be famous for it and I would go down in history as ‘The Girl Who Ate Way Too Much Sugar’.

Next I would buy an elephant. I’ve always wanted a pet elephant, haven’t you? I would ride it to church and the grocery store. Little kids would laugh and I would give them all rides.

And the last thing I would do with my money, before I gave the rest away to charity, is buy a three masted ship. I would hire a crew and sail the high seas forever. Every night, I would turn my ship westward into the sunset, with the wind blowing my hair. I would smile, my hands resting comfortably on my wheel.  I would sail forever and ever in complete freedom and happiness.