What is a place?

We were told to run some ideas through our head about places that had a significant importance in our life. I thought for a good half an hour. Once I started thinking, idea's started popping up but it took a while for the brain to start flowing with ideas. My first idea was to write about my grandma's house. I loved spending time there but the main reason was because of Christmas. We would have our whole family down and the food was just amazing. Good times, good times. I then thought about the river. My parents, brother, and I would always go to the Big Piney River by my house in Devils Elbow. We would basically spend our whole summer down there. We would bring our dog, make lunch, float down the river, lay out, relax, and just have a good time. The next option I thought about was Vacations. The first one that came to my head was last summer when we went to Gulf Shores, Alabama. It was the second time that I have been there and it was my favorite vacation. We stayed at a nice house on the beach. Then I thought about when we went to Tacoma, Washington. It was about twenty minutes from Seattle and we went to a lot of historical places and awesome aquariums. Another vacation that I thought about was Chicago. That was the funnest to look at. There was so much going on. It was fast paced and beautiful at night. I then thought about where most of our family vacations were at, Pomme De Terre. It's a river where my aunt's both have a home there and we spend a lot of our time at during the summer. We have annual float trips every July where about thirty of us in the family float and hang out on the river. It's a major trip in our family. We float for about two day's straight and camp out while the adults drink at night. After thinking about my choices, I decided my favorite place with the most memories was Christmas at my grandparent's house in Waynesville, Missouri. After thinking, I decided the most significant year was probably when I was 15 year's old. That is the place I wanted to write about.