Anticipating the Beach

Today I am going to the lake in the too hot to be real California.  I am excited because I really badly hope it will be a warm sunny day so I can jump into the icy water and it won’t feel cold.  I want to play in the water, play in the warm sand, and spend a fantastic lunch and dinner there.

            The water will be pretty cold, but I don’t think I’ll mind it once the air temperature gets too warm to cool off at all. We’ll look for shimmering shiny fish in the water and I’ll try to catch one and then let it go once I look at it.  The sun will sparkle off the water and make it look like it’s from a old fairy tale.  Sometimes you can actually live in fantastic fairy tales. 

            Once I get too cold in the water, I’ll get out and play in the nice warm sand.  I’ll try to make a beautiful sand castle and maybe even bury my funny brother and leave only their cute heads out.  I’ll try to build shimmery streams from the water onto the sand to make a mote around my fantastic castle.  Maybe we can even have a sand castle building contest.

            Once we’ve played in the sand for a while, it will be time to eat.  I’m hoping we’ll have sandy beach sandwiches for lunch and for dinner, I’m not sure yet, but I’m sure it will be good whatever it is.  My grandma always comes up with something delicious.  We might have snacks like graham crackers or fruit and then it will be time to go home.

            I’m crazy excited to play in the water, the warm sand, and eat good food there.  I’m sure me and my brothers will have a palm tree counting contest on the way back.  Then it will be time to go to bed.  I’ll dream about the magical and wonderful day as I fall asleep.  It’s a good way to get started on falling asleep because if you start your dream a little early, it helps you fall asleep better.  

My Day With My Cousins

My Day With My Cousins

I am in the blazing hot state of California with my very nice family. I so far I’ve had a pretty good time with my hilarious grandma.  Yesterday I went out my cousin’s new house. We watched an eclipse, played in my cousin’s huge swimming pool, and had red velvet cake and cupcakes.

            The eclipse was cool because it made every shadow a circle pattern.  My cousins said that the circle patterns looked kind of like swirly smoke.  It got kind of dark, but not too dark, like I imagine maybe Snow White’s cottage being in the early evening.  My grandma cut a small hole in a piece of cardboard and held it up to the sun so that you could see the moon in front of the sun on the wall of the house.  You could see the sun shining through the hole and a dark spot in front of it. 

            In my cousin’s big swimming pool, it was very cold but we adjusted fast.  We gave my brothers long rides in big rainbow chair floaties.   We let my brothers sit on them and we held on to the edge and swam around so that it was like they were in a big slow ship.  Sometimes my brothers squirted us with squirt guns, which was kind of fun now that I think about it, even though I yelled at them when they did it. 

            We had dessert around the pool and we could watch the eclipse while we ate.  The red velvet cake was so delicious.  I devoured it very fast.  And the cupcake frosting was a good raspberry flavor.  You could even feel the seeds with your tongue.  Mmm, that was yummy!  

            The eclipse was amazing, the swimming pool was nice, and the dessert was totally good.  My cousins and I had fun getting time to spend with each other.  It was nice seeing my uncle and aunt because we hadn’t seen them in a long time.   Next time we see them I’m sure we’ll have the same amount of fun, but maybe even better.