Today I got to enjoy a absolutely gorgeous time on the beach with my cousins. It's kind of interesting, because there's a fairly big age difference. There's Elijah (19), me (17), Mikayla (11), Irene (8), and Chloe (6). Chloe, and I wave-jumped for a while. In other words, as the waves rolled in to shore, we would jump over them. When she deemed the waves too small, she would tug me in deeper. If the waves got bigger, she would run screaming for shore. Her giggles are really contagious.
When I wasn't wave-jumping with her, Mikayla and I were attempting to figure out how to make a castle moat hold water. She got creative and started using kelp to line the moat, but even that only minimally slowed the water loss. But we had fun with it anyways. During our toils, we even found a small sand crab!
Finally, we decided the moat was a lost cause. So we did cartwheels, back walkovers, and round-offs in the shallow water. (Clarification: I did cartwheels, while Mikayla, my superstar gymnast, did the walkovers and round-offs.) Then, I'm not sure how it started, but somehow we ended up in a mud war. We alternated between throwing wet sand at each other and splashing each other with the ocean water. It was a blast!
So I got to enjoy being a carefree kid for a while longer. I know that as I'm moving on in life, I'm going to have to start making decisions on my own and being responsible. With that in mind, I've lived this summer acting as much like a kid as possible. So sometimes it's good to loosen up and act like a kid!
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