My dad and I decided to head down to the beach for a day or so this past summer.  After being in the car for an hour and a half, I start to see glimpses of the water.  About 30 minutes later we arrived at our beach house and unpacked, then I helped my dad turn the water on at the meter, and I went down to the beach.  There I saw hundreds of little blue things that looked a lot like jellyfish, but we weren’t quite sure what they were.  They had flat disc-like bodies with little blue tentacles coming off of them in all directions.  If one had floated away in the water then you could see a blue stain on the sand where it had been.  We didn’t want to swim with them so we checked the water to see if they were floating around, and they were so we decided not to swim.

For the rest of the day I collected little periwinkles.  Those are the little colorful shells that bury themselves in the sand when the tide washes away.  We made sand castles with moats, sand walls surrounding them to block the water.

I took a walk with my dad at sunset, saw some dolphins, then headed up to our house for some dinner.  We played some cards and watched some things on TV.

The next morning, we had some breakfast and headed to the beach again.  Those blue things were still there but we got in the water, but only up to our knees.  Since we had to drive to pick up my sister and her friend, Alex, from Gainesville, we had to pack up and get on the road.