Glimpses of Magic
Aiden Schoeff Age 10
We Always Find Silly and Fun Things to Do Chapter 1: A Day at the Lakehouse One hot summer day, my cousin, Jacob, and I wanted to go swimming in the lake. We ran into the house to put on our swimsuits and got ready to go swimming. I was so excited because I was at Jacob’s lake house, and I hadn’t been there in a long time. We were going to spend the day playing outside in the sunshine and having a blast. We first grabbed our towels and goggles, and we put them on the boat. My mom made me put on sunscreen first, and then my mom said I could swim. Jacob and I went on the boat, and our parents took us to the cove where we went swimming. The cove is a big piece of the lake where people park their boat and jump into the deep lake to swim. The cove has a very sandy bottom, but I have never touched it because the lake is so deep. It took about ten minutes to drive the boat there. The lake is big, so we couldn’t see the cove from their lake house. When we got to the cove, we put on our life vests, and we jumped off the boat. When we were in the water, we went swimming and splashed around. We always liked to be silly and just have fun diving into the water and laughing. Sometimes we looked for secret treasures under the water with our goggles on. We also played on the pizza box. It is a big square that floats on the water, and it is black and made of foam. Jacob and I like to stand on it and try to balance. We always laugh at each other because the pizza box is so slippery, and when we fall off, we hold hands. Our parents always take pictures of us because we act silly. After we played, Jacob and I went on the boat to go get a snack because we felt so hungry. We had cheese, crackers, chips, and fruit. It was a special day so we had pop to drink. We took our snack onto the shore and sat in the sand to eat. Then, after we were done with our snack, we got up, and we played on the sand. We built sandcastles with our sand buckets. They were all different shapes, so our castle looked pretty cool. The sand was so hot on our feet that we had to keep running back to the water and jump in to cool
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