Let's go to the beach beach

Bonnie nearly sprinted out of the bus when they’d arrived!

Ever since winter, she’d been dreaming about a chance to go visit the beach again - and now that it was summertime, it was just warm enough to head on over there!

She didn’t even know where to begin - would she start off with building a huge sandcastle? Or maybe go for a swim? Oooh, she could also grab some seashells…!

All of her choices were making her head spin! She promised herself that she wouldn’t let herself become paralyzed with choices, but… she almost couldn’t help it!

She took a deep breath and tried to steady herself. She wouldn’t let herself not do anything just because she wanted to do everything! She made a promise to herself, and she was going to follow through on it, by golly!

She began to make a mental plan. First, she’d let herself splash around a little - get a little bit of almost-swimming in. After that, she could make a few sand castles, and if she just happened to find a few seashells, that’d be great!

She gave a small nod, and ran over to the water to start splashing around! But once she got there - she was met with a surprise!

Bhrr! The water was super cold!

She jumped backwards - that was shocking! Maybe she should save swimming for another time… on a hotter day, maybe? That would probably be best!

So instead, she moved over towards the sand - she hadn’t brought any pail or shovels, but she wouldn’t let that stop her! You can build a good sandcastle without either of those things as long as you had the spirit!

She started off by tracing a small circle in the sand - that was going to become her moat! Then, she’d start building things up in the center of it…

But— oh?

A shell! Right where she started to dig! This would be a great decoration for her castle! She began to pick it up, but then…

Oh, it started wiggling! She giggled as she let it go. It was a hermit crab! How cute! She smiled as she let it walk on away. She would have let it live in the castle she was about to build, but it didn’t seem to want that - it was probably scared of her. Too bad!

She still gave it a small wave as it skittered away. Goodbye, hermit crab friend!

She went back to building her castle, glad that she was at least able to see a fun little friend on this adventure.