30th July 2004, 6:54 AM
Quote:I don't hate beach (and I mean on the ocean, not lakes... we don't go to lakes for vacation) vacations, but you can only be in the water for so long (even taking it for granted that you went somewhere with relatively warm water)... and I don't love swimming. Being in the water is dull unless other people are there too do do things with (our yearly vacations are always with some relatives, but even so...). I don't love swimming. And really, you don't SWIM much in the ocean. You stand in the water and stuff, but don't swim that much unless there are no waves, I'd say.
I went to the beach before [Hunting Island, South Caronlina] and we stayed at my relatives' house. With electricity. And electrical sockets. For charging batteries. Anyway, I really loved playing around on the beach and floating around in the ocean while I got tossed around by the waves. It's probably because it was the first time I'd ever been to the ocean and because the biggest body of water you see in southern Oklahoma is a really shallow river and sometimes a lake.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.