We were visiting Hilton Head beach after eating some lunch at a local place (pretty decent food, but not great). We didn't have bathing suits and the water was freezing so I didn't expect to get into the water. We walked through different shops when Alyssa saw sand dollars for sale (4 bucks a pop!! wow expensive) so she told me we could catch ones as big as our palm ourselves by going into the ocean, wriggling our toes and when I felt something roundish to grab with my toes and pick it out of the water. I said that I can't wait till we get a chance to do that this summer because Alyssa and I were borderline sick from all the stress, late nights and driving around. We left the store and walked down the paths to the beach. It was beautiful! The air was nice and crisp with fog everywhere. The beach had a decent number of people on it (in fact a Canadian guy offered to take our picture with my camera when he saw us taking the picture ourselves), but it was too crowded. I couldn't see anyone in the water even though a few people had suits on.
.... This was when Alyssa got that determined look in her eyes (people who know her know what I am talking about haha) and decided that we were going to get ourselves some sand dollars as souvenirs. I laughed but I love doing random crazy things too so we rolled up our pants (her skirt) to run into the ocean.... the freezing... freezing ocean as it turned out. I tried to follow her direction with my toes but after about twenty seconds I couldn't feel my feet so we ran out, splashing the whole way through!
Our first attempt was unsuccessful and people were already looking at us like we were crazy but that didn't dissuade us from trying again!! We ran back in but sadly suffered the same fate as the first time. We finally decided to just buy a sand dollar to remember our attempt then attempt to dry off before driving back to her Grandparent's house.
This summer the sand dollars will be ours! :D
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| on the beach :) |
