Long story short, I ended packing my bags and heading down
there with them. It was the summer before my eighth grade year. We went to the
beach one day but it was about to storm so we only got to stay for a few
minutes before the clouds rolled and turned the sky an eerie color.
We returned to the beach two days later. We stopped by a
discount beach store before we hit the sand to buy a couple of boogie boards to
play with in the waves. My two cousins and I played in the water for a while,
taking turns on the boogie board. Within a couple of hours we were thoroughly
exhausted and laid down on the sand to rest. My great uncle had the genius idea
to bury us in the sand and the three of us agreed to do it. After we were
covered from neck to toe, they shoved the boogie boards under our heads and
told us to pretend we were sleeping for the picture.
It started off as an amazing day at the beach. Well at least up until I fell asleep in the sand. My brother and sister did the same as you can see. While asleep I kept getting this cold sensation of the fact that the only thing that was cold around me was the sand. I didn’t think anyone would bother me while I was asleep, but man could I have been more wrong. By the time I woke up, I had been covered in sand from shoulder to toe, I tried to wiggle out of it, but it was just too much for me to even handle. I struggled with it for about five minutes then finally gave up, and decided to drift off back to sleep. The second time I woke up my brother and sister were also covered like I was and I knew by the end of the day we would all be uncovered, or at least I hoped that would have happened, because I don’t like the feeling of being trapped like a rat.
ReplyDeleteLaura was excited to go to the beach. Her and her family had stayed the whole month in Florida but they never went to the beach. Laura and her sisters were looking forward to the beach and had their bathing suit already prepared. It was the last week in the hot sun on one of the hottest day in Florida. Laura and her sister had been waiting for this the whole month. To Laura, the beach was paradise. She and her sisters were bouncing in their seat in the car all the way to the beach site. Once they reached the beach, Laura and her sister rushed out of the car and dashed to the changing room and quickly put on their bathing suit and went running to the water. The feel of the salty crystal sea green water was so cold and blissful, Laura knew she wanted to jump into the water and swim to her heart’s content. Laura did just that and her and her sister splashed water to each other not noticing that they were disturbing the underwater sea creatures living environment.
ReplyDelete– so they are obviously on a beach and they are all covered in sand form the neck down. I believe that the little girl on the far left was the instigator on the whole thing. I think she thought it would be funny to cover the Laura and her other cousin in sand. Sadly they let her do it to her at first while they were awake. Laura was probably first and she sat and helped cover her feet and then laid down to allow them to cover the rest of her body helping where she could. Then the kid on the right was next and he just let the little do all the work. Once he was covered the little girl laid in exhaustion and got an adult to cover her up but judging by the imprints on the sand the adult probably sat on the poor little girl and they thought it would be funny to pretend to be asleep.
ReplyDeleteLaura: My family had been at the beach all day and we were slowly wearing down and getting tired. My brother, my sister, and I fell asleep. Josh, my brother, had the good idea of putting boogie boards under our heads like pillows. Maggie, my sister, couldn’t find the other one so she scooted her chair up to use as a pillow. Once we fell asleep we were completely out cold. Our parents thought it would be funny if they buried us in the sand so they did. When we woke up the sand was up to our chins. At first we started to freak out because we didn’t remember we were at the beach, all we knew was that something heavy was holding us down. We sat up and sand poured off of us like it was raining cats and dogs. We had sand in places that was not comfortable at all. Although we were covered in sand we had a fun day.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a nice day in Costa Rico and being a foreigner has its perks at the beach. T’was a nice day at the beach to be with loving family and the blazing sun for a Mexican tan. It was a long flight to Latin America and this was the time she could use to sleep. “Aahhh, this is the life,” Laura says as she lies on the soft blanket of sand. “Could someone please cover me up with sand? I could use a nap right now,” she exclaimed. “Yeah we could use a nap too!” said two members of her family. It must be nice knowing that the sun cooking her face to a tan would only include her face and not her body. More Costa Ricans pass by and stare and the sand covered Laura as she sleeps cozily in the sand. A few hours pass by and she ways up with a burning sensation on her face. “Ouch! I got sunburn on my face,” she implies as she struggles to get out of the sand. With her vacation ruined from sunburn and a bad Mexican tan from the sun, she walks to the hotel in hopes that this sanctuary will provide her with healing medicine.
ReplyDeleteThree bodies lay side by side, perfectly aligned with each of their heads parallel to the other two. Mike had laid them down in such a way that they looked like they were sleeping in the sand, almost peacefully. The eldest girl was in the middle, her head resting upon the boogie board she had brought to the beach with her. She was the original target; the other two were mere casualties.
ReplyDeleteHe hadn’t decided exactly when he would carry out what he knew he had to do until that very morning when he saw the three playing in the water outside of the beach house his boss had rented for the job. He watched the three splash and play in the salty water for almost an hour until they took a break on the cool sand. As the youngest girl was building a sand castle, Mike approached them warily.
“Hi,” he had stuttered, “Do you mind if I borrow this pink chair?” he asked the girl. She told him that was fine, but watched him out of the corner of her eye the whole time.
It wasn’t until almost sunset that he returned the chair and did what he came to do. After he was done, he buried the bodies in sand and posed them to resemble one being buried in the sand.
It was not until weeks later that the grief of what he had done hit him, and it killed him both emotionally and physically.
Laura Dieckhoff: Yay, School was finally over! It was now summertime and everyone knows what that means, VACATION! This girl had thought about vacation since the day school started. She was thinking the beach, and sand and beautiful water. She begged her dad, and he gave in to those puppy dog eyes. She started packing in November, 6 months early. The day had finally come her and her family was going to Cancun, she was so excited. There first day on the beach and her cousins decided to bury her in sand, she was sandy for two days!
ReplyDeleteOn this lovely day at the beach these three children buried themselves up to their heads and fell asleep until this guy walks up and randomly starts taking pictures for some reason they didn’t know. But hey the kids were enjoying this beautiful weather on the beach were the waters were fine and the sand even finer. This took them several days just to get all of the sand off of their bodies. Then they returned back here to little boring old pierce city.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a bright and sunny day on the beach of California. “Miami is so beautiful this time of year,” Laura exclaimed. “It’s going to be a great day!”, Kid One Yelled. “It’s so sunny we should tan our faces,” Kid Two screamed. “What about the rest of our bodies?,” Questioned Laura. “No, no way! Let’s just tan our faces. All we have to do is cover ourselves with blankets of sand and leave our faces out.” Explained kid Two. “ummm…weird..but ok I guess,” said Laura.
ReplyDeleteLaura: Three children had been left by their parents at their “family” vacation. The parents started out young and after the first child they just couldn’t stop. They thought taking their kids to a foreign vacation would be the perfect opportunity to just leave them their so they can restart their lives childless and stress free. So these three homeless children were on the hunt for their parents for they thought they were lost. In the night, because they had nowhere to sleep, they would dig small sand graves and climb in so they can be warm and comfortable to get a good night’s rest. Tourists would find this amusing and would take pictures to bring home. During the day in order to scavenge for food the kids would sneak to people picnics and steel what food they could find. After years of searching the children never found their parents but managed to survive off of the only life they came to know. Meanwhile when the parents came back from their vacation they began to party like kids again and were enjoying their free life but two years and three kids later they went on another “family” vacation and came back free of kids once more. The parents continued this routine until they were too old to care anymore. So if you go to a foreign place and see two to three red haired, blue eyed children wandering around on their own, you’ve probably just encountered some of the many Dieckoff children.
ReplyDeleteLaura- Well laura and her family decided to go on a nice vacation somewhere like florida or Alabama, right by the ocean. They played in the water and on the beach for a long time and got very tired. Then they decided to have someone bury them in sand. As they lie down in the sand, laura and her family fell asleep on the beach. The sound of the roaring waves finally awoke them and they struggled, but finally made it out of the heavy sand that covered their bodies. So, after a long day at the beach they went back to their hotel room and went to sleep again.
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