Bob turned on the lights in the basement. He looked at all the boxes separating him from the suitcases and groaned. Earlier that day, His parents had happily announced that they would take a vacation to the beach at Brick shores, a tiny coastal town. They didn't tell him that HE would have get the suitcases out. "At least I get to take a break from school." Said Bob to himself. After a hour of hard work, he got all the suitcases out and ready to be packed. To be continued…
Bob's sister, Sue, helped him get the suitcases to their mom and dad's room. Then they lugged their own suitcases up the stairs. Bob sat for a minute wondering what to bring. Obviously, he should bring his swimming legs and his camera. Then bring some clothes, some suvineer money, and a few games to play. The next day everyone hurried to get ready. "Bob, can you take the suitcases outside?" "I'm eating!" "Well hurry up!" And so on. After a hour and a half, the suitcases were in the family SUV. After the large, black vehicle rolled onto the street, Sue jokingly asked "Are we there yet?" To be continued…
After forty five minutes the children could no longer recognize where they were. Bob was looking out the window counting things. Sue was staring vacantly out the other window. Then Bob asked the second (or third) worst question on a road trip. "I'm hungry." Mom stopped the car in a parking lot while Bob got in the back and searched for the bag of food for on the way. Then he said "I can't find it!" Then Sue climbed in the back to help him. "I don't see it!" Then Mom got out of the car and opened the back. "I don't see it either. Honey, can you help us?" Then Dad got out of the driver's side and walked to the back. "I'm sure it's here. (Mumble) I guess you left it at home." Bob walks back to his door complaining and climbs in. Oh…I found it. Takes the bag out of the seat pocket. Dad face palms.
An hour after the bag incident, Sue and Bob began to grow bored. There wasn't anything to look at out the window. Just trees. They had just decided to play unlimited rock, paper, scissors when they stopped at a Brick-Fil-A. On the way in they did a round. "Fire!" (Sue) "Hired bodyguard!" (Bob) "Fire burns the bodyguard!" "No! He punches the fire!" "How is that possible?" "It just is." Then they then had to get out of the car. "Yay! Brick-Fil-A!" After they ordered soft drinks and hamburgers, they sat a booth near a window. "So, how do you feel about the trip?" Dad asked. Sue said she couldn't wait for them to get there. Bob said that he could almost feel the water. After that they started talking about why they built restraunts "way out in the sticks" Dad started to say that people live here but Mom interrupted and said that it was rude to say that. A while after that, they got back into the car.
"Hey! There's a palm tree!" Bob ad Sue exclaimed at once. Bob waited a minute then said "Jinx. You owe me a soda." Sue then said that Dad would probably buy all the drinks on this trip and that he would forget about it later. Bob looked depressed. An hour later, they saw another palm tree. "Why do you think that palm tree was a hour away from the next one?" Asked Bob. It was probably just to promote a…tanning salon or something." Dad answered. "Or someone hoping they could charge for people to get their picture taken next to the first palm tree they see." Put in Sue. "Hey! There's another!" After Mom put up the sun roof, they could smell the salt in the air. Soon, they could see the sea itself. When they arrived at the house that Dad had rented, they moaned. Even Dad looked startled.
As they drove up to the small, neglected looking, house that was in need of paint, Bob groaned, Mom gasped, Dad looked at the address again, and Sue sighed deeply. The lawn was overgrown and sandy, the fence was falling apart, the door looked dangerously delicate, and worse yet, the house itself was a faded bright blue! It looked way too small. "That's weird, it looked better in the pictures." Dad said. "Everything does." Said Sue sarcastically. Dad took an old key from his pocket and walked to the door. "Let's hope this doesn't fit." Dad muttered. It did. Inside, it smelled like an old shed. There wasn't much furniture. Luckily, the basement was furnished. "I guess this will be home for the next few weeks." Said Dad with an unconvincing, forced smile. The children immediately went to explore the house. "There are only two bedrooms and one bathroom." Said Bob. "Will I have to share a bedroom with Sue?" "Yes." Said Dad. Both of them groaned.
Sue plopped down on a couch in the vacation "dream house?" The name Sue and Bob made up for the house. As soon as she made contact with the couch a cloud of dust arose…along with a loud cracking sound. The cloud if dust was so thick that at first they couldn't see what happened. When it cleared they saw that the couch had split in two, trapping Sue's arms under it. After she got loose, they surveyed the damage. "Hmmm..." Said Dad thoughtfully. An hour later, The whole thing was covered in glue, duct tape, and screw holes. "Hey!" Exclaimed Bob. "There's a backyard!" After struggling with the lock for a few minutes, the door creaked open. Bob glanced first at the overgrown yard and then at the rickety stairs that led down to the yard. He cautiously put one foot down on the first thin wooden stair. Snap! Thud! "Aaaooowww! Yelled Bob! Everyone came running.
As soon as the one board gave way, Bob fell on the other boards, all of which collapsed under his weight. By the time everyone arrived at the scene of the accident, Bob had gotten up. Luckily, he wasn't injured badly. After Mom had insisted that Bob take a shower in the rather musty smelling shower, they went to bed. Although there were only two beds, they were both pretty big. Both Sue and Bob had enough room. When bob, who was the first to wake up, tried to get out of bed, he forget that he wasn't in his own bed. He tried to roll to the side of the bed. Thump! "Aaauuuggghhh!" Half an hour later, breakfast was on the table. Sue was still grumbling about her unsavory awakening. Mom and Dad were trieing to be cheerful even though they were annoyed at the untimely rousing. "So," Mom said. "How do you like the house? Bob was about to say that it was a piece of junk when Sue, knowing what was on her brother's mind, quickly put in "it's alright…" "Wow! that was a sarcastic thing to say!" Bob added. An hour and a half later, they were standing at the edge of the beach. It appeared to be more shells than sand. Also, the water looked deep. They didn't have much ocean before it became too deep for them. "At least the water is clear…" said Bob.
"Sigh" Bob had been anticipating the beach for three days. Now he saw what it was like. "Sigh" Bob saw that Sue was feeling the same way. But he still had to put on an act so Mom and Dad wouldn't feel disappointed. So he reluctantly walked into the water. It was VERY cold. Bob sprinted out of the water immediately. After he had warned Sue of the potential threat, he decided to have a sandcastle war with her. Whoever could make their fort last the longest against the oncoming tide won. They both immediately made a wall. Bob fashioned his fortress into a classic sandcastle. Sue made her's a huge pillar. Another rule was that you couldn't make repairs to your fort after water hit it. Soon, the water arrived. Despite the trenches at the base of their walls, the water still came at them. Bob's wall was the first to fall. A wave had worked it's way over the wall and made a low place. From there on, it made a huge hole despite some hastily made patches. Luckily, the water got at Sue from inside Bob's fort. After the wall had been destroyed on both sides, it reached the forts. After eroding the base, Bob filled the hole up with shells. Sue made him take them out because of the fort rule. Soon, Bob's fort fell…on Sue's tower which immediately fell over…onto Sue. Lunch consisted of sandy sandwiches. After a few minutes longer, they went home.
That afternoon, Mom and Dad took them into town. They were going to explore downtown and eat at a restraunt. As soon as they got there, both Bob and Sue both at once asked "Can we see the lighthouse? Please?" "Lets see how much it costs." Dad responded. It was only a small fee to ascend the thick, metal staircase that led to the top. As they climbed it, Bob tried to count the steps but lost count. As they stood at the top, marveling at the incredible view, Sue whispered to Bob. "I'm glad we can't see our house from here." "I agree." Bob answered. "It would probably look worse." After a while, they got cold and descended. After walking a short distance, they stood at the restraunt Dad had picked out, The Island Brick.
When the family arrived at The Island Brick, they couldn't wait to get inside. The biulding was an old house conveyed into a restraunt. Some tables were outside where there were seats shaped like LEGO Bricks and an iguana inn a cage. Inside, everything was made of wood except the ceiling. As they waited for a table, Mom asked for a menu so she could go ahead and decide what to get. When everyone found something they wanted, Dad noticed that the drinks were kind of expensive. "Why don't I run over to that gas station across the street and get them so we can drink them while we wait for a table." When he returned, Bob found that he could make a kind of tuba noise with the straw. When the waitress came over to ask him to stop she also announced that the restraunt would close soon and that they didn't have time to eat after they finally got a table so they had better get going. As there weren't any other restraunts near, they had to trudge home and eat sandwiches. Then they went to bed.
The next morning, Bob fell off his bed again. "AAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!¡!" That left everyone, even Bon, a little grumpy. That didn't help the children take the news that was announced after breakfast. "Well." Dad said. "Today we will go get suvineers and… "Whoo!" Shouted Bob and Sue together. "…and." Continued Dad, giving them the hairy eyeball for interrupting. "We have to leave tomorrow. "Awwww!" Moaned the children. "I thought you disliked this house. Said Mom. "It's not the house, it's the beach." Defended Sue. "And going back to school do soon." Put in Bob. Well, at least we get to go get suvineers." Sue said disappointedly. An hour later at the suvineer shop… "Woa! This place is enormous! Exclaimed Bob. "Since this place is so big, we will have to split up to find what we all want. Meet at the register in an hour and a half." Said Dad. After Bob had thouruogjly lost his spence of direction, a man found him. "Do you know the way out of here?" He asked. "No." Bob said. The man began to peel a banana in his hand, but decided against it. "Do you want this banana?" He asked. "I'm not that hungry." "No." Said Bob. "Besides, my mom says to never take food from strangers and I don't like bananas that much. Also, that is a really soggy banana. The man gets all red in the face and gets really mad that his kindly offer was critisized. "NOW DON'T YOU INSULT MY FAVORITE FOOD!¡!" The man shouted angrily. "OR I'LL, I'LL…" stuffs the banana into Bob's mouth and runs away.
When Bob finally found his way back to the register, he found his family waiting for him. After he told about his odd encounter, Sue couldn't help but snicker. After he showed them his suvineer of choice, a LEGO City set that included a beach, a dock, and a boat with several minifigures in swim suits. Sue had picked out a monogrammed purse with Brick Shores written on it in fancy letters. Below it, it said "Where dreams come true? Not!" Mom had a picture frame for three pictures. "Hey!" said Dad. "There are four of us. How are we going to fit four pictures into three slots?" After reassuring him that they could fit a picture of Mom and Dad in one slot, he calmed down. Dad had picked out a coffee mug with Brick Shores written in front of the lighthouse. After they were payed for, Bob said "Hey look! One of those coin crank things." When Mom gave them one penny and a dime to put in, Sue asked "How that it was legal to do that when technically speaking, it is defacing money?" No one knew the answer. A little later at the beach house, Dad got all upset again about how you couldn't see either if they're faces now that there were two people in the one part of the picture actually showing.
About an hour after they had started the long ride home, Dad stopped for lunch at a BrickDonalds. They ordered a Brick Meal and their choice of drinks. While they were eating Dad started talking about how a house had burned down near their house. "One mini figure was melted but the others escaped." Dad said. Mom gave him a look for talking about a minifigure melting in front of the kids. When they got back they saw that the car next to them was chocked up on plastic bricks and all useful bricks were in the back of a truck speeding away. "I'm glad that wasn't us." Bob said after they had called the police. "Me too." Agreed Sue. Four hours later, they were in sight of their house. As they were coming down the street and were almost to the driveway, the engine quit. To be continued…
