Yesterday was sunny and hot so we went to the beach. Mom made sandwiches from the leftovers from the lobster dinner and we got some fruit and pop on the way. Sidney wore her new bikini and I know she was desperately hoping there would be lots of boys. Sam wanted to play with her latest souvenirs, three Mexican jumping beans she calls Preston, Edward and Irving, named for each letter of P.E.I. There were actually five in the packet but two of them don't jump. 
I just wanted to lie out in the warm sun and read. We were having a good time until it got late and it was time to leave. Our motel key is one of those big plastic kind with the address of the place printed on it, but it was coloured a sort of rusty red. I guess nowhere else in the world would that be a problem except on a beach on Prince Edward Island. The key thing was exactly the same colour as the sand and it got lost.Dad got in a state, divided the area into squares and put each of us into one square, directing us to go over the sand that was in our square on our hands and knees until we found it. Except Mom, who just breathed this big sigh and went to stand by the water's edge, looking out to sea while we worked. The sun was starting to set and it was getting harder and harder to see. I thought for sure we’d have to sleep on the beach and was wondering whether ‘Fakira the brave’ would be able to find fresh water so we wouldn’t die of thirst. Mom came back and told Dad to just leave it, the motel would give us another key, and Dad said the motel will charge him for an extra key and Mom called him cheap and Dad kept stepping into my square of sand and mucking it up and when I shoved his feet out of the way he got all mad at me.
At last Sam found the key. But in the scrabbling in sand she lost Edward. On our way back to the motel she howled all the way saying Dad didn’t look for Edward because he didn’t love her. She went on and on until he promised he’d buy her another Edward, but that made her howl more, saying “Is that what you’d do if you lost me? Just buy another Sam?” Sometimes she is just too weird. Dad lost his temper and then Mom snapped at him and Sidney asked where we were going to eat that night and everyone told her to shut up. What a family! I sure hope this really is our last vacation because I don’t know if I can stand another one.
Today we got to go to Green Gables where Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the Anne books. Sidney said they were little girl books but I don’t care. I just love them. I am nothing like Anne. I wish I was more like her and had red hair and wasn’t so shy. I bought a postcard of her house to help inspire me to be more like Anne. Mom bought us new outfits in Charlottetown. Mine is a striped pantsuit with navy blue fringes. Sam had a conniption yesterday when Irving the jumping bean became Irving the fly and flew away, but I thought it was thrilling. So that’s what’s inside a Mexican jumping bean! Now she won’t let Preston out of her sight so she can see him become a fly too.
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