The three walked along the Enright’s backyard and took the stairs leading down to a crescent beach.
Ashley noticed that Josh was lugging a large black bag with handles. “What is that thing?” she asked as she pointed to the bag
“It’s my dad’s metal detector,” said Josh as he struggled to take it out of the bag. “I’m going to use it to find coins and stuff.”
“Oh, brother,” said Ashley. “Whatever makes you happy!”
“It does,” said Josh as he put on the headphones that were connected to the metal detector. “I’ll see you in a while.” He started walking down the beach and slowly sweeping the metal detector from side to side over the sand.
Ashley spread out her blanket on the sand and set up her sand chair. Then she said, “Come on, Kelly. Let’s start on that sand castle.”
“Can we make Sleeping Beauty’s castle?” asked Kelly excitedly. She was thinking about the castle they saw last year at Disney World.
“I don’t know if we can make that,” said Ashley. “We’ll do our best.”
They started working on the castle and it slowly began to take shape. It didn’t look anything like Sleeping Beauty’s castle, but it did have two towers, a wall and a moat.
“Hey, that’s pretty good,” said Kelly.
