Unfiltered Story #408241

I wanna share a vacation story. It happened in the Summer, three years ago.

I have two daughters who were born barely more than a year apart, share a lot of the same hobbies and play together almost like twins. They’re even approximately the same height. At the time they were approximately seven and eight years old.

We went to the seaside to our favourite region, but a new place, because seaside accommodation prices have gone up like crazy. We found a decent place that satisfied us all and that allowed us to take our dog. Frankly, of the nine rooms this place had, eight had a dog with them.

Anyway, maybe half an hour after we arrived we noticed a couple with a daughter about the same age as our girls. They noticed us. The dogs noticed themselves. The girls immediately got acquainted and practically spent the entire week we were there together. I later told my daughters that the other girl, let’s call her Suzie for simplicity, had had her vacation ‘made’ thanks to them, because there were practically no other kids at the same hotel, and she got two friends in a sort of package deal.

But let’s get to the real story.

Day four, give or take, it was scorching hot, we were all at the beach sans Suzie’s dad, because he had to… yes… stay at the hotel with the dog because the presence of so many people would get it distressed. The mums chatted away and the children had their inflatable mattresses tied together with a rope in the water so that it was a kind of a chain of inflatables with children on them. I was in the water with them and dragged them through the little waves to a spot several yards away, where a pond formed in a shallow part of the beach where the water got warmer.

When we got there, there were a few other kids (of similar age as mine) playing there, including two with a very enthusiastic dad who splashed them with water. Well, Suzie got off her mattress and immediately joined in the water fight, with my two daughters following. Soon it was two dads against five or six little kids splashing water at themselves. They hid under their inflatable mattresses and it was fun.

One moment, however, Suzie decided to crank it up a notch and threw a large ball of wet sand at me, and then at the other dad. The other children followed suit, and me and the other dad had no choice but to retaliate in the same fashion, but mildly, because, you know, they’re kids. We did this for a good few minutes until we got fairly exhausted and took a break to rest… when I realised we’re gone for a while now and should back to the mums so they know we’re okay. We said our good-byes and I took my daughters and Suzie back.

We went back in the same way, I towed them on their inflatable mattresses on the water in the waves. When we got back, the kids all bolted to the mums to get something to drink, and my wife looked at me like I was some kind of alien, asking what happened.

I told her how we spent time, but she asked again – what happened to me!

It turns out that my hair and most of my face was covered in sand and mud that I never noticed. I took my time to clean my glasses, but I didn’t clean my face. We were gone almost two hours.

The other dog started to come to the beach regularly later on during the vacation.