I slipped my shoes off to feel the sand in between my toes. Caeley walked up next to me and held her shoes in her hands by her side. I listened to the sound of the waves rush up to the shore. The moonlight reflected on the water as it crashed onto the shore.
As I walked onto the dock the feeling on my feet changed suddenly. the feeling went from soft and smooth to hard and rough. Before we reached the end of the dock my nephew came along and ran into us ruining the quietness and scaring Caeley as she let out a scream. We all laughed with her over her sudden fright.
“Haha, I scared you!”
“Go away.” She said in a laughing tone.
My brother, Paul, and his kids piled onto the dock. My sister, Heidi , and her kids came onto the dock. Heidi’s three boys, Zach, Elias and Caleb ran onto the dock in excitement.
“Water!” Elias exclaimed
“ Yeah Elias, cool huh?” His brother, Zach, said catching his breath.
Before we started taking the lanterns out of the packages we sat around and looked at the water.
“Wanna hear a scary story?” Caeley asked Jameson in a challenging voice.
“No!” Jameson demanded. Jameson walked away and started to bother someone else.
I rubbed my arms feeling all the goosebumps from the cold breeze.
“Alright!” paul exclaimed ruining the silence. “Lets get these up in the air.”
I was so comfortable where I was I didn’t want to get up. I slowly sat forward and straightened my back out. I stood up and once again I stretched my back out. I walked over to paul biting open one of the packages.
“Here, make yourself useful.” Paul tossed up a packages to me.
I started picking at the corner of the plastic.
“Ellie! Take this quickly!” Heidi exclaimed shoving a lantern into my hands.
I had no idea what I was supposed to do with it so I just stood there with it hanging by my side. Caeley grabbed the other side of the lantern. My dad came over and lit the wicks on fire.
“Alright just hold it until air gets into it, and then let go.” Paul informed us.
I looked over at my sister and dad and their lantern was swaying back and forth. My brother and sister in law let theirs go and it flew into the air and far away.
“Nice!” Lisa said giving Michel a high five.
“Ok let yours go.” Paul instructed.
My Dad and sister let theirs go, it started heading upwards. Once it got over the water it was heading downward towards the water. It flew only one foot above the water.
“Oh no!” Vera said.
It started floating away in the water. Mine and Caeley’s was the only one left. We waited about three more minutes until paul finally told us to let it go. We both let it go and it also floated into the water.
“Dang it!” Caeley complained.
We all laughed as we watched the water take away the lanterns still lit on fire in the water.