Old Orchard Beach

By: Taylor Sullivan

Old Orchard Beach, Maine is my favorite place to go on

summer vacation. I go to Old Orchard Beach once a year at

the beginning of August. My favorite parts about it are

swimming in the cool water, going shopping, and visiting the

beach.

Skim-boarding is one of my favorite things to do at the

beach. My favorite part is gliding across the water or the

skim. To skim-board you take a wooden oval shaped board

and throw it across the left over water after the wave rolls

out or the skim, then run and jump onto the board while it’s

moving. A big part of the sport is falling down, so you have

to be careful and be prepared.

Swimming is a big part of the vacation there, so if you

go to Old Orchard Beach you have to swim. It’s kind of like a

rite of passage. The waves are enormous! You have to be

careful not to get caught in the tube of the wave. If you do,

bad things will happen. When you are swimming there may

be critters underneath your feet, or even next to you. Just

remember to share the ocean! I like swimming in the ocean

at Old Orchard Beach because there’s cool water and the

waves are always immense.

Shopping is so much fun at Old Orchard Beach and

probably my favorite thing besides the beach and skim

boarding. I just love walking into the different stores and

seeing all the items, trinkets, and clothing. But my favorite

stores are the puzzle and games store, the street side

airbrushing store and the candy store.

The candy shop has candy strung from the ceiling. The

walls are bright neon colored. The scent is definitely my

favorite fudge, candy, and taffy. The taste on my tongue is

the finest ever. It tastes like sugar and fudge the superb

kinds ever! One time my cousin and I went to the fudge

sampling table more than 1 time and not one worker

noticed.

At the puzzle and games store, board games and

puzzles are set up on tables. Jigsaw puzzle pieces and board

game pieces are hung up on the ceiling to decorate the

store. The pieces that are hung up are from games such as

Battleship, Sorry, Monopoly, Uno, and Parcheesi. When I play

Battleship, I can feel the pressure of the game wondering

where my opponent’s ships are. One year, I bought a Rubix

Cube there and I still can’t figure it out because I twisted it

around so much.

At the street side airbrushing store they sell

personalized hats, t-shirts, license plates, and buttons. They

have almost every color including every neon color and

metallic colors too. I watch as they make the hat on a board

and have a long and thin airbrush for fine details! It smells

like airbrush paint and stale sealant I really don’t like this

smell. Next year I will be getting a hat but this year I

couldn’t because I had already gotten something.

I love Old Orchard Beach the skim-boarding,

shopping, and swimming are too much fun. I will never stop

going to Old Orchard Beach.

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