1. 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

2. 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.

3. 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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