Noodles

I am watering my plants on the front porch when the children from next door walk over. They are all still in their pajamas with their hair sticking out everywhere. They ask me if they can borrow some noodles. I say, "Sure, what kind ?" The oldest boy says "Any kind". "Ya'll come in the house and you can pick out the kind you want." I drag the dogs into their crates and proceed to the pantry. "Why do ya'll want noodles?" "We are going to the beach." "What beach?" "Fripp Island." "Oh nice, I have always wanted to go to Fripp." By now we are at the pantry and I pull out some egg noodles. " How about these?" Three pairs of children eyes look blankly from me to the egg noodles. Finally the oldest says, "Noodles for the beach." A light bulb finally lights in my head. "Oh noodles for the beach. I don't have any noodles but I have boogie boards and skimmer boards." All three children beam. We go back out to the garage and gather boogie boards, skimmers boards and a flying disc. I think they will be lots happier at Fripp with that instead of a bag of egg noodles.