On the beach...

 
Hi folks! Do you recognise me behind the sunglasses? Let me tell you about my first encounter with the North Sea. Thus far, I consider it to be my most exciting day of my young life. The sun, the beach, the waves, ...what does a rubberduck need more? Aah yes, love! I had plenty of it! The kids just adore me...
 
 
Yuk! This water is so salty and awfully polluted. There goes my baby-vanilla smell, sigh. But the waves are fantastic.
What do you think of my new hat? 100% seaweed, I feel prettier already, heheh...
 
 
Whiiii!! Weīre having the time of our lives! Take a look at my shelf collection in front of me, impressive no? I dug them out with my beak, as a result I will be tasting sand for hours... hmm... crunchy...
 
 
Did I tell you kids love me?! They do! They worship me so much, they built an entire castle for me, Queen Shelby. I rule!! Next they were fighting over who could be on the pic with me... it was carnage... the youngest girl, Silke, won. She promised me, yum, chocolate cookies, which I never received!! What gives?!
Itīs a bird?! Itīs a plane?! ...Well, itīs some kind of bird, unfortunately not the flying kind. Come on guys, give me a break! My wings arenīt developed enough to fly... Iiiiih!
 
 
After lots of swimming, playing in the sand and sky-diving, Iīm pretty exhausted. Haa, I rest comfortably in the hands of my friend and owner Lisa. I smell a bit salty, but luckily itīs only temporary, a few "freshwater" showers and Iīll be my old vanilla-smelling self again.

Love, Shelby