Sunday, March 23, 2008

Friday, March 21, 2008

The Amazing Little Hermit Crab

My little sister loved her hermit crab, Sunshine. She thought he was the most adorable little thing in the world with his yellow shell and creepy little legs poking out. I, on the other hand, thought he was gross, so I was not too upset when Sunshine “went to a better place” while we were on vacation.
We had left Sunshine with our good friends, the Cooks, who were very upset when Sunshine kicked the bucket. They even bought my little sister another hermit crab. (I wasn’t too thrilled about that.) My little sister was also upset, but she thanked them and named the new hermit crab Skyie because of its blue shell.
Two weeks later my family and I were we walking into to church when one of the Cook girls, grinning, came up to us and handed my sister a box.
“Last night I woke up because I heard this rustling coming from my trash can. So I got up and looked. It was coming from the box where I had put Sunshine's body and guess what?” She held up the box and shoved it in my face. I looked and sure enough there was Sunshine, tacky yellow shell and creepy little legs and all.
As it turns out Sunshine didn't actually die. He was just molting. My little sister was thrilled to find out that he was alive, but the only thing going through my mind was that now we had two of the little buggers!



This is something that I wrote for journalism Class