Water has a remarkable ability to animate people, especially kids.
Immersing oneself in water allows a person to experience a completely different environment without the time and expense required to travel to a foreign country. Kids don't have time to name it - they simply go crazy in the water, yelling, screaming, swimming and diving for all they are worth. This summer, on hot afternoons at the lake nearby our house, the water boiled with the excess energy of kids on vacation while their parents tried to maintain a sanctuary of calm and composure on the beach. However, around suppertime, the calm was frequently broken. Suddenly, they were all making for the shore at full throttle, like a scene from Jaws.