"Open Sesame!"

upon arriving at the beach we enter our community through an automatic gate

for years we've been telling the kids that they have to say, "Open Sesame!"

while we quickly type in the code

I was shoked to find this year that

one, my seven year old had told the little ones about the key pad

and two, that I had never told them the story of ali baba and the forty theives!

a little arabian nights for our first night at the beach?

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it's a great bedtime story
if you leave out the two wives, 42 deathes, burning oil, sewing up bodies, etc.!