Little sisters and ironic beach pictures

As my parents left my friend Abigail and I with my ten year old sister, it was a bit of a problem. On the boardwalk in Pensacola, who knows what she could manage to do. The sun was setting, and because we simply couldn't leave the beach without taking artsy pictures, whether ironically or because we actually wanted to, we came to the realization that it was necessary that Celia was there, because even if she "accidentally" dropped my phone into the sand or off the pier, we needed a cameraman.
Then came the problem that to get a picture of the sunset, you needed to focus the camera on the sunset, and if we needed a picture of our faces, we need it focused on us. Seeing as mostly everyone I know understands that, after the first couple of pictures I looked at the pictures to see that all of them were focused on the sunset, which was okay for some of them, and the others... well I would have to try and edit them. The pier we were on was shaped like a giant T and for a while we were standing on the part that is attached to the land, because we prefer to observe rather than be in the midst of people, and there was a lot of people. At a certain point, the group of teenagers on the end of the pier closest to the sunset, we immediately seized the opportunity and walked to it.
Thank the lord we kept our distance, because almost everyone on the pier was smoking. Saying this as a child whose dad runs a cancer center, I really just don't appreciate the contribution to the air around me. We walked quickly past the groups of people, and to the end of the pier, where I instructed my sister as to what to do and when to do it. Not that the pictures turned out like I wanted them, but luckily my phone has some very handy picture editing apps.
Eventually my phone decided to be difficult and refuse to take any more pictures, and the sun was almost gone anyway, so we went back to the boardwalk where we decided to get pizza for dinner and then some ice cream. Anytime you sit at a small table with a friend and a little sister, almost everything your sister does is annoying.
At the end of everything, when my parents came to tell us we needed to walk back to my beach condo while they went to watch a band preform live across the street, my sister bounced down the sidewalk with them telling them about everything we did and how much fun she had, so at the end of the day, I had some great pictures to edit, and she had fun, so I guess it wasn't so much of a problem anyway.