Dignitaries and muck

My job is demanding. I am either in front of the computer for hours, or I'm on the road covering an event or showing up at some dinner or meeting to be seen in the community.
Sean has gotten very used to this lifestyle. If he's home, he has to tag along to all these things. I typically let him do his thing at these events and today was no different. Sean was on school break today for President's Day.
He first said he would wait in the car, but I knew that wouldn't last long. I was standing in the cool 40 degree Puget Sound breeze as we waited for the ribbon cutting of a new wharf and turned to see Sean across the road on an embankment.
At that very moment, Chuck was arriving in the command vehicle and saw that I was trying to both coax Sean to me, yet wanting him to stay put until traffic went by. Chuck was able to grab him for me and get him to an area where he would be entertained. THE BEACH.

While I was shaking some hands and snapping some shots of dignitaries just in case I need them for the paper, Sean was digging in the muck. Wearing his $100 jeans from his grandma. They got a little muddy.

He found a hermit crab and brought it up to show me and I didn't realize how far down it was to the beach. Chuck and I walked around to that side and I asked how in the world Sean got down there.
"He's a boy," he said. "He climbed down." Sean was so excited. That beach was full of little crabs, so he was turning over rocks and watching them swarm and catching some of them. He ventured closer to the water and said, "I found an eel!" He came back up with this little guy.

He showed it to a couple of people and said, "Be careful. He's tired." He let me take a picture of it, then I suggested the eel was probably ready to go back home because they don't really like to be out of the water.
He said when he put it back in the shallow water it found a clam hole and was so fast he couldn't catch it again.