Bubbles-Dances

Once upon a time, there was a bathtub. Her name was Dushichka. Dushichka had a family — a mom, a dad, and a boy named Ilyusha. Ilyusha dreamed of becoming a sailor, but he couldn't stand taking baths. Ilyusha's mom... tried everything to lure her son into the bathtub, but it was all in vain. One day, she brought home bath foam from the store. The label proudly announced "Magical," but mom didn’t pay attention to it — after all, who knows what they write on labels.

That day Ilyusha came home from playing dirty as a pig, and mom went to fill the bathtub. Shhh! — the water cheerfully splashed, mixing the colorful foam. Suddenly, Dushichka felt an unusual lightness in her heavy cast-iron body and... No, she didn't fly; she was still too heavy for that. But she did move. "Bubbles-Dances! How wonderful! I think I’ll go for a walk," — decided the bathtub and confidently waddled to the front door.

Outside it was noisy, little basins on wheels rushed by, and enormous bathtubs with numbers floated by majestically. In a shoe store, Dushichka bought herself two pairs of shoes and two pairs of sneakers for a change. And she went for a walk in the park. In the park, they sold sweet snow-white foam, which the seller called cotton candy. At a booth, a man whipped colorful foam and poured it into cups with straws. Dushichka tried all of this, and then gulped down a strawberry lemonade with a magical taste… and flew over the city. A helicopter buzzed by, and Dushichka decided that it was whipping up the cloudy foam. When all the gas from the lemonade was gone, Dushichka descended to the ground right by her entrance. At home, she sat Ilyusha down next to her and told him about her wonderful walk. Since then, bathtub Dushichka loved to travel, and Ilyusha loved to bathe. After all, you can't discover new lands just sitting on the shore!