"Honey, something is definitely up with our hiking clothes." Lisa said.
"Yeah," William said. "Now that ya mention it, my hiking shirt is a bit baggier than normal."
"I think when we get home, you need to check the washing powder we use." Lisa said.
"Agreed." William said.
The family sat down on the grass to rest, and admire the lake a little more before they headed home.
Suddenly, Lisa rubbed her eyes - she saw her husband's hiking boots seem to slide right off his feet, and slip down the hill toward the lake, only stopping just an inch before the water.
And she was not the only one; William noticed them too.
"Holy cow!" William said. "My boots!"
He stood up, and walked over to the lake, holding his hiking pants, since they were looser than normal. He picked up his hiking boots, and walked back to the hill where the rest of the family were. He sat down, and pulled off his thick hiking socks, which were much baggier, and looked at his bare feet.
Their clothes slid, bunched in odd places, and basically looked like they were slowly consuming the people wearing them as their bodies grew smaller. And smaller. Then, smaller still.
William's head was pulled down inside the collar of his red lumberjack-plaid hiking shirt."This is amazing," William said aloud, not quite sure if he and his family were having a bizarre dream or not. He chose to believe it was not a dream because the sensations that he and his family felt were quite intense. He felt like they had been caught in a whirlpool that was pulling them down, down, down into something much different.
His head disappeared into his collar and the shirt collapsed, and then he ended up in some sort of cave, made of denim and red lumberjack-plaid fabric [which was really his huge hiking shirt and hiking pants].
eventually, he wriggled and crawled out of a small tunnel, and he saw a huge green hill. there he found huge sets of hiking clothes that just like his family's, but much bigger, then he saw his family coming towards him, except they were now naked.
William looked down, and saw he was naked.
"Holy cow!" William exclaimed. "We've shrunk!"
the Thrivesons were now tiny, and nude!
The shrinking effects of the spring's water, sadly, had no effect on clothing.