FUN IN THE SETTING SUN IN THE SAND

I was told to take the kids somewhere for a couple of hours to wear them out.  So I took them to the sandy play area at the condo.  The light was wrong (it was behind them) but the photos still came out OK. The interesting thing about playing in the sand with your kids is that they have to do something with the sand.  You just can't bring them down to the sand and expect them to have fun.  You have to "provide" entertainment for them in the sand.  In this case, what could be more fun than building a sand castle?  So we set out to build a sand castle. (more below)

What do you need to build a sand castle?  You need, well, sand -- specifically, wet sand. If you look at the pictures, you will not see any water anywhere so the water had to be imported.  Queue Daddy the Pack Mule. The water is available in three different places.  1) the BBQ pit area, 2) the shower by the pool, 3) the pool or 4) the ocean.  Yes, that makes four instead of three but as I was writing this it suddenly occurred to me there was an entire pool waiting to be tapped for water so I did not have to stand in the shower in my clothes holding the bucket and getting all wet--which would be really, really, really stupid when all I had to do was dunk the bucket in the pool. (I'll give you three guesses to figure out which choice I did and the first two do not count).

Anyway, so the Pack Mule went to the shower and got all wet while getting water then tried the BBQ (too far) and the ocean (what, carry the bucket up two flights of stairs?) and then I recommended that they do something else because I was tired!  The Pack Mule was beat! (and wet)...