Pebblekeeper

Home after a long 6 hours at the beach watching the boys build and the maintain their octopus in the changing weather and meandering tourists.
I think Jon had his picture taken a bajillion times – Nathan wandered and found boys from the youth group and met a new homeschool friend who is twelve, but found out he doesn’t live here. Darren and I sat in our chairs drinking water trying not to voice opinions of how to do their project.
In the Child Category- 12 and under – parents were not allowed to help at all. Strangely, the two winners, had mom in the pit quite often . . . the top winners over all had plastic buckets supporting their figure . . .a no no.
The awards were anti climatic – quickly passed out and jumbled, judged 30 minutes early, rain was dripping.

Really deflating for a hard day’s work, I must confess to being a little pouty. (Feeling MUCH better now.)

There were about 11 child entries that I could see, only 2-3 standing alone without parents getting all the water and wet sand.

Seems like there would be a moment of thankfulness to the entrants – without us – thousands of tourists would not have filled the Taft beach!

So – Thank You Jon and Nate for participating!!! In the end – we had a great day in the sand talking to A LOT of people. 🙂