We took a long weekend and went home to Florida for the Beaches Sandcastle Contest. We found a cheap (and direct) flight out of New Orleans, so we spent a few hours in the city, taking in the sights and eating at one of the open-air restaurants. Here we are in front of Jackson Square: 
The sandcastle contest was on Saturday morning. The start of the 2 hour contest looked something like this: 
During the contest, we paused for photo ops with Amber and Ryan: 
The finished product looked great! A landscape of 4 pilings with a pelican and a rock jetty in the background. The boys won Best In Show (second year in a row)! Although I was technically part of the team, I lack creative and artistic abilities, so I was basically the water girl (running buckets down to the ocean for sand-packing water - I stopped counting after the 7th...) We had a great time, got some good (and bad) sun, and enjoyed a celebratory lunch afterward. 
After lunch, we returned to the beach to do some swimming and found a ghost crab hanging out by the boys' sand sculpture. Weird for it to be out during the day... We wonder whether it thought the rock jetty was real, because it climbed up into it right after we took this photo! Or maybe we just built our sculpture on top of it's home...
We had to leave Sunday, but not before a good-bye lunch with the Birdsongs at the Fish Company!
Jean joined us too of course! We didn't get to spend as much time with her as usual this trip, but it seems we never do on these long (but not long enough) weekend trips... 
During the contest, we paused for photo ops with Amber and Ryan: The finished product looked great! A landscape of 4 pilings with a pelican and a rock jetty in the background. The boys won Best In Show (second year in a row)! Although I was technically part of the team, I lack creative and artistic abilities, so I was basically the water girl (running buckets down to the ocean for sand-packing water - I stopped counting after the 7th...) We had a great time, got some good (and bad) sun, and enjoyed a celebratory lunch afterward. After lunch, we returned to the beach to do some swimming and found a ghost crab hanging out by the boys' sand sculpture. Weird for it to be out during the day... We wonder whether it thought the rock jetty was real, because it climbed up into it right after we took this photo! Or maybe we just built our sculpture on top of it's home...We had to leave Sunday, but not before a good-bye lunch with the Birdsongs at the Fish Company!
Jean joined us too of course! We didn't get to spend as much time with her as usual this trip, but it seems we never do on these long (but not long enough) weekend trips... 
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