Sandcastles! Sandcastles!

okay so there is this huge festival that goes on every year here- the neptune festival!!! obviously, this guy isn't a Sandcastle- he's just REALLY COOL!!!! this statue is about 30 ft tall...and worked into the base are various sea creatures....and he's right on the waterfront. i did grow concerned when MAC said "LOOK! its a statue of God!!!" uh-oh! maybe i should work a little more Bible Study into our routine....you think? haha! We went to the North American Sandsculpting Contest on Sept. 29. which sounds a little lame...until you get there and see some of the "sculptures"....they're AMAZING!!! there are "artists" from all over the WORLD. pretty amazing:

this first one was really kinda weird...some of the "sculptures" had names.....but this one didn't...we figured it had something to do with birth of humanity....hmmmmm..........

this one we thought was wierd-but cute...the title was "you complete me" haha!!! get it?

check this one out!!!! a dragon!!! this is SAND people!!!! can you believe this??!!
there was more to this one...but i couldn't get a good photo....so the lion won out {whatever he was looking at didn't}. if you look closely his eyes are hollowed out....not sure why....but i couldn't do that...could you?

THIS one was BY FAR our favorite!!! it had won the "sculpters choice award."

can you read the writing on the tablet??

this is part of the same one....now do you get it?? its the Wise Man's house and the Foolish Man's house!!! if you look closely {below} you can see the waves and the "foolosh man" tyring to climb onto the sand.

we had heard that this year the "Sculptures" weren't as good as usual! can you believe that? normally the artists have wed-fri to sculpt and then they judge late on friday afternoon. but we had TORRENTIAL rain {and wind} thurdsay and friday. so they only had friday afternoon and sat to work!!! ummmm....WOW!!!

All in all it was a pretty cool {free} sunday afternoon! now why i didn't get photo's of people {my mom would be so disappointed!} i don't know.....i guess i was too caught up in how cool these things were! this will definitely be something we will attend again!