Following lunch for Jill Day, I decided to build my sandcastle. Jill originally did this with her sister Megan and recorded it on a Timelapse, I followed suit and enlisted the help of my sister Sheree and my niece Harper tagged along also. Mum and Dad were spectators towards the end.
It was a beautiful hot summer's day but maybe not ideal conditions for swimming as per the sign below. #mackaylife
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I settled for a traditional looking sandcastle and turns out, building a sandcastle is harder work than you remember as a kid. Harper quickly abandoned our sandcastle to make her own and she ended up making something that resembled Stonehenge 🤣 But Sheree and I soldiered on, creating a glorious sandcastle (in our opinion), with a moat, a stick for a flag (Jill's had a stick so this was a nod to hers), '101 Adventures for Jill' written in the sand as a welcome mat, guarded by 2 crocodiles which seemed fitting with the beach sign.
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Dad did try to help by taking a photo at the end, but he ended up stepping on and destroying my crocodiles and writing which I had to redo, at which point I let Sheree take the photo. Mum also added her two cents in at the end with some ideas, which would have been helpful at the beginning 🤣 I somehow thought I could put water in the moat not taking into account that it's sand and it just just evaporated straight away. But here was my attempt.
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This was Harper's sandcastle.
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All said and done it turned out ok. Wouldn't necessarily class it as 'giant' but I think Jill would respect the attempt.
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