Sand Sculptures

Yesterday we went up to Blankenberge, Belgium to visit the world's largest sand sculpture festival. We thought it would be fun, but what sold us was that (a) both kevin & kherington were free and (b) it was disney themed which we knew kherington would love (princess, buzz, woody, mater, etc).

The night before we decided we would just wake-up whenever and then head up. Well, Ryan is awesome and when Kherington came in and gave me an eskimo kiss at 7am he took both her and Kevin and let me go back to sleep until 9am! We still managed to be on the road around 10am so that wasn't too bad.

We walked around the sand sculptures and Kherington played on one of the those blow-up bouncy things. After getting some wiggles out, we walked down to beach (left out car in the free parking area which was nice). It was our first time seeing the beach here. I think it would be considered the North Sea, but I really am not positive about that. I would compare the water temperature to that of the Washington coast water (think cold). There were a couple people out kite surfing, but that was it.

We headed up to the board walk and wandered around. Some of the fun things we saw: (1) a store where you put your feet in a tank of fish and they eat all the nastiness off them...don't think I could do it, (2) an autodrome - only cost 3 euros for 30 minutes for you kids to pedal around in a go-cart looking thing and get tired...i wish Kherington was old enough to do it, (3) ice-cream stores...Kherington is a world traveling ice cream connoisseur so of course she stopped and got some.

It was a fun to spend the day together away from the house.