{"id":4353,"date":"2021-09-26T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2021-10-29T17:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T01:49:41","slug":"sand-castles-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/2021\/09\/26\/sand-castles-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"59th Annual Sandcastle Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sand Castles Contest was taken place at Corona Del Mar Beach, which is about 20 minutes driving from our house.<\/p>\n

William always gets excited when we’re going out; and he likes to bring some of his favorite stuffs with him and put them next to him in the car, which of course makes a big mess.\u00a0 I want to emphasize, favorite stuffs, not favorite toys.\u00a0 Now his favorite stuffs that he wants to bring whenever we go out is:\u00a0 a big bag full of white shipping foam that I got from 1 of the packages, 2 trays of checkers and chess board games, heavy load of coins that he put in my make up bag, and of course a few stacks of playing cards that he put in a drawstring backpack!\u00a0 Anyway, that is not what this post is about.<\/p>\n

When we arrived to the beach, which we went here before, Tim parked on the street; William started to say “I don’t want to walk too far!” and kept repeating it over and over.\u00a0 That was when I realized that to access this beach, we’d have to walk down hill for about 7 minutes.\u00a0 Downhill is easy but it’s tough to go uphill on the way back.\u00a0 So we decided to drive down there to park in the paid parking lot; to our surprise, it’s expensive: $5.50 for 1 hour!\u00a0 Huntington beach parking fee is much less: if I remember correctly it’s only $3.00 for 1 hour.<\/p>\n

William was so excited that he ran around non stop; but when we got to the sand, he sat down and did not want to go to check out the sand castles, so I stayed and watch him so that Tim could check them out.<\/p>\n