Sandblasted

This past weekend we went down to Port Aransas with my parents for Sandfest. It's a 3-day festival down on the beach with a lot of vendors selling things from carved wooden fish to jewelry and people building sandcastles ranging from kids to amateurs to teams of "master" sand sculptors. Port Aransas is usually a town of around 5,000 people, but they were projecting about 100,000 to attend the festival so it is a really big deal for the community. It was the first time for Morgan and I to go to the festival, and we had a great time!

The first day was really windy, hence the title of this blog, and we got covered in sand walking to and from the festival. The sculptors still had a lot of work to do on Saturday morning so we spent a lot of time checking out the different vendors. Below are a couple sculptors making the Beatles' Yellow Submarine.

We went back down Sunday morning before we left, and the sculptors were putting the final touches on their creations. Here are a couple of the coolest ones. The first is Mr. Peanut at the psychiatrist.
And the last one, in honor of the Dillo Cup which was also being played this past weekend, is an armadillo drinking a beer. Very classy.

And finally, every trip to the beach is not complete without one last couple picture. You can see we got a little sun, and we're already looking forward to going back soon.