Hurray! This will be the first sandcastle building event!! Myself and two other friends were able to meet up and go attempt at building a sandcastle! I never really built sandcastles as a kid. I think I used to be the kid that would run in the water and splash about and get pummeled by the waves. So I’d end up with salt water up my nose and my mouth. GROSS! eventually, I started to take goggles to the beach so I could see what went on under a wave… Alas, I went on a tangent >_>;
Anyway, we really didn’t have a clue what we were doing. Just brought some metal gardening shovels and a plastic trash can which I bought from IKEA and a large rice bucket. Our initial attempts to build a tower turned out disasterous! Either we didn’t pack the sand enough or we packed it so much that the sand did not come out! We were using super wet sand (later on we found out this is a good thing). While we continued to challenge the sand the large rice bucket’s handle broke off! It was truely a “@#$%$” moment. The guys worked their hawt nerd muscles (if they had any…… jk jk! o_o; ) and continued the process of : Dig sand, pack sand into bucket, flip bucket over, smack it like a drum, hope that sand is formed and falling out of the bucket, and repeat. Since there was not much room for a third person for this ritual I just decided to make a giant crab that would attack the tower. The crab was made but the poor dude got attacked by one of the builders. *rolls eyes* It was a really fun day! Pretty cold and windy, but still a lot of fun! Afterwards we went to grab some pho! 
Anyway enjoy the photos! :]Â p.s. – Sorry for the image quality, these were taken with our cellphones!! >,<;;
This is SO awesome ^_^