The best laid plans...

Sometimes things just do not work out as we had intended. We drove into the city on Saturday afternoon to see the 29th Annual Sandcastle Building Competition. Teams of architects and engineers work with school children to build amazing sand castles or sculptures and it sounded so fun. When we arrived though, we immediately realized that the competition had probably not been too successful. The wind was unbelievable, the beach was almost deserted and the few brave souls attempting to be out there were wearing hoods and had scarves covering their faces and eyes. We made a vain attempt to get down to the beach, to at least take a look at the remains, but the kids could barely stand up and were clinging to us for dear life. Bryttain informed us that she could not breathe and although I chuckled, I felt the same; the wind was just so strong that it was almost impossible to even catch a breath. After maybe two minutes at the beach, we packed up and decided to work out a plan b.

We knew there was a big bluegrass music festival going on in Golden Gate Park and at least one of our friends was there with her children, so we started driving in that direction. Unfortunately we would have had to leave the city to find parking and then made our way back in, or at least that is how it seemed after we drove around for far too long trying to find anywhere to park. Needless to say, we were unsuccessful.

Move on to plan c. Our friend told us about a park we could take the kids to and it turned out to be pretty cool. The structures were all different to the typical parks in our area so it was a real change. Far from our original plan, fortunately our kids were happy to do pretty much anything and just get to play for a while. They really are such great children and make a mommy proud.