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This is Davey and Drew on the balcony of our hotel room at Harrison Hot Springs last year. Why did I choose to reuse this picture? Well, apart from the fact that it's almost a year ago (it was last june), we decided to skip church today and head out to Harrison for a beach day.

For those of you who have never been, Harrison has the most amazing sand and they're actually world renowned for it...so much so that they have sand sculpture competitions there every year. It's also a lake that is surrounded on every side by mountains, so I think it's one of the most beautiful beaches in the world!

So, beach lovers that we are, we packed a picnic, some sand toys and lots of sunscreen and headed out to play. We got there at 11, which was already too late for finding an easy parking spot right on the beach, but we loaded up the double stroller and hiked a whole block and found a great spot for sand castle building right by the lagoon. Usually I don't like to be by the lagoon, I prefer the open lake, but because it's still fairly early in the season we thought the water would be warmer.

Turns out our daughter is quite the beach bum. Though we've been to Crescent beach loads of times, we've never set her down in the sand with a shovel and let her play. She was so good. She didn't try to eat the sand at all, though she would forget that her shovel was sandy and absentmindedly start sucking on it and get a mouthful of sand every now and then. She would copy everything we were doing (scooping the sand, scraping it away, trying to dig). We dug a big moat and piled all the sand in the middle to build a big mountain with a castle on top. Well she kept scooting over to the moat and trying to scoop up the water. Later she just wanted to dangle her fingers in it.

Every hour and a half or so I would take her in to the water to desand her and reapply sun screen. HOLEY MOLEY does she ever love the water! She was so excited, jumping up and down and laughing. Even when I would sweep her across the top of the water she laughed. I had her standing in water up to her armpits and she thought that was the greatest. So apparently we need to take her swimming more often!

And of course Davey has always been a beach bum. He's not quite so free in the water, but he does love digging and playing with sand. And he kept trying to liberate our little plastic fish and seahorse by tossing them into the lake as far as he could.

Just before we left Harrison, I headed into Beach Potato to have a look round. By the time I came out both kids were zonked out. Slept through diaper changes, being put in their car seats and most of the way home!!