Day 3 was our first real full beach day in Spain. After breakfast we set off from our Festival Park hotel loaded up with buckets, spades, watering cans, inflatables, snacks, water etc.etc.etc. Fortunately for us the beach was only about 500m from the hotel.
Captain Joshua wasted no time at all in boarding his boat and taking to the open sea. As you can see from the water it was a beautiful day with glorious sunshine.
We never realised just how close we were to Barcelona and as such a lot of the merchandise was FCB based. So Brandon being a football nut chose a FCB mini boat for himself. I think we underestimated the size though and this was fractionally too small for him and toppled over. Fortunately I found a solution by cutting out the bottom of the boat so that he could use it as a buoyancy ring and drive through the water with it around his waist.
Brandon soon got bored of the boat and as I mentioned previously he prefers pool water to sea water. So I entertained him by playing some beach football. He was getting some cracking airborne kicks going and lobbing the ball out into the sea for me to retrieve.
The boys both love playing with watering cans and filling sand holes with water or making cement type sand by getting it all wet and guey.
I used this wet guey sand to teach the boys that you can do a bit more with sand than simply digging holes and making sand castles. So my first effort was a train. I am sure you will agree this is not bad and quite creative, however rest assured some of my sand sculptures later in the holiday were a lot better.
This was what Joshua and Brandon thought of the train. About 3 seconds after completing it they were diving all over it!!!!
The beach extended for miles either side of us with glorious golden sand and very few people. Perfect.
Joshua soon learnt how to operate the beach showers to clean all of the sand off of him.
As well as doing some creative sand sculptures, me and the boys tried some simple line art in the sand. Of course you always start off with names.
Then Joshua started drawing this shape (not sure what it is, maybe the Nurburg Ring).
Then we drew the plane that brought us to Spain.
And the car that got us to the airport in London.
After a long tiring day at the beach we got showered and cleaned up before slipping into the typical routine of the park, dinner, then the kids mini disco. This Indiana Jones style children's bridge was a good idea, the platforms pivot on the top so the kids have to balance and coordinate their movement carefully to cross. Joshua could make it, but Brandon couldn't quite reach between poles and needed a helping hand.
Now I have mentioned the mini disco and a character called Estivee previously. Well here is a picture of the boys posing in front of a painting of Estivee. Estivee is the hotel mascot for the kids club and is a colourful Spanish caterpillar. Olla Estivee.
Finally for today's update a nice picture of Brandon in a children's pool with his swimming goggles and that adorable smile.
Day 4 was back in the Aquasplash Park and I managed to get some really cool pictures. Joshua has a little boat ride and we get a close encounter with a sea lion. Read more tomorrow.
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