Weekend Outings...are the best...Siesta Sand Competition

One cool thing we get to see living at the beach are sand carvings...some amateur competition, some professional ....just so happened this year they were on back to back weekends....pretty cool.

First weekend was the amateur competition..different ages competed, they did a great job

This was a professional sculpture, thanking our Veterans and introducing the competition.

 Also campaigning to keep the beach clean.

Some more amateur...and the winner The Three Little Pigs

Always count on a Mermaid

Squidward...

The next weekend was a busy one...several things on our calendar...one was Symphony on the Sand

Very cool beach concert.

Was daylight when we started.....then came a gorgeous sunset and the lights for the concert

They played some great music and the singers were terrific...we will for sure do that again.

The next day, Denny headed to ATL for a football game and after church I met Kathy for lunch and the professional sand sculpting competition on Siesta Beach

My lunch was pretty and yummy

The sand sculptures were awesome. I was disappointed we had to pay to get in we didn't the last time...oh well, only $8, and it was

The Crystal Classic International Sand Sculpting Competition

So much detail.....next time I'd like to go and watch them sculpt 

Yep, that skinny wall is sand...how do they do that?

Winter might come, but it won't get that cold....lol

Many sculptures had a front and a back

Font and back .....There are two sides to every story...very clever.

Never sure what these blobs were...

Have to look closely....lots of imagination..

Loved this old truck....

The details were amazing...

These appeared to be where some amateurs had some fun, but they were still very good.

A drip castle...wow my Mom loves to make these.

Really enjoyed watching this guy, was fascinating the tools he used and the detail he went to.

Many looked like dental tools. 

Thought the Swiss Army Wife was funny

All of the following pictures are of a HUGE sculpture that all the sculptors helped with...

All the ones that competed....

This was amazing and huge...

What a fun day. The rain stayed away, but the clouds made it cooler.

After a stop at Sub Zero we headed home. I settled in for some Hallmark Christmas movies and waited on Denny to come back. 

I head to ATL soon for work and Thanksgiving...the holidays are close!!

Halloween....what a blast

Our new community really knows how to have fun...we first attended a fun Halloween party on Sat nite, then we rode along on a Halloween bike ride on Mon...what a blast.
But before that Saturday nite party we went on a boat ride with Kathy...too  fun.

Awesome ride and fun to see things from the water side.

Our community from the water...

We stopped for a snack, and there were tons of jellyfish in the water...NEVER seen jellyfish like that...was crazy, and hard to get a picture of...some were HUGE...

After our snack it was time to head back, bad weather was coming in. We got back fine and had lunch at Riverside and headed home. Took showers and chilled a bit before the Witches Ball..

Most dressed up way more than we did..

Nice Buffet......

Some of The Flintstones, and SWAT Team...was a hoot

The Skybar was decorated too...

It was a fun nite....then on Mon evening we had a Halloween Bike Ride. Several couples came together to make this extra special and lots of fun. Several of us and our first stop....

Neal Preserve..where we were met by this crazy woman...

Yummy flavored shots....on the next stop

Back behind our gates and over to the Marina, still under construction...

And these crazy Monkeys were waiting on us...

So much fun..then wound through the neighborhood to our 3rd stop...The Pirates House and jello shots

What great neighbors to create such fun...

Then we headed to The Beachclub for sunset....what a super fun evening.

Then we ended our evening at Bob and Hildy's for pizza...an't wait on our next crazy bike ride.

Meanwhile all our sweet kiddos had fun dressing up and trick or treating

Hope everyone had a fun Halloween...we did!!!