Turtle Tunnel!

Christine sent me a link to plans for a sandbox several weeks back.  I didn't plan to build it over the long weekend, but it turns out to have been a great weekend for it and even though I only placed the order for the materials online on Thursday night, everything was ready Friday, so Saturday I picked up everything and set to work.

There's always a few set-backs, of course, but once completed and loaded up with 16 (!) 20kg bags of sand, it was an instant success.  I made it 6'x6' thinking (foolishly) that it would be large enough for two boys to play in without fighting.  Of course that's not the case, but both of the guys are too happy about it to get too caught up in fighting over toys, so I'm calling that a win too.

The sand we bought was really nice, it was quite wet right out of the bags, so it worked really well for making castles.  At one point we had a respectably high pile built, too, so then I started tunneling underneath it with a curiously round shovel.  That worked better than I'd hoped, because the tunnel was also wide and high enough for James to "walk" one of the sand molds through it.  This particular one was a turtle so, of course, the tunnel became a Turtle Tunnel.  For the rest of the evening that's all he wanted to do.  I would make a new Turtle Tunnel and he would have his turtle walk through it than over the Turtle Bridge and back through the tunnel again until it would eventually collapse (or Daniel would get the urge to smash and then he'd stop the tunnel flat) and I'd start all over again.

Not in picture: Turtle Tunnel

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