Build a Sand Castle

“Oh alright, let’s make a sandcastle." Her eyes lit up as if I had just offered to go shopping for clothes with her, and we proceeded to make a sandcastle. Soon my son joined in, being the engineer of the family, and mom came over and began to take part. While my son and mom tried to create a deep enough moat to keep the rising tide off our castle, Katie and I made the walls, parapets, flags, stairs, and anything else we could imagine. All modesty aside, we had a pretty good sandcastle going. It was fun again, and I soon forgot my laziness and added to my own memory gallery. But as nature would have it, the rising waves began to lap up closer and closer to our castle, breaching our sand walls and filling our moat. While we tried desperately to stave it off, it was inevitable. We were able to admire our castle for a good ten minutes before it began to be slowly dissolved with the rising tide. No one minded though. We had built it, and as the longevity of sandcastles is a bit tenuous in the first place, none of us expected it to last too long. The fun was in the building, together.”