Sand Castle

Do your kids like to play with the sand ? Do you take them to the beach, sandbox or playground ? Do they take the pail and shovel ? Do you make them use special clothing ? Do you help them with the constructions ? What do they like to build ? Or do they prefer to draw on the sand ? Do they build around the little animals ? Do they fetch leaves, branches or sea shells ? Or they bring some toys to play on the constructions ? Tell me your story, here is mine...

"More wet sand, this dry sand does not stand still." said the Little Girl to her soldiers.
"We cannot build a castle with this dry sand.", the Little Girl continued.
The soldiers started looking for some wet sand. They needed to dig a little more, perhaps the wet sand was under the dry sand. They searched everywhere in the playground's sandbox.
"We need more people to look for the wet sand.", said the Little Girl looking in the direction of the princess Beauty and prince Charming. Not a second more and the princess and prince were also looking for wet sand.
The Little Girl paused a bit to regain strength. She drank a bit of water, and she spilled some.
"Ah! Soldiers, spill your canteens on the sand, that will give you the needed wet sand.", instructed the Little Girl.
The soldiers brought the wet sand. The Little Girl used the shovel to place the sand in the pail and with each load the Little Girl made the castle towers. Now to build small walls between the towers and she had a beautiful square castle.
"Into the castle.", instructed the Little Girl. And all the soldiers took their place guarding the castle on the tower, walls and door. "You too.", said the Little Girl to the princess and prince.
The Little Girl dig a moat around the castle, "Now the castle is protected, to bad there are no crocodiles today to put in the moat, they must be after the pirate captain"

The Castle

What is it like to take your child to visit monuments ? Can they be still ? Do they run around the place ? Do they ask questions ? Are they in search for something ? Tell me your story.
Here is mine...

Papi was reading the story about the longest castle in Europe. A beautiful story about a beautiful castle, but what impressed more was the small modern village actually thriving and living between the castle walls. It's not everyday that you see the mailman passing along the street delivering mail to the small house along the castle walls. Something strange and paradoxical about the image, nevertheless with the charm of a small well preserved village.

The mailman had parked the bicycle near the fountain and was now delivering a small parcel to one of the traditional hoses. The plain white wall contoured by the wooden windows and doors, along with the wooden vases with the blooming pink and red flowers gave a touch of simplicity to the picture.

Nearby a tourist was taking pictures of the fountain while examining with great detail the engravings around the fountain. it told a story of a king in love, that everyday his subjects came to wish a wife for the king and threw a coin into the fountain.

Nearby we could see a small two story restaurant, it advertised a dish of roast boar cooked in the central fire pit located in the bottom story. The great walls seemed to contain and amplify the heat within the room, thus we get a feeling that it is now only the boar that is getting cooked. Everybody could feel the intensive heat that gave the meat that succulent taste by not drying the meat.

As we sat on the top story enjoying the roast boar we could see another paradoxical scene. We could see cloth lines in several small houses with modern clothes handing. Some pairs of jeans and colored t-shirts seemed quite out of place, but provided nevertheless a joyful color to the scene.