As you've probably heard by now, I was part of a winning sandcastle team yesterday. From what I understand, this is a huge deal and you should be ashamed of yourself if you were not keeping up to date on the local sandcastle competitions. I mean, seriously. This is important stuff.

When I arrived at the beach, I was informed our theme was "Hand Castle." I'll admit, it's clever. I wish I came up with that one. I did contribute to the many puns that were thrown around and listed after the pictures of our awesome job. Click on them for more.
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• Well, it was such a hand-some concept, not doing it would be like giving you the finger.
  
• I thought you were going to try to strong-arm me with other ideas, and I was totally prepared to hand-le that.
• [To a judge walking away] Did you get our digits?
• The judges will probably just hand us our prize.
• The crowd loves us! We're getting thumbs up and high fives all over the place!
• They're probably just admiring the details of our handiwork.

And worst of all:

• Our team name: The Beach Slappers
  

I adore your wit. truly.    

Keep in mind, I did not come up with most of those. In fact, a speed reader has already claimed me to have said that.    

You guys gave quite a great "hand job", I must admit. I'm sorry that I coudn't be there! Love, Luke & Josh's friend, Alison    

You should be sorry. I mean, you were totally missing out.