Today is the 34th Annual Sandcastle Contest in Belmar. Not gonna lie. I have seen exactly zero minutes of the first thirty-three editions. This year, however, all five grandkids are currently here in the State of Concrete Gardens and are all going to be in Belmar this morning to watch the Contest. So, Pop Pop is taking his first-ever Kennedys day off to spend it with the Fab Five.
Full disclosure demands that I fess up to having only started at Kennedys five and one-half months ago. It is not as if I am the linear successor to Lou Gehrig of Cal Ripken, Jr. I am certainly no Rob Darden either. Not even close.
Thankfully today I do not have to be. I simply have to be present to enjoy watching my grandkids spend the day together. Whether they watch five minutes of the Contest or we are the last ones walking off the beach matters not.
-AK
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