Sand in the City Festival

One of this summer's highlights in Arvada was the Sand in the City Festival.

Teams from various Arvada Businesses created beautiful sand sculptures.

This one of 'King Sooper' was built by the employees of the local Supermarket - King Soopers.

This sculpture of a vintage auto was built buy the APEX Center which was sponsoring a big Vintage Car Show this weekend.

Another team created the popular 'Minions' from the movie 'Despicable Me'.

On the first day of the 2-day festival I volunteered in the Beer Garden pouring beer for the Arvada Beer Company.

The owners of Odyssey Beerwerks were also pouring beer in our Beer Garden.

The free entertainment was great - several bands played - blues & texas rock.

The kids had the most fun in the big Sanboxes that were set up for kids to build their own sculptures.

We brought Denise, Gary and the kids on the 2nd day - Ethan liked the sandbox better than the rides they had there.

He built lots of sculptures of sand pails.

Of course they had lots of rides for kids.

Tyler enjoyed the rides most of all.

She bounced her way down this slide several times.

Her favorite ride was this climbing wall..

She climbed up quickly and rapelled down fast.