The French Defeated...Again!
Today was a gorgeous, sunny, cool but not cold, San Francisco day. Naturally, Beth and I spent a few hours at Baker Beach. I can't just sit on the beach and enjoy the sun/view whatever. I'm a 12 year old living in a really hot guy's body. There was a ton of bamboo like wood scattered across the beach, so I did what any 12 year old living in a hot dude's body would do -- I made an 18th century-styled fort.
My fort rocked. It had an outer fence, a central hold -- complete with flag pole and cannon emplacement -- covered entrances (both for the outer wall and central hold), guard tower, shack, scattered debris (to confuse assaulting troops!), and two barricades. I even took time to do some earthwork improvements. I snapped a few pictures that will be up on the photo page shortly.
Even better, some crazy French kids were in the vicinity of my fort. I knew they were French because A.) they were just running around in their underwear (instead of proper swimsuits) and B.) they were, uh, speaking French. They saw my fort and tried to imitate it. But I was like, "don't even try it Francois!". Their fort sucked and I have the pictures to prove it.
I also came up with a few game ideas, which I shall try to flesh out. All in all, a very good Sunday.
(posted by grant at 2/12/2006)
