Toddler's first holiday - feeling a bit deflated about the weather

[ButtercupBluebells]

I know I am being a bit silly here, as many people can't afford a holiday at the moment. But I've been so looking forward to bringing my 3 year old on her first holiday, and it's bloody pissing it down here in Devon! I tried to make the best of it today, but it was so miserable. She'd been talking about the sea and building sand castles for ages, so as soon as we had a dry spell we chucked on our precautionary waterproofs and headed for the beach. She was just so underwhelmed, complaining about the cold wind and saying she wanted to go home :(
I have been looking for indoor activities for the rest of the week, but it's not quite the first holiday I had pictured for her. Made all the more annoying by how warm and dry it's been all summer. Anyone else having a disappointing holiday this week?

My husband is a well known rain maker so I do sympathise. Is the aim of the holiday to mainly please your 3 year old? There are lots of indoor things that should amuse. I’d suggest indoor swimming pool would be way more fun then the beach anyway .

Which part of Devon are you in?

In the nicest possible way I should imagine she's picking it up from you! If you run across the beach in the pouring rain with your arms spread wide, screaming with laughter, jumping in puddles, chasing your OH, she'll most likely join you - if you hunch over moaning to your OH about the weather and apologising to her, promising her something nice later to make up for it, telling her you can't do X or Y because it's raining, she'll just absorb that attitude. Toddlers largely mimic what they see and hear!

Some of our best holidays involved making sandcastles in the rain! Getting soaked to the skin and drying out after in a toasty caravan and having hot chocolate. Try to shift your mindset from what you expected your holiday to be like. Go shell collecting, rock pooling, gruffalo hunting in caves. Next year I’d go in June!

What Pesto said.

It is disappointing for us, as adults, but the dc can be persuaded otherwise at that age.

Exactly what @PestoPasghetti said.

My DD4 loves rain thanks to me putting her in wellies and all in ones since she could walk to jump up and down in the puddles. I've seen a few women horrified by it as they don't understand jumping in puddles in the rain or running around in rain is fun.

She also thinks all beaches even if they are pebbly are fantastic as she can collect the pebbles and shells plus find star fish, cuttlefish and chalk. (She gets cross as I now overtly make her put them all back for the next people.)