Thursday, April 2, 2009

St. Augustine, FL











We had a wonderful vacation in FL. We drove what seemed like forever to get there but had so much fun when we arrived! We stopped in Jacksonville, FL on our way and visited Michael's grave. (Bob, Michael and I were all born in Jacksonville.) This was special as it has been several years since any of us have had the opportunity to visit his grave. When then headed down to Ormond Beach to the beach house we had rented. The house was a short 5 min walk to the beach. We had a pool and hot tub in the back yard which the kids LOVED. Ashlynn much preferred the pool to the beach as she did not like to get dirty! We headed up to St. Augustine one day and a couple of us ventured up an old lighthouse. We then all went and toured an old fort there, I forget the name. It was incredible. It had a moat around it and everything. St. Augustine is truly one of the oldest towns in the US. The Spanish claimed St. Augustine as there own and then the English decided to try to take over. The history of the town was cool. It was fun to see all the old establishments, an old graveyard that had graves from several hundred years ago and an old school house. What fun!

1 comment:

Kristina said...

I'm really wanting a Florida vacation now! Sounds like so much fun. We've never done a rental property before when traveling, but next time we might have to try it out.