St. Augustine Sisters
"Box of Crazy" (that would be what a friend recently called me...) On Wednesday my sister mentioned that her daughter's class was taking a day trip to St. Augustine for a field trip. Hmmmm I pondered. Thursday came and I packed a change of clothes, loaded up the truck and left at 4 o'clock headed to St. Augustine! I get a hotel and in the morning I called my sister on her cell.... no answer I KEEP CALLING. I kinda start to panic because I think WHAT IF SHE DECIDED NOT TO GO!! Finally she answers her phone (she sounds annoyed). I am like UHH where are you?? The buses were running late and she was 10 minutes away. I got the camera ready, assembled the kids and waited as the buses unloaded. I had hoped to catch her coming off. INSTEAD she comes out yelling, "That's MY SISTER!!!!" We joined in her field trip. I feel like we got all American History wrapped up in one day, as our tour guide was like Napoleon darting here and darting there. I forgot to mention as I am driving I call my best buddy Iris who lives in Miami and ask her to join us in St. Augustine. Apparently she must also be another box of crazy because she CAME!! What a whirlwind of learning, laughing and uhh some wine 
Note: I normally do not dress my son in pink he was wearing my jacket.
The kids got in on watching them fire off the cannon. All of the orders where in Spanish.
We toured the Flagler college which was really a hotel back in the day. Mister Flagler was a perfectionist and believed in making each and every detail perfect but he also believed that only God was perfect so he made sure they left a little defect in the Hotel Floor...can you see it? He was friends with Edison and was the first hotel to have electricity. (even before the White House) They must of gotten shocked fairly often because they had 90 people working in the hotel whose job it was just to turn the light on and off...zzzzz zap!
Part of the ceiling... Just a tiny piece of it.!
and of course we saw the school house.
St. Augustine is the oldest functioning city in the United States. I also found a functioning winery with my friend Iris and bought some Muscadine table wine called Rosa.
Note: I normally do not dress my son in pink he was wearing my jacket.
The kids got in on watching them fire off the cannon. All of the orders where in Spanish.
We toured the Flagler college which was really a hotel back in the day. Mister Flagler was a perfectionist and believed in making each and every detail perfect but he also believed that only God was perfect so he made sure they left a little defect in the Hotel Floor...can you see it? He was friends with Edison and was the first hotel to have electricity. (even before the White House) They must of gotten shocked fairly often because they had 90 people working in the hotel whose job it was just to turn the light on and off...zzzzz zap!
Part of the ceiling... Just a tiny piece of it.!
and of course we saw the school house.
St. Augustine is the oldest functioning city in the United States. I also found a functioning winery with my friend Iris and bought some Muscadine table wine called Rosa.
sounds like a fun time! love that ceiling!
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what a great way to learn history and architecture, and have fun at the same time.
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