The hubs and I decided to do an extended weekend get-a-way for our 1 year anniversary. We went to the B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L city of St. Augustine, FL.
We left on Friday afternoon (the Hubs left work a bit early) and made the 3 hour trek to St. Augustine.
We stayed at a GORGEOUS bed & breakfast.
St. Augustine is really known for their B&B's. They aren't necessarily cheaper there, but WAY nice. We stayed downtown and within walking distance to anything cool.
Our room looked like this
With an ahhhhmazing 2 person Jacuzzi tub
Day 1: Friday Night
We arrived in St. Augustine ~5pm. Right in time for crazy downtown traffic. With St. Augustine being founded almost 450 years ago, the streets are very tiny... which means REALLY bad parking. It took us like 1/2 hour to find parking. Our B&B had happy hour from 5-7pm, which means we arrived just in time to indulge in appetizers and delicious cake. After we settled in, we ventured out for dinner.
We ate here.
We also got the most amazing HUGE chocolate cake, which we didn't eat till later.
Day 2: Saturday
We woke up to an amazing breakfast of poached eggs. The inn doesn't really have a "choice" in the breakfast entree, but you can have as many side items as you want (i.e., pastries, muffins, bagels, fruit, etc). We got a lot of side items and split them. You fill out a sheet the night before with a number next to each side item. Also the items changed daily. For instance, the first day was a apple muffin, the next day it was a blueberry muffin. So you never knew what you were going to get, so we always got like 1 of everything and then split it. One of us always ate it.After breakfast, we bought tickets for the old town trolley, which just happened to be good for 3 days (the whole time we were there). We rode the trolley all the way through the first time so that we could figure out where everything was and decide where all we wanted to go.
We first did the history museum
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| Reuben thought maybe he'd trade in his new mountain bike for this one :) |
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| This is an example of one of the first RV's. Sleeping bags were in the back and the kitchen was off of the back end. |
Then we visited the old jail house.
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| There was a rope attached at the top of this cage that they said they used to use hang the cage in the trees |
We then walked down through all the little shops and got some lunch. Then we made our way to the new pirate museum they have in St. Augustine. I believe it is the largest in the world. They have over 600 authentic pirate artifacts including 1 of 2 (in the world) authentic pirate flags and the only in the world authentic pirate chest. It was pretty neat. They also had some hands on activities for kids. And Disney helped them build the exhibits so there is a section with pirate movies. They have the sword that Johnny Depp used in the Pirates movies there. They didn't allow any pictures in the museum, so I don't have any to share.
It rained everyday we were there from about 5-6 pm. Just in time for us to head back to the B&B and enjoy some happy hour.
Saturday night we did a moonlight sailboat cruise on the Schooner Freedom.
It went from 8:45 to 10:15 pm (it gets dark early in Florida... even in the summer). It was really peaceful and romantic.
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| Us on the boat :) |
After that, it was late, but we still hadn't eaten, so we made our way to some food. They had really cool seating outside at this restaurant.
Day 3: Sunday
Happy 1st Anniversary to us!!!!
We woke up to (again ahhhmazing) breakfast casserole and a bunch of side items (as we did everyday).
Doesn't this look delicious???
We started off at the fort. We wanted to do it early because it gets so hot in the afternoon and the fort has ABSOLUTELY no shade. It was still hot. And I got a little sunburned, but it was GORGEOUS.
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| All I have to say is - Back off ladies - he's mine!!! :) |
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| View from on top of the fort looking in |
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On top of the fort |
We went to an authentic Greek restaurant for lunch. The hummus was absolutely delicious and my Greek salad was yummy. All in all, a good choice.
We relaxed for the rest of the afternoon. Took a mini-nap. Then did the whole happy hour thing and ate some more. Are you catching the theme from this trip.... FOOD and EATING! We took a quick stroll across the bridge of lions before dinner. Sadly I forgot the camera, so no pictures :(.
We got a recommendation for the a restaurant for dinner called the Raintree. It was really nice. We had reservations for 8:30.
Us before dinner
\Our Margarita pizza. It had tomatoes and pesto and cheese. It was the most delicious thing that we ate in St. Augustine.
We split our entree. Lemon chicken with a buttery sauce and angel hair pasta. It was pretty good. I would have ordered something different, but the Hubs picked that entree and frankly I wasn't too hungry. Can you imagine why?
After dinner, we (of course) had to order dessert. We requested a dessert menu and the waitress came out with an Ipad. It had a video showing all the desserts on it - pretty cool huh? So this restaurant is known for their desserts. EVERYTHING looked good. But we ended up getting peanut butter dessert thing.
The best way I can describe it is ice cream surrounded by a cookie that is topped with crumbled peanut butter cups and then topped with fudge. Here is the picture. Trust me... it was to die for!!!!
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Quick picture of us after dinner
Checkout was at 11 am, so we still had time for one last breakfast - waffles.
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| View from our table - how beautiful is that? |
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| A friend decided to join us for breakfast. He sat above the inn on top of the trees. |
After checking out, we decided to head to the beach. It was something I wanted to do while we were in town, but we just never had time. We didn't swim, but we walked the shore for about an hour and a half.
We also stopped at the light house. We considered climbing 200 and something steps to the top, but they wanted 9.50 a person and I really didn't want to pay $19 for us to do it. So maybe next time.
After we left the beach we headed here
We arrived back in Tallahassee about 9 pm.... Already thinking of planning our next trip to St. Augustine. We didn't get a chance to look at everything, so we saved some things for our next trip.
