So with a day off and an itch for adventure Dan and I left Orlando behind and drove north to St. Augustine.... To climb a lighthouse. yeah.....
This is gonna be amazing.....
Oh, its pretty big!
Like, 160 feet tall big....
Annddd because it was built in 1874... its stairs all the way to the top.
(and because this is America... we did indeed watch a rather large man opt-out and choose to sit on a bench while the rest of his family climbed)
Yaaaayyyyyyyyyy
Long way down...
The view from the top is pretty lovely too, worth the climb up to see the oldest city in America.
Oh, and like... the ocean too.
In the museum they have the lens from the light... that someone shot with a gun (I guess they thought that was a good idea or something) the FBI even investigated the shooting...
Gives the lighthouse some street cred, yo.
MY SPACE PHOTO!!!!
(wait, people don't use MySpace.)
Well, after the lighthouse... we drove over into the city itself. The lighthouse is to the south east of the downtown area. Downtown we happened upon a small city park with a Carousel so we took it for a spin. yaayyyy rides
Davenport Park and its Carousel
Woo, and its only $1 a ride! :D
Some of the horses were kinda banged up, but the ride does date back to...1927
Although it only came to Florida in the 1990's
yaaayyyyyyyyyyy
(and now that I have my own internet connection ((i know, i know, welcome to 1998)) I'll be able to update here more often :) )
