Youth

How can I forget the EPIC ADVENTURE of St. Augustine, FL! Let's start with a quick story. How many of you out there remember Crabby McCrabberson? When I was a hall director I had a pet crab. I had her in a little tank without a lid because she could not have gotten out. Well, one day her water was stinky and I decided to use the water filter for it. I put it in the water and covered the top of the tank in saran wrap because now there was a cord coming up out of the tank. 

You can imagine what happened next, Crabby McCrabberson crawled out, flipped over the saran wrap and ESCAPED! I had hypothesized that she either crawled out under the crack in the hallway door or down the hole in the floor where the cable cord came up because I could not find her anywhere, not even her carcass when I moved that summer. As I explored our nation's oldest city I found Crabby's distant free cousins. They scattered as I tried to get their picture but you can see all of their little hole homes and the one crab in the middle with his giant hand! I swear he looked just like Crabby- spitting image. And because I was alone on the boardwalk I told him so. 

After sipping on some Fountain of Youth water and shedding what is likely 10 years from my face, I explored all of the sights in St. Augustine. Remember a few posts ago when we reviewed UP? While walking through the Fountain of Youth park I encountered a lot of peacocks and they were yelling at each other across the lawn. They sounded just like Kevin when he was talking to his babies. I tried to get a video to share their sound, but they shut up every time I turned on the video part of the SP. But I did get this sweet pic of two peacocks in a tree.

I took a trolley ride through the city and learned more from that then all of the brochures and web searching I did and also got to see a small, private, liberal arts College in downtown St. Augustine that is in the building that was once the Ponce de Leon Hotel. Apparently the cafeteria has over a million dollars worth of original Tiffany stained glass windows. How cool would that be to see everyday? I wonder what vandalism is like at that college?