The Last of October

It was so good to be together as a family of 5 for awhile.  David came home for Fall Break, and it was the 1st time that his sisters and I had seen him since he left for college in August.  He is doing really well in his Junior year.  He has changed his major to Christian Social Ministries.  He will minor in Political Science.  David was able to get a job on campus this year.  He also has a job as a Youth Director for a small, but growing Baptist Church in Delray Beach.   I am looking forward to seeing more of God’s plans unfold for my son! While David was home, we took a quick trip up to St. Augustine. 

This is where we ate lunch - the food was wonderful, I wish I could remember the name of the restaurant, but it is really close to the fort - on the same side of the road.

A unique way to provide the kids with entertainment while you wait for your food would be to...  Feed the fish in the harbor by dropping stale bread out wood box slots below the windows.  If all goes well, the bread falls to the fish.  Alexis has her hand in one of the doors and a crafty bird waiting to catch the bread before it hit the water succeeded, and snatched up the fish food first.  We were all surprised to watch this happen.  Quite entertaining!

This is inside the "Oldest House" in Florida.  The house itself dates to the early 1700's.  The property itself was inhabited by Europeans since the 1600's.

David, Alexis, and Amanda in the garden at "The Oldest House."

We watched a reenactment of the Spanish soldiers preparing their practice cannon firing.  This was a daily occurrence at Castillo de San Marcos.  Building began for this fort in 1672

David by a cannon

A view from the fort displays a Cross at Mission of Nombre de Dios.

4 of the 5 of us in one of the fort's watchtower.  Obviously David took this pic.

Fountain of Youth?  (That's what my sister-in-law jokingly asked when she saw this shot on my Facebook page.)  I told her it's more like the Fountain of Ripley.  (As in Ripley's Believe it or Not.)  We did not go inside, but found a way to have some fun with their outside attractions for a few minutes.

David & David are inside a house made out of a hollowed out tree at Ripley's.

Before we left St. Augustine, we stopped off at the Lighthouse.