St. Augustine

Saturday, March 12, 2016 - Citra, FL

We were up early this morning to head for St. Augustine.  It was about 1.5 hour drive.  On our way there we ran into a traffic jam.  It turns out it was an event weekend at the Hog Waller Mud Bog.

When we got to town traffic was terrible!  There was a St. Patrick's Day parade going on.  We didn't think about that.


We finally made it to the Old Town Trolley Tours Station.  We purchased the Fountain of Youth Tour, which included tickets to the Old Jail, Oldest Store Museum, St. Augustine History Museum and the Fountain of Youth.

The trolley station we started at was stop 2.  All of the tickets we had we at stop 22 and 23 and it takes approximately 1.5 hours to go through the entire tour.  We thought that was more time than we wanted to wait, so we walked to stop 22 and went to the Old Jail tour.

We only went on the Old Jail tour at this stop.

We did not want to wait around for the next tour of the Oldest Store and the St. Augustine History Museum, so we  walked over to stop 23, the Fountain of Youth.

There were several peacocks running around the grounds and this white one opened it's tail.  Which I thought was really cool!

Several smaller ones also displayed their tails.

We walked out on the pier by the Fountain of Youth.

I can't believe I did not take any pictures of the actual Fountain of Youth.  :)  We did take a drink of the water!  So we will stay young.  :)

We finally did hop on the Trolley and headed for Stop 5 to get some lunch.  The this stop has the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse.

Of course it cost extra to go in.  We did not go in.  We continued to walk around the outdoor mall area and found.  We ended up eating at the Florida Cracker Cafe.  When they wanted to seat us, they asked if we wanted to share a table with another couple.  We said "Sure!".  The couple ahead of us said no, so we were able to be seated before them.  :)  We sat with Steve and Kate from Wisconsin.  And as it turned out they were full-time RV'ers also.  They just started fulltiming in November, so they were newbies.  What were the chances.  We had a wonderful time.

Finally we parted ways after a nice long lunch.  This is a place we would eat at again.

We got back on the Trolley and road around to stop 13 at San Sebastian Winery.  They have several stations set up through out the winery for wine tasting and tour.  It was a very nice tour.

We wanted to buy a couple of bottles of wine, but we did not want to carry it back to trolley stop 2.  The trolley stops running at 6:00pm and it was 5:20pm and the last trolley had already left.  Well it was not really all that far, so we walked back to the Suburban and came back to buy a couple of bottles of wine.  :)

Took these pictures of the outside on our way back.

After we were done at the winery we decided it was time to head home.  Poor Gracie had been in all day and we wanted to get home to take her for a walk.  When we got home our neighbor Bob had taken Gracie for a walk at 4:00pm.  He had said he would, but we were not sure if he would or not.  We were really glad he did.  It was very nice of him.  :)

In hind sight we should have just bought tickets for the Fountain of Youth, then gone to Castillo de San Marcos, which we did not make it to.  Walked around the historic walking mall, then gone to the winery.  It would have been a lot cheaper!  :)  But we had a really nice time!

It was another wonderful day!