Weekending

 

 At St. Augustine Beach

Grandmom and Granddad flew in on Saturday morning, and we drove the very long way to get them (it took us longer to drive there than it did for them to fly!) - but that's life when you live no where near an airport!

We spent all day Saturday in St. Augustine, exploring the sites, and made a quck trip to St. Augustine Beach to see the Ocean.

On top of Castillo de San Marcos.  Three generations of handsomeness, eh?

 

Inside the lookout turret atop the castillo.

Looking out over over the view and being a little silly.

On Sunday, Grandmom and Granddad took Leif to the Jacksonville Zoo.  Leif told everyone he met with, "We're going to the zoo!" all excitedly.  And I mean EVERYONE he met with - hotel staff, strangers walking their dog, you name it.  It was rather cute.  Not only did he get to see all of the animals, but the zoo has a train ride around the zoo.  Naturally, Leif rode it three times.

While they were at the zoo, Jason and I went out to a quick lunch, then to Penzey's, then to Whole Foods to fortify our pantry with whole grains, natural sweeteners, and other such lovelies. 

Then we all drove home, fell in to bed, and spent Monday recovering.  We're all a little zombie-ish today, but hopefully tomorrow we'll awake bright-eyed and bushy tailed!

I have more pictures, but honestly, I'm too lazy to post them right now. 

You like the new header? (Reader/Email subscribers, hop on over to the site to check it out!)  On Thursday, I chanced to glance out the window, and there were hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of birds - mainly white pelicans and flocks of cormorants, feeding and flying just beyond our island (and stretching across our entire view).  They moved around, following the fish, eating, flying, eating, flying.  I've never seen anything like it.  My camera didn't really do it justice (didn't have a zoom lens on me), but still, you get the gist of what it must have looked like to see birds as thick as that almost as far as the eye could see!  It was truly spectacular. 

Anyway, off to bed now.  Happy nights.