This is the bed in the hotel room. It was one of those wicked high antique beds that I had to climb up on in a less than graceful way.
We had our own jakuzi. It was nice but very loud. The neighbors must have thought we were having way more fun than we were.
They also had fancy robes for us to wear after the jakuzi.
They must have known we were coming -- that is a Roger Tory Peterson blue jay print hanging in our room.
Our first night, we took a horse drawn carriage ride around the town. We learned all about Henry Flagler who, despite being very very very rich, was a bit of a twit.
Us, looking all romantic and stuff on the carriage ride. The white mansion behind us in the middle is where we stayed, The Casablanca Inn.
Saturday, we decided to take an Olde Towne Trolleye ridee arounde towne. Here is David in front of a church that is famous but I have already forgotten why. I think Flagler built it.
We went to the Lightner museum, which is in an old casino also built by Flagler. This picture is actually a window box -- those are real dead stuffed Gambel's quail. We ate lunch in what used to be the largest indoor swimming pool in the world, which was in the museum/casino.
This rocking chair was in the musuem. David wants one just like it.
This is the 4-masted schooner that we took a "romantic sunset cruise" on. There were about 45 other people on board, so I'm not sure how romatic one could get, although a couple did get engaged on board.
Another view of the boat.
Awww, aren't we nauseatingly cute?
So, the deal with this cross: When we were on the horse-drawn carriage trip the night before, the driver was carrying on and on and on about this cross. And I said, "where???" I never saw the stupid thing. Well, when we were out on the water, it was just a tad easier to see. It's only something like 380 feet afterall.
Another view.
We finished up our trip at the St. Augustine Aligator Farm. These are bunch of baby aligators getting snuggly.
This is a rare albino aligator, found in Louisiana. He looks fake, but is real.
More aligators. There are 23 different species of crocodilians, this park has examples of them all.
I can't remember what this guy was called so I will say he's a freaky-blue-brow south American jay. Dang, David looked it up and says it's a Flush-Crested Jay. I like my name better.
David says this is a "red-knobbed thing"
Another "red-knobbed thing"
This is a Gharial. It's like an aligator with a long skinny snout and teeth like Austin Powers.
Horn-billed something or other.
The horn-billed again.
I can't remember what he was, so I will call him a Photogenic Horn Billed Poser.
Another species of horn bill.
Baby wood ducks. Awwwww.
Baby wood ducks and their mom.
A juvenile wood duck, trying to hide from the nut with the camera.
Momma and baby wood duck again.
Momma and both baby wood ducks.