Our Last Day

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For our last day in St Augustine, we decided to go stay in town, wandering the shops and watching the cannon demonstrations at the fort. Once again, things did not go as planned...

There was a cafe downstairs from our apartment, so we decided to go down and get some breakfast. All was well. Then the food showed up and Gabe suddenly got very snuggly. He refused to eat and spent all of breakfast leaning on my arm. It was rather odd, considering the fact that he’d been perfectly fine before.

Rather than going to the 10:30 cannon firing, we decided to go back upstairs and get Gabe more water and see if we could cool him off. He ended up falling asleep on my chest.



Bella really wanted to go to Barnes and Noble, so she and Pat did that while Gabe slept. Eventually he woke up and I got some food and water down him. I figured that maybe he was just wiped out from the trip?

Pat and Bella got home and Pat picked up Gabe to snuggle. Gabe responded by throwing up all over him.

After an hour or so, Gabe was acting much better, so we figured that it must be a freak thing. So we decided to go get some lunch. We ended up at a Greek place, so we had to get flaming cheese because, well, how often do you get to light your food on fire?



As soon as the food showed up, Gabe once again got snuggly. He didn’t get sick, but Pat and I ended up eating lunch in shifts while he slept.



We figured that if he was going to sleep on our chests, we might as well keep wandering, so we did. We wandered all of St George St while carrying Gabe with us and constantly trying to get him to drink more water. Then as soon as we sat down he’d fall asleep again.



We missed the cannon firings, but that’s just the way that life goes. Gabe managed to eat some plain pasta before bed and he’s fine this morning, so I think it was just a quick bug. Either that, his poor body was just done.

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