Pirates!

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Sometimes you have days where nothing turns out the way that you plan. That was yesterday.

We headed out to Fort Matanzas. We had two different people on Tuesday tell us that we definitely needed to go out there, so we did. However, there was a storm planning on coming through, so they canceled the ferry to the fort and we didn’t feel like waiting for another hour, so we left.



As we were getting back to town, the storm hit. Really, it wasn’t bad, it just poured for a few minutes. Those just happened to be the few minutes that we were trying to figure out where to eat lunch and deciding if we were willing to even get out of the car. 

After lunch, we went to the Pirate museum. St Augustine had a huge pirate heritage and the museum was amazing!



Gabe had a great time exploring.



This is one of two actual jolly rogers still in existence.





They had a cannon you could fire. I fired it while Gabe was about a foot away and he jumped so far! He refused to try after that.



We headed back to the house and everyone took a nap. After two hours, I decided that I should wake up Gabe. I got him up, but clearly he wasn’t actually ready to be awake yet. He kept falling asleep on my chest, which I didn’t really mind.



We decided to walk around town for awhile before dinner. This was a great plan. However, everyone else must have had the same plan as there was no parking anywhere. We circled all the lots multiple times and couldn’t find anything anywhere. So after driving around for 45 minutes, we decided to go back home and consult the map on the phone. We ended up finding the most amazing ice cream place. It wasn’t in the cute, historic part of town (with the complete lack of parking), it was in a strip mall. But it was so good that the location doesn’t matter!

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