 THURSDAY |
TRAVEL DAY |
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Our reason for stopping in this area is to visit the city of St. Augustine one more time before we leave Florida. We've been here several times in the last few years but one thing we've never done was climb the lighthouse. Hopefully that will change upon this visit!
The other thing we were hoping to do was revisit the two National Monument forts that are here. That unfortunately is probably not going to happen because while there is the government shutdown the forts, along with a lot of other Nation Park Service properties, are not open to the public due to no rangers working there to supervise the property or collect entrance fees. For the same reason we were unable to revisit the Canaveral National Seashore while we were out at the Kennedy Space Center at our previous stop.
Anyway back to the something fun we did, during the months of November through January, the downtown historic district merchants get together and display over 3 million white holiday lights all over the area. They call the event St. Augustine's Nights of Lights. The Old Town Trolley runs a 30 minute tour through the area, playing Christmas songs and handing out these 3D glasses that make all the white lights appear as snowflakes. It's really quite spectacular and has been an award winning St. Augustine tradition now for 25 years. At the end of the tour everyone receives a large sugar cookie and a small paper cup filled with hot apple cider. Yum! Yum!
 FRIDAY |
MOVIE NIGHT AT " THE POD " |
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Tonight's selection is a Robin Williams movie, RV (2006). It's a movie we have been looking for at all of the flea markets and finally scored a copy last week. For those of you who haven't seen it I'll give you a brief synopsis. Robin Williams play the dad of a mildly dysfunctional family who, for reasons I won't go into here, decides to take the family on an RV trip to Colorado instead of the Hawaiian vacation he promised them. Being a total rookie when it comes to all things RV related there are quite a few mishaps along the way. Some are traffic related, some are camping neighbor related and others are related to the less than perfect condition of the RV they have rented.
There are many zany moments throughout the movie which had us laughing out loud, always a good thing, because we could empathize with what they were experiencing, being relatively new to the RV world ourselves. This movie will probably become a semi-permanent member of our video collection of six.
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Between 1988 and 1992 Robin Williams was nominated three times for an Oscar as Best Actor in a Leading Role. Then in 1998 won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in what film? (Please, no Googling)
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 SATURDAY |
RELAXATION DAY |
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We walked around nearly every booth and managed to walk away with only one purchase. I know what you're thinking, more DVDs right? Wrong! Tricia found these little tiny glass bottles with cork stoppers in the tops for 50 cents a piece. We have been collecting samples of sand from the National Seashores that we have visited and plan to use the little bottles to display our collection in. They are much more attractive than the ZipLock sandwich bags they are in now.
 SUNDAY |
RELAXATION DAY |
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If you are at all interested in an in depth look at our new lifestyle, you should check out this video on YouTube, RV Nomads. It is an hour and twenty two minutes long and very well edited, narrated and produced by a bunch of RVers. It was just released on January 12th and already has over 96,000 views.
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