Daytona: Day 1

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Greetings from Daytona! We can hear racecars from the boat! …wait. I’m getting ahead of myself.

Today was a great day- we left the St Augustine City Marina at 7am and took this picture almost immediately: Wow.

I also took this one of the marina- it would have been a great picture had I not been shaking the camera. Oh well.

Then we saw dolphins! And deer! No pictures of either, my apologies.

Docking was a breeze. Thrusters are so cool.

Once we got in and had lunch, we washed the boat- now it sparkles! Then we got to play with new boat toys! Check them out:

Pretty spiffy!

There are some pretty cool boats here, likely belonging to drivers. Will post pictures at a later date… haven’t wandered around yet-
no worries, we’re here all weekend. :)

thank goodness we're headed south...

Happy Birthday to Alice AND Mrs. Holt!!

**throws streamers and makes annoying noises with a party favor**

Welcome all! We're back on the boat!

We left the dock this morning at 7... were out of Doctors Lake by 7:20. Check out the sun rising behind the Doctors Lake Bridge. b-e-a-utiful!



it was 38 degrees. the windchill made it feel like 12 degrees.
...ok, so not quite THAT cold, but it was FRIGID.

Barry had a grand time watching me trying to throw/place/heave the bow lines around the pilings. (and I say "trying to" because I never accomplished it... he eventually came out and did it himself.) I'm already pretty awful when it comes to using the hook on the lines, but as cold as my hands were, there really was no hope.

Moving on... it was an awesome day (but any day that begins with a breakfast of Puppy Chow is bound to be- Thanks, Beck and Mrs. P!)

here are some pictures of beautiful Jacksonville- enjoy!









and here's a tug that decided to race us... I would have gone outside to take it but, seriously... it was cold.



Here's a picture of the St. Augustine Lighthouse... oh, and on that note, this was taken with Alice's new camera from ridiculously far away. We will apparently have less need to use our binocular/camera trick on this trip.



Now we're in St Augustine... just south of the Bridge of Lions.
We ate dinner at 95 Cordova- the restaurant at the Casa Monica. WAY good!
and check out this picture...



That's the menu I'm lookin at! it lights up! how crazy is that?! it was like one of those ridiculous birthday cards that you open and it sings...

what will they think of next?

We're headed to Daytona tomorrow- stay tuned!