Days 77-87 Cape Canaveal to St. Augustine

We spent 3 great days in Orlando with our daughter, son-in-law and granddaugter at Disney World and were totally worn out by the time we left.  That is one active place!  Also, the weather here in Florida is hotter than Texas if that's possible. 

After leaving Cape Canaveral, we headed to New Smyrna Beach for one night and decided to go bike riding to the Publix grocery store which was quite a distance.  About half way there we noticed the clouds were getting very dark and once inside the store, the storm hit.  We had to stay there for about an hour until it let up enough for us to ride back to the boat.  Once we got back, it took the rest of the night to clean up the mess from the storm.  We hadn't protected anything and it was all soaked.

We left the next morning and headed to St. Augustine which was a very long day but we didn't want to make an additional stop along the way.  This will be our third night here and we've really enjoyed seeing this city which is the oldest city in America founded in 1565.  The first morning we were here I went to mass  with Mike at the local Catholic Church which is the oldest church in America.  Today we walked through the narrow streets of this old colonial city trying to absorb the history of this area which is quite interesting.  Mr. Henry Flagler left his mark here as well as in the keys.  We bought tickets on the red trolly train and rode around the city getting off and on as we saw things that caught our attention. 

We made a stop at the Fountain of Youth and of course I had to partake in a cup of the water to see if it would make a difference (ha ha).  That area was inhabited by the Timucuan indians for a thousand years before Pedro Menendez founded his first colony in 1565 and Ponce de Leon discovered the water that he believed was a fountain of youth.  We really enjoyed this tour.

Tomorrow we plan to tour the beautiful building which is now the Flagler College but was a gorgeous hotel build by Mr. Flagler and it contains the most extensive collection of Tiffany glass windows anywhere.  We will probably leave here on Thursday morning heading north.