As far as the honeymoon, we were fortunate enough to have been given Saturday night in a cottage near the wedding site, by D’s parents which meant we didn’t have far to go to relax. We stopped in briefly at D’s parents’ house to return the groom’s tux to one of the groomsmen and wound up staying for a bite to eat and a bit of a chat. Then we went back to the cottage. It took 25 minutes to unpin the hair-do which had taken almost two hours to put up!
Sunday morning we were brought breakfast at about nine a.m. by the cottage’s owners. Scrambled eggs, sausage, potatoes, pancakes, and fruit salad, with orange juice and coffee. It was funny to me that even though D and I had ordered our food seperately we’d both got about the same thing. Then we left for St. Aug. We made good time on the trip, despite the fact I thought we were lost given a lot of the ‘landmarks’ I’m used to seeing are now obscured by the fact the forest has replenished itself from the fires a few years ago, and there was far more green everywhere than I’m used to.
When we got into town we couldn’t check in because we were several hours early, so we left the car and wandered around down-town for a while, taking in the sites, and then after check in went up to Ponce de Leon mall to see “Ring Two” not as scary as the first one by any means. It was good in the beginning but wrapped up far too neatly for my liking. I resolved to track down “Spiral” and see what the actual author had wanted to do with the plot.
Sunday night wrapped up with a ghost tour. We had a wonderful guide called Linda who was very excited to hear that I had attended Flagler College. She primed me for a few titbits and actually asked me to tell a few tales of my own during the Flagler portion of the tour. Her tour was interesting to me, because rather than tell the time honored traditional St. Augustine ghost stories which I knew by heart at this point, she spoke instead of her own freaky experiences in the town and tales that weren’t so traditional, which made it all the better. Another interesting portion was that Zorayada House across from the college has such a tragic psychic history, and I had completely blanked on the fact that the house even existed, which intrigued D, who decided we should go back when there wasn’t anyone else there.
We also decided that in future we would park downtown, because while the hotel was fairly close it was too far for me to walk to and from as well as all around the downtown during the day. We stopped at Denny’s to eat supper, as we hadn’t eaten more than a shared muffin before the tour for not wanting to be late, before going back to the hotel.

We decided to try the fort, and do some sight-seeing. After a rather fruitless attempt to get coffee at several points between the hotel and the fort. We were staying at Historic District-Ramada, right across from “Nombre de Dios/Lady of La Leche”. We went to the fort, and wandered around. More of the fort was open than I’d ever seen, and we were disappointed to find out the weather was too ill for canon firing. We weren’t sure what we wanted to do after the fort, so we drove down US 1 and stopped for lunch at TGIFriday’s.
Then we went back by several of the sites we’d seen on the ghost tour, Lightner, and Zorayada house, and checked them out during the day. We stopped by the Museum of Weapons, but it’s store was the only part open, so then I took Danny around the college and pointed out areas of St. Augustine he knew from hearing me talk of my college time. We saw Lewis House, the Gazebo, and the Memorial Church, and then stopped at Backstreet’s for more than decent coffee. In the evening we went up to Fusion Point, a multi-regional Asian restaurant and had sushi: eel, smoked salmon & flying fish egg, followed by Thai Tofu Curry (D) and Chicken Stir Fry (me).
We drove back to downtown and wandered St. George for a bit, debating what we would do the next day, and taking in the stores which were still open. It started to rain around 9 p.m. and so we headed back to the hotel, passing several generic ghost tours sheltered under eaves on the way.

Had breakfast at Denny’s and then went across to check out Anastasia Island. We drove for a while but decided not to stop at any of the tourist-y sites. Instead D remembered I’d wanted to see if I could find a pentacle while we were around, checking the sites on St. George the night before had yielded nothing, and he caught sight of a mystic store, and suggested we stop. We managed to weird out the store owner a little, not so much because I selected the pentacle whose string got hooked into my ring, but because then Danny found a cross he liked and we said it was okay to put them both in the same box.
Then we drove back to the Nombre de Dios mission site, and walked around there for a while, looking at the Shrine and graveyard, before driving up to the Fountain of Youth, a place I actually hadn’t been while I lived in St. Aug and looked around there. We were disappointed to find out that the park passes were actually three-day given it was our last full day in the city, but the site had so much there it more than made up for the disappointment the fort had been. We got to drink the fountain water, and be stalked by wild peacocks. The Timacuan tribe who lived at the site, were on average 6-7 feet tall, men and women and lived to be at least 70 something unheard of by the Spaniards who were lucky to be over 5 feet tall and survive past 40. The site also had a planetarium, and showed us some interesting footage about Spanish conquests.
After that we drove back to downtown and went to Pizzalley’s so that we could have White Pizza. We did a little shopping downtown after that, making sure to stop and get home-made ice cream from Kilwin’s. It started raining again, so we headed back to the hotel and caught ‘Slingblade’. The next morning we had breakfast at ‘Schmagel’s’ a well-known, by the college students at least, bagel shop, and had a brief wander around down-town before heading home, and picking up more of my things from my parents house on the way.

We’re settling in, although it’s definitely taking a bit of getting used to, this married life. D was back at work the Wednesday night after we left. He’s unfortunately been declined from the sherriff’s department, and there’s still no word, positive or negative from LPD. Monday after taking me to work he picked up several other applications, and my current fun project is filling out an I-90 form so that I can get my green card updated, and donating the US CIS almost $200 in fees, because until the green card is fixed I can’t update my driver’s license or social security cards. I also just signed up for a summer term at FSU so that I can start again on my graduate degree, just one course for the summer though, to ease back in.

Please keep your fingers crossed for positive word from LPD for us ^_^