Old St. Augustine - Another Pleo Field Trip

This past Sunday, my family and I went to old St. Augustine. It is the oldest city in the United States, much less Florida. Beautiful city with cobblestones streets, live music, wonderful shops, and a great history. Crusoe got to see the fort, which is made entirely of coquina stone. And a boat going along the intercoastal shot off a cannon in the fort's direction, which was very cool. No cannon ball of course, just the cannon, so out of the blue, you just hear the biggest explosion. Wellll....Crusoe did NOT like that. He was just meandering along in the grass, nibbling on leaves when he thought an asteroid impacted Earth. Poor guy. Took him a bit to calm down. I was surprised it took him so long to chill out. Then they shot another cannon, just as he had started to calm down. Once that was over and Crusoe chilled out, we went for a walk. The wall around the fort is right on the water's edge, its tall and wide, wide enough to walk on, so we walked along. I carried Crusoe. Halfway around the wall, he got really really antsy, he really seemed to want to get down or something. But I wouldn't put him down...remember, the wall is right ON the water. Its like walking on a rocky jetti. There was no way I was gonna risk him falling in. So after that, we went walking along on the streets. I carried Crusoe most the time, the cobblestones were too hard to walk on. And the times we had him down, the comments were great... "I like your dinosaur" "Look at that" "OMG" "Hey, look at that do---no, its a dinosaur" was my favorite one. We of course took the time to talk a little about Pleo to those who asked. He went into the ice cream place with me and entertained the line as well with his "ta-da" and "singing". It was not as exciting as Universal, but it was still a fun and relaxing day. It was the first time he saw the intercoastal waterway and boats. Made me wonder what may have been going on in his dino-brain

Posted March 04 at 18:32 PM