St. Augustine

A trip to Shane and Lindsey's

 After exploring many new places over the past year I realized that there are many places in Florida that I have never been. Key West was one of them, which we covered for our anniversary trip, and St. Augustine was another. We have been trying to find a time to visit Shane and Lindsey since we moved back to Florida and we finally got the chance to go last weekend. They were wonderful tour guides and showed us all the hot spots in town.

 Since St. Augustine is the oldest city in America mostly everything we saw was appropriately old as well. The first stop we made was to Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest fort in America. Following the fort was the oldest drug store and oldest (wooden) school house. Lindsey and I climbed the 219 steps all the way to the top of the light house for a gorgeous view of the water. We could also watch Justin and Shane playing ultimate disc from their too! Later that night Shane gave us his walking tour pub crawl of his favorite bars. It was a great time and thank you Shane and Lindsey for having us <3

 

 

 

Meanwhile, this weekend I started working on setting up my classroom for next year. I picked a beach theme and am please with how it is coming along so far. I will post before and after pictures as soon as I am finished!

 

Keep you posted,

 

<3 L 

 



Key West

One Year Anniversary

  I am not sure where this last year went but it has come and gone. Justin and I are officially not newlyweds anymore and hit our first milestone of one year of marriage!  We picked Key West as our destination to celebrate.  It was my first time but Justin has been before (including his stag party last year).  We stayed in a typical Key West style B&B called Azul.  Unfortunately for us we did not get the best weather while we were there, but fortunately for us we both love the rain and didn't mind.  After two cancelled snorkeling trips due to weather we finally got to go.  I think I have more pictures of the two of us under the water than I do coral and fish.. haha.  Oops!  Besides our snorkeling trip we did the usual Key West activities like the Hemingway House, Mallory Square Sunset Celebration, etc.  My favorite part of the trip, however had nothing to do with Key West activities.

 














At our wedding last year we placed letters written to each other in a wine box to be opened on our first anniversary.  Reading the letters was my favorite part of the trip.  We have been through so much since those first letters were written and it was amazing to re-read those thoughts we had just days before we said " I do".  We wrote new letters to be opened next year and this tradition is one that I am loving!  It will be nice to have these years down the road as they collect and we grow together. 

 

  Speaking of traditions, typically we would have eaten the top tier of our wedding cake that we had in the freezer since our wedding day.  With us traveling this past year (and the less than appetizing feelings I get when thinking about that tradition) we did not end up saving our wedding cake.  Instead we had the baker that made our wedding re-create the top tier of our cake to take with us on the trip.  In my opinion we made the right choice here.  Yum! Besides the little piece of cake that we feed each other on our wedding day we never sat down and ate our cake, so it was nice to be able to enjoy a fresh version of it on our trip.

It was a fantastic trip and I am looking forward to what this next year will bring us.

Keep you posted,

<3 L