The Sentinel of the Sea at St. Augustine

In 1513, Ponce De Leon visited this area searching for the Fountain of Youth. Maybe, we'll find it. St. Augustine is the oldest city in North America, founded in 1565, on the feast day of St. Augustine. The light house, in the photo, was built in 1874, as the area grew to be a winter retreat for wealthy northerners.

We are definitely back north and out of the tropics, no lovely palm trees everywhere you look. Mel t0ld me that the party is over and back to reality, whatever that means as we continue to live this life style.

We had lunch at a great little Italian restaurant, Carinos' Country Italian. We plan to go there all week until we have eaten through their menu. Yes, it is that good.

It is Friday, Movie Day so we saw Freedomland, with Julianne Moore and Samuel L. Jackson. It is a very overwrought and confusing movie-a real time waster. It was so hard to follow that I fell asleep through part of it and nothing happened while I was out. Good actors were wasted in this turkey. Then, we saw Disney's Eight Below, a true tale about the survival of a dog sled team, pure Disney, but not Old Yeller. If you have young ones, go for it and if not, go for it anyway, it is good for you. Mel and I did ponder as to why anyone would go to Antartica, but we are not true adventurers-we like our creature comforts. All that snow, ice, blizzards and hardship-Yikes!