A Riverrats Adventures: Spring Break of a Lifetime

It's been awhile since my last post because honestly, I haven't really had any adventures. It's depressing to say, but it's true. I went to school, occasionally worked, went home and sat for awhile, then went to bed. As some of you may know I recently acquired a new job at the fantastic restaurant Ocean Prime where I'm now a pantry cook. It's not glamorous but it's in the kitchen and they take good care of their employees. With this new job has come a breath of fresh air, knocking the dust out of my lungs and has made me work hard again for a change. Now most of you know my philosophy of work hard so you can play hard. I started working hard and this spring break me and my wonderful wife have begun playing hard once again! We started the break off with a full day taking in universal studios including the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The day started out great with a ride on "The Hulk" then followed by butter beer, an amazing new ride all about Harry potter, Jurassic Park, and everything in between. After, we went and spent the rest of our cash on an order of crappy Chinese food(panda express) and crappy Mexican(moe's.) After gorging on orange chicken and tortilla chips with queso we decided to go see "The Lorax" and relax a bit in a nice cool theater. The next day we made a crazy little decision and adopted another little puppy and named her zoie... She was adorable but we realized that we didn't have the time to give her the love and attention she needed so we very sadly had to return her to her original owner.....I'm getting sad just thinking about it. BUT since then we've been informed that she has been adopted by a loving new family. The next few days we worked and worked but spent the mornings sleeping in going to breakfast and sometimes lunch and just spending some real time together. Then thursday rolled around. We had wanted to go kayaking at wekiva springs but it didn't work so we decided to visit St. Augustine instead. Holy awesome day! We drove the hour and a half out to the sleepy beach cruising to some of Brooke's tunes. We got there and went to the beach and swam and layed out...my very white back, shoulders and belly still haven't quite recovered from the wonderful sunburn I aquired :) After the beach we drove to town cause we heard it was neat. When we got there it was all we could do to park the car and start exploring!! That place was awesome! I haven't seen anywhere like it in the U.S. There is an old Spanish fort, tons of shops and little restaurants, and a killer little pirate museum. There's also ghost tours of some of the most haunted sites in the country and all over there were art galleries and little bits of history or something cool to do. We walked down the main small road and stopped in a bunch of shops on our way to the pirate museum. On the way we saw a small crepe shop so we stopped and got a crepe filled with cinnamon apples and caramel with powdered sugar sprinkled on top. It was super tasty and we chowed down quickly then continued on. We got to the pirate museum and were greeted by a guy dressed up in full pirate garb. Sword, pistols and all! We walked through slowly taking time to see everything and to read and learn all about the old sea dogs. We left and got a pic with the old pirate and continued on. We tried to go see the old fort but tours were closed so we saw what we could, then headed back to look for some dinner. Our budget for the day was pretty small, so any big restaurants were out of the question that day. We tried some local suggestions but everything was too expensive so we wandered until we found a little philly cheese steak shop and decided that was our stop! We weren't disappointed. The cheese steak was amazing and the jalapeno poppers were excellent! It really hit the spot and was easy on the cash. After dinner we eagerly looked for dessert....we knew just the place. Earlier in our search for sustenance we checked out a restaurant that was out of our price range for dinner but they had a dessert we couldn't resist. We went back and indulged in fried white chocolate banana cheesecake that had been rolled in cinnamon and sugar then topped with chocolate and caramel........it was amazing....I'm not a huge dessert guy but I would go back there just for this one dessert. Bliss!! We finished and slowly walked back to the car. We passed art galleries and old monuments on the way and tired and now very full we jumped in the car and drove home to end the amazing day. What a spring break folks! I'm sure I missed some stuff along the way but this post is already super long so I'll leave it at that. See ya!