Pre-Wedding Visit to Jacksonville!

We had a slight change of plans before our friend, Lori's wedding, so I called Grandmother the day before we were scheduled to leave and asked her if she might mind having houseguests for the next two nights. She said to come on, so we did! It was a wonderful treat to get to see her and rest at her house before heading up to St. Simons for the wedding weekend!
She took us to really neat place called the National Estuarine Research Reserves, near St. Augustine. They have a museum there where we watched a movie about estuaries, and then each child (even Liam!) was given a scavenger hunt to complete and bring back to the lady in charge. They searched all over the displays, completed and checked over their scavenger hunts, and then the lady gave them each nice prizes, coloring books and posters and stuff! It was a lot of fun, and we definitely want to go back and explore the next time we are down and have more time to play there!

It was funny how the pelicans were all just hanging out here, each in their own little group.

The girls are excited about manatees, but I was excited to see clams! All of those things sticking up out of the ground are clams at low tide! Pretty spiffy!

Cool trees that make you want to draw them. :)

They were fascinated by the sea foam, especially when it would blow and roll around. (And, yes, it was pretty CHILLY that day!)

Afterwards, we took them to ride on the St. Augustine carousel and play on the playground there.

It was Liam's first time on a carousel, and he LOVED it!

This was a really cool slide at the playground - all rollers! They LOVED it!