This morning started with a three cheese bake and citrus pancakes with a manderian compote plus the other breakfast stuff. We then decide to take a walk, past the oldest house in the US. Then we walked up what looked like alleys but were streets. The old beauty of the city showed through. Wood battened board houses, plaster coated walls and the original coquina material. We walked for a while then ended up a couple blocks past the St. Francis street, that put a water islet between us and the Inn. We sat in the outside veranda with a cup of coffee and the bright sun shiny day. Joanne and Don called and said they were blocked in there parking lot because of a dumpster on fire, after a couple of calls they were able to meet us for church. From our Inn we walked a couple blocks and found we had a little time before the noon mass. We walked the area but soon returned to be seated. The noon Ash Wednesday mass at Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine was starting to fill up with touring people. This website gives more info
http://www.thefirstparish.org/history.html
The church is really ornate, ceiling painted decoratively, walls with pictures of the founders of ST. Augustine. The mass proceeded as what we thought was usual but there were parts where they used the old Latin language for parts of it.
After church it is time for lunch. We decided on Harry’s Seafood Grille along the tourist street by the water way. This was the site of last nights Fat Tuesday and the maintenance guy said they had 5 broken windows and a broken mens bathroom door. Rowdiness seems to be the call for that day along with the beads slung high into the tree limbs. The gals grabbed a glass of wine Joanne the Chardonnay and Shirleen the merlot, the gents a mug of Yuengling beer. Joanne and Shirleen ordered the pecan crusted catfish, Don the She Crab soup and I a oyster poboy. After the meal it was time to head south, after a tour f an art store. Don got excited when we saw the $12,500 price tag. There were some metal art work pieces by a Minnesota sculpture forgot first name but a Mack. Hey Jim maybe a relative.
We headed to Carolyn and Dick A. home in Spruce Creek. With the traffic and back roads we travelled we were 30 minutes late but at least we let them know what was up. We had a fine plate of appetizers, strawberries now in full bloom, pecans and chips with an accompanying glass of wine. We then sat for dinner with a great tasting vegetable, chicken, saucy cheese and overlapped with a biscuit mix. We then went to the large meeting house. Here I could check my e-mail and saw the many rooms where play rehearsal was going on, billiards being played and two games of an Oriental game of which I cannot spell the name. After a couple hours of catching up we left for our hotel, Comfort Suites at The Villages. It was about 5 miles down from their home. Tomorrow we are headed up north, we ended up in the same Hampton Inn on JAX Beach. More about today tomorrow. jerr
http://www.thefirstparish.org/history.html
The church is really ornate, ceiling painted decoratively, walls with pictures of the founders of ST. Augustine. The mass proceeded as what we thought was usual but there were parts where they used the old Latin language for parts of it.
After church it is time for lunch. We decided on Harry’s Seafood Grille along the tourist street by the water way. This was the site of last nights Fat Tuesday and the maintenance guy said they had 5 broken windows and a broken mens bathroom door. Rowdiness seems to be the call for that day along with the beads slung high into the tree limbs. The gals grabbed a glass of wine Joanne the Chardonnay and Shirleen the merlot, the gents a mug of Yuengling beer. Joanne and Shirleen ordered the pecan crusted catfish, Don the She Crab soup and I a oyster poboy. After the meal it was time to head south, after a tour f an art store. Don got excited when we saw the $12,500 price tag. There were some metal art work pieces by a Minnesota sculpture forgot first name but a Mack. Hey Jim maybe a relative.
We headed to Carolyn and Dick A. home in Spruce Creek. With the traffic and back roads we travelled we were 30 minutes late but at least we let them know what was up. We had a fine plate of appetizers, strawberries now in full bloom, pecans and chips with an accompanying glass of wine. We then sat for dinner with a great tasting vegetable, chicken, saucy cheese and overlapped with a biscuit mix. We then went to the large meeting house. Here I could check my e-mail and saw the many rooms where play rehearsal was going on, billiards being played and two games of an Oriental game of which I cannot spell the name. After a couple hours of catching up we left for our hotel, Comfort Suites at The Villages. It was about 5 miles down from their home. Tomorrow we are headed up north, we ended up in the same Hampton Inn on JAX Beach. More about today tomorrow. jerr
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