Hey guys, we are in St. Augustine, Florida, and I think we're going to see the whole city today, right?
We're gonna do a walking tour of everything.
So there's a trolley tour that you can get on, but we decided to walk it
because it's only about a mile and a half from end to end.
So I'm excited.
And we're going to see a bunch of fortresses starting off with this one: Castillo de San Marcos.
*boom*
*pow!*
and now the fort's under British rule.
The fort's really cool. You can go into each of the rooms,
and learn about the history of the fort. And you can see how the soldiers lived,
you can see some of the original doors like in the sallyway the heavy doors that we keep talking about,
you can see those.
You can see all the different countries that have ruled over it,
An interesting thing about the fort is that it's never lost in battle
It's been under siege many many times, but it's never lost. Every time has been handed over to a new country
it's because that country won a war somewhere else, and this was part of the agreement to hand it over
Lift the 24 pound cannon ball. You got this, Ees.
To the Powder Room!
Oh.
Originally, it was the gunpowder room, but it was too damp and so they ended up using it as a garbage pile.
Oh, dear.
Made it.
I'm standing in the moat right now,
and if you manage to get through this drawbridge, that puts you on this stone checkpoint.
But it's actually an island inside the moat. You're still not even in the fort
you've got to go across another drawbridge here to actually get into the fort
and that's where the heavy doors and the sally port is.
So it's like an extra set of protections here to get into this fort. Super cool!
The fortress is actually $10 each, but it's a National Park,
so you got the annual pass, this is included.
We stopped at Burger Bucket
Sliders!
It looks delicious.
I'm sorry Idaho Spud, but in college I had to pick candy with the worst packaging,
What is it?!!
So, the Old City Gate there was at one point the only entrance into St. Augustine.
Walking through the city gates back there puts you on St. George Street,
which is a pedestrian walkway. Lots of cool shops and just old cool things to look at.
There you are!
Hey there!
I lost you.
I found you.
So this used to be the Avero house. She was a wealthy landowner,
had three houses here in St. Augustine,
but now it's turned into a Greek Orthodox National Shrine.
So this is Jim Brock. You designed and invented this whole thing?
I started creating this in 1988, yeah.
Each instrument's still handmade today.
It's a Bamboo Saxophone. Right here, if you want to order one.
So we're nearing the end of St. George Street here. So far, Ees, what do you think?
Oh, I smell more waffle cones.
There are ice cream shops all over the place,
and then, a lot of resort style shops, so jewelry and art and resort-wear.
But it's really cool. This is great.
So because St. Augustine is the first, the oldest city in America,
there are a lot of "firsts" and "oldest" things in this town,
like this:
the oldest schoolhouse
oldest street
oldest public market
some type of first,
not really sure
oldest store
oldest tree
oldest catholic parish in the US.
This is the Plaza de la Constitución.
Tourists!
Where are we?
Down here to the old house, maybe?
Nooooooo, it's so far!
To the F..., to the?
No, we'll go up King Street and go see the Lightner Museum and Flagler College.
Plan!
So the front side of the building is actually city hall,
and then the back side of the building is the Lightner Museum.
That is one dirty looking cloud.
Whoa. This place is impressive!
Those are Tiffany windows.
Seriously, this hotel is something else! It's so pretty!
Hey look, a Tiffany window.
Check these things out! This place is like a fortress! That's crazy!
Lift it up, Ees! You got this!
Yes!
1598
But for real.
Yeah, that's really old.
That's old!
Some weird clouds going on now
But we also have pretty flowers. :)
This is such a cute street.
There's no surprise that there's a ton of people painting it. So pretty.
We got Kilwin's.
It's Marshmallow-S'mores-Amazingness, and it's fantastic,
so I'm going to put the camera away to eat this.
One of the random fun things about St. Augustine is that there's a lot of pirates walking around.
I don't understand it, but it's fun.
And now we're in, what is this?
Our Lady of La Leche.
"The milk chapel."
The Milk Lady.
This cross marks the site of the first mass that was ever held here in America,
and that was in 1565 which I guess is the birthplace of Christianity here in America.
So we parked right across from the Visitor Center,
which is a flat fee of $12 all day long.
and that was fantastic. Kept the car cool and our chocolate didn't melt.
Yes, we did buy chocolate in Florida while we're traveling in a car. :/
Look at this street!
So coming up here is...
the Fountain of Youth!
We're at the old jail
The prisoners that got put in there probably just danced.
Probably.
My butt barely fits in it. I think this is a kid's saddle.
This tree is over 600 years old.
No one knows how it survived for 600 years.
But it is just a few hundred feet away from the Fountain of Youth,
so maybe that has something to do with it?
Lighthouse closed at six.
But you can get close enough to it.
That's a pretty light house.
Oh, hi. :)
Hey!
We're done for the day. Yeah. We are done. We've done everything that we wanted to do. (kind of)
A lot of things close at 5:00 or 6:00, so be prepared for that and plan accordingly.
This is a second time now. We have not checked times.
See the Athens video.
So, oh well.
Subscribe because we are heading down to Orlando.
So if you want to see some Disney and some Harry Potter, possibly.
Yayyyyyyyy.
You can see all that.
Alright. We'll see you later. Bye!