On Nov.9th we went to one of the oldest forts in the USA called Castillo de San Marcos. It was so cool. We got a booklet to fill out about all the history of how the Spanish came and survived in the area. They built this fort to survive attacks from the British navy and from pirate ships. What the Spanish built in the 1600's is still here today. The fort was built from coquina, a really cool material made out of rocks, shells and plaster, that cannon balls couldn't wreck. The fort was attacked many times but was never taken down.
Here's a picture of us with someone dressed as a Spanish soldier. He must have been hot in those clothes.
Here's us getting our booklets. We had lots of work to do in it and even had to write an essay. I'm glad I'm writing an essay here instead of at school.
Every day at 1:30 they do a cannon shooting ceremony. They are really old but they still work as well. It was very, very loud. My favourite part was that they shot bread out of the cannon and all of the birds came flying to eat the bread.
Here's us watching the cannon fire!
This is my daddy and me pretending to fire a cannon.
This is us after we completed our booklets and got our badgets and certificates. Now I'm a junior ranger!
This is me standing in front of the oldest school in the USA. The chain that you can see is attached to an anchor so that the school won't blow away in a hurricane. Amazingly it works because it has been here for more than 300 years without going anywhere.
We stopped to drive on the beach just outside of St Augustine. Mommy and daddy didn't want me to get wet so I was just getting my feet wet while I was playing. I didn't see a giant wave coming but by mistake I got flipped over onto my head.
This is me after I got soaked....I even had shells in my hair.
This is us out for dinner with my Aunt Mary. We are visiting her for a day and went out for pizza to Napoli Pizza.
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