Let me first clear up why my trip was indeed psychotic. I left work and got on the train at 7:30PM on friday, arrived at 9:30 in the morning Saturday, spent 2 days in Saint Augustine, got back on the train for another 14 hours and then went straight to work from the train station. All of the things that happened on the trip are additions to the craziness of the whole experience. I am back now and overall I had a good time. I won't actually get into the fun stuff until PartIII though so hold tight on these first two. :D

PART II

After all of that excitement of the crazy lady, I decided to go ahead and call Avis (the rental car company I had made an online reservation with) to arrange for them to pick me up at the train station. To my surprise, I had no reservation and was told over the phone that Avis doesn't do pick-ups in that area. Mind you I already talked to them when I made the reservation to make sure this was possible and was assured everything would be fine and all I needed to do was call one hour before arriving at the station. I was getting kinda worried at that point so I called Enterprise and they were much more helpful and made a reservation on the spot and gave me the number to call to get picked up. However, the Enterprise office didn't open until 9AM and my train was arriving at 9:15 so there was a bit of a time crunch. Also, when I finally reached them they had no cars. Yeah, a rental car company with no cars. Somehow they managed to locate a car and pick me up complaining the whole time about how they had too many reservations and no cars. Fun thing to listen to after not sleeping the whole night, not eating, and listening to wailing and cursing for hours on end. I also opted to wait until I got off the train before eating breakfast. Had I known how long it was going to be before I had the opportunity to eat I probably would have stomached the prepackaged bagel on the train.

After I got the rental car I headed toward Saint Augustine and then quickly realized I had no idea where I was going. No maps, no directions, nothing. I did have a general idea where the place was in relation to the train station so I made my way to the southbound highway and called my husband who was at work. I am actually very good with directions and can find my way to and from most places without much trouble, but I swear I have never been so lost and confused in my life.Lack of sleep and hunger just compounded the issue. I can pretty assuredly say that my husband and I see the world from a totally different vanatage point. Every time he attempted to give me a direction I got more and more confused and eventually just hung up on him out of frustration. I just can't navigate based on a merry-go-round that I can't find, and he can't navigate base on street names and road numbers. Oh, and I refuse to ask directions which ticks him off to no end. :D So basically it took me forever to find the hotel but I finally did, and it was actually a very nice hotel. Once I took a shower and located an IHOP so I could eat breakfast at 2PM I felt much better. So much better that instead of going back to the hotel and sleeping I decided to ride around on a tour trolley.

I promise it gets better from here. :D