The weather was beautiful - 70 degrees, sunny, a nice breeze off the water, and the tour was very informative. It took covered most of the historic sites in Saint Augustine in a little over an hour. Some of the highlights were:
The Century Plant - Supposedly blooms every 100 years and then dies only to regrow again.
The Old Senator - a 600 year old live oak tree fabled to have it's roots in the Fountain of Youth.
All of the Flagler architecture highlighting tons of Tiffany stained glass. Turns out Saint Augustine is where Tiffany got his start.
Magnolia Street:
The Castille:
Really there was just too much interesting stuff to list it all here. I highly recommend taking a tour if you are ever there.

After the tour I met up with my husband back at the hotel - which was much easier to find this time around. From there we drove onto the beach right next to the hotel. I love how you can drive on the beaches in Florida. We walked around for a few minutes and picked up some seashells to take home to the kids. Then we headed off to the downtown shopping area.

This is one of the neatest parts of Saint Augustine. Each shop is unique, and there are no big chain stores. They have every off the wall little boutique you can imagine and then some. One of my favorite shops is a chocolatier called Claude's. We walked around there for a little while and then headed off to a New Orleans sty1e seafood place called Harry'sfor dinner. The food was great - so great that we went back there the next night despite the fact we had hundreds of restaurants to choose from. If you are ever in Saint Augustine, seriously you have got to try Harry's. I was pretty much deliriously tired after dinner. I nearly passed out from exhaustion in the car on the way back to the hotel. I slept like a log that night. One of those sleeps where you wake up the next day and can't remember where you are or how you got there.