Monday, October 15th, 2012
St. Augustine & A Rocket Launch
Well, I’m back. I don’t even feel like I went on vacation until I look back at the pictures and then I’m like… oh yeah, I did that. I didn’t take nearly as many pictures as I should have, but I’ve rounded up a few of the ones that I did take to show you guys. I’ll probably do three or four short and sweet vacation posts, and then we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled program blogging.
Last Friday, October 5th, we left Pennsylvania around 1:15 and headed towards South Carolina so we could spend the night at a hotel, and split up the driving. We ended up getting stuck in DC traffic for 3 hours, and only got to the hotel around midnight. The following morning we drove the rest of the way to Florida and stopped at St. Augustine lighthouse on the way to our rental home. The walk up to the top of the lighthouse was horrible. I thought I was going to keel over, but I made it to the top and the view was so worth it.
After the lighthouse, we all drove to the rental house. We got there pretty late and it was already dark out, so I didn’t bother taking any pictures of the inside or outside. The next morning though, we spent most of the day at the house swimming, and just hanging out. The only picture I took of the house though, was one for instagram, so I’m sorry about the quality.
The rental house had an enclosed pool and spa, which we took full advantage of.
And I loved how you could look down into the living room and kitchen from the second floor. Makes it so easy to communicate with your 10 other roommates or throw laundry down.
The same day that we made it to Florida, we found out that Space X was going to be launching a rocket from NASA. Cape Canaveral was only about two hours away from our rental so we headed out to see the launch. It’s nothing like an actual space shuttle taking off, but it was still pretty cool to see and hear. It looks like the sun is out there in the water, but it’s actually the rocket taking off.
I’ll be back tomorrow with Epcot pictures!
Posted on May 19, 2013 - 16 comments
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October 15, 2012 at 10:10 am
That house is pretty awesome! Im glad you have fun! Its so crazy how fast vacations go and then you are kind of wondering where the heck all the time went
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October 16th, 2012 at 1:13 pm
It was an awesome house. I’d never be able to live there, but it was awesome. I couldn’t believe how fast it flew by!
October 15, 2012 at 10:10 am
That rental house is amazing! The enclosed pool area looks wonderful!
I’m sure the rocket was a cool thing to witness as well. Can’t wait to hear more about your trip : ) Glad you’re back!
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October 15, 2012 at 10:10 am
Glad you had an awesome vacation! It’s so cool that you saw the launch.
Can’t wait to see more!
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October 15, 2012 at 11:11 am
How cool that you got to see a rocket launch!
Can’t wait to see the pictures from Epcot. Mike always tells me how awesome it is.
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October 15, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Welcome back!! :)
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October 16th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Thanks Erika! :D
October 15, 2012 at 12:12 pm
It was fun seeing your pictures on instagram! I’ve been to that light house, which is so neat – and when I got home I saw it on one of those haunted places shows. Creeeeepy. Glad you had fun!
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October 16th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
That’s actually the reason we went! My Aunt knew it was haunted so she’s wanted to go for years!
October 15, 2012 at 1:13 pm
That house looks awesome! Glad you had a fun trip and got to see a rocket launch. I feel like that’s a once in a lifetime experience!
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October 16th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Some people that were there watching it, were there in 2009 when they did the space shuttle launch, and they said it’s way different than the cargo rocket. So I’m anxious to go to a space shuttle launch!
October 15, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Looks like a great place to vacation. I would love to see a rocket launch in person. Big time.
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October 15, 2012 at 3:15 pm
St. Augustine is so pretty! I love going through there! And it looks like you guys snagged a great house!
That rocket launch is so cool! I’ve never seen one so I’m kinda jealous ;)
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October 15, 2012 at 5:17 pm
I love that sectional!
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October 15, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Sounds perfect. I want to go on vacation…
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October 15, 2012 at 10:22 pm
I’m glad you had fun. The house looks amazing! It would be so much fun to have an indoor pool. Can’t wait to hear more about it.
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