Drew and I took our annual trip to the site of our engagement, St. Mark’s Lighthouse. We had planned to go on the 31st, like usual, but the evil chocolate fondue that we consumed at 9 p.m. the night before wouldn’t let us. We were both wide awake until about 2 or 3 a.m. and since we had to be up early (earlier than the rest of our week off) to drop his mom off at the airport, we decided we would have been exhausted and wouldn’t have really enjoyed the trip. We postponed it a couple days and went on the 2nd instead. Kind of a shame, as the 31st was an absolutely beautiful day and the 2nd was quite a blustery day. Oh well. We made the most of it. Here’s the story in pictures.
We tried to find a new route and ended up on a muddy dirt road that we almost got stuck in. Had to turn around.
Found another road that we thought would cut through. No such luck.
It was rainy.
Finally on the right track.
Here we are!
Found a nice spot right by the water.
Found a belly up stingray in the water in front of the car. Still breathing!
Our carving is still there.
The view from where he proposed. We tried to eat our picnic lunch here and the wind chased us back to the car.
We took pity on the stingray and Drew found a stick and flipped it over. It didn’t seem to appreciate it much, and didn’t swim away, even after the tide was going out.
We took a walk on the beach for a bit.
Drew threw some bread on the beach and we caused quite a stir.
On our drive, we saw several of these. Someone has been Rudolph-ing a lot of deer signs in Florida… (if you can’t see it, the deer has a red nose)
We were too cold to stand outside and get any good pictures together. The only one we took was in the car.
We’ll hope for more sunshine and less wind next year.
Words I never thought I would hear from you: “evil chocolate fondue.”
Glad you had a good trip, despite crummy weather. 🙂