Capitalizing on our three day weekend for President's Day, we decided to head down to Florida to see the other Watsons living on the East Coast. James and Michelle and family had moved to Jacksonville, FL after their fun job assignment in England (where we got to visit them as well). We finally made plans to go see them! It was a drive of around 6-7 hours with a stop at the Florida Visitor's Center on the border of Georgia and Florida. We got to try some fresh orange juice (we hope and assume it was made of FL oranges, but who knows?) and congratulated Mark on his return to his Motherland as he was born in Ft. Walton Beach, FL! He was so proud of it, it was hilarious!
On this picture below it's really hard to convince you that we are on a road trip in February, right!!?
The night we arrived we were able to meet up with James and family at a beautiful town of St. Augustine. It is actually the oldest town in the US, settled by Spanish explorers in the 16th century! It was very quaint and cozy. Unfortunately, none of my pictures turned out well as we took a bunch at dusk.
James had a fun idea to go to the Daytona 300 on Saturday we were visiting. Well...it's something you have to experience once in your life, right?
We had absolutely no idea what to expect.
Mark is just so excited--this is his "yay!" look.
These are all BEFORE pictures as in before we were so drenched in sweat that it was crazy:)
We found some awesome seats--none were in the shade though. People watching at this even was something else. The crowd it attracts is quite different from any other event:)
It's a good thing we had hats! It was in mid 80s by late afternoon and we were melting, taking turns who was going to go sit in the shaded area (entrance to the spectator area).
One thing for sure--it was LOUD!! Loud all the time!
Yes, it was very similar to Cars cartoons, but I didn't see any talking cars.
Three hundred miles is what these drivers had to conquer. I think that the first time a car crashed and all the spectators stood up and cheered, I was a bit appalled. I couldn't understand why anyone would be excited for a car crash. And then after the fifth car crash I realized that that is pretty much the only thing that these people come to watch here--hahaha. They want more crashes! And they want the laps to go on forever:))
We had extra laps and restarts in the last half an hour of the race because someone constantly kept crashing. It was crazy! I think it was something like the longest Daytona 300 ever because of it! We were kind of ready for it to be over:)
Here is our whole family! It was fun and we glad we did it:) One time 😆
On Sunday we got to hang out with the kids and go to church.
Mark, Carter and Alex.
Everett and Mark.
Katya and Mercedes, our only girls:)
On Monday morning we had some time to spare before leaving so we headed for the beach. The water was still very-very cold so only the kids were crazy enough to get wet.
A very foggy morning indeed!
Intermission: I wanted to share some of the pictures Katya took that weekend with her phone. I know she used a filter, but these are pretty neat!
Oh! Hi, Everett!
And on this fun note we headed pout to lunch and left for NC from there.
Our weekend was very fast but fun! Glad we made this trip!
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