Now this sounds like fun!

I was checking out this website for St. Augustine, Florida, and in particular, the Events in St. Augustine, which happens to be the oldest city in the Nation, and because of that it's also known as "Ancient City". One thing that I thought looked really neat to take in when you're in the area, or if you life nearby, is held the last Saturday of every month. They call it "Uptown Saturday Night". I like the name too. It reminds me of the olden days for some reason.

Taking place in the antique district on San Marco Avenue, there are all kinds of antique shops that will stay open from 5pm to 9pm on these Saturday nights. All the shops will be serving refreshments, like wine and such for the patrons while they shop and enjoy the live music happening on the street. The book stores will have authors present for book signings and some may be doing readings from their books. There will be artists milling about in the art galleries for you to meet and talk to about their work.

Over on Aviles Street, which by the way happens to be the oldest street in America, you can park for free at the Mission of Nombre de Dios, which is the home of "The Great Cross". This cross stands over 200 feet high! You can also check out the Ripley's museum, which also stays open for Uptown Saturday Night. If you don't have plans for this weekend, you could head there and check it out. The next event takes place this Saturday, October 27th, and if you can't make it this month, mark your calendar for next month's event, which will be happening on November 24th.

I wish we had something like this event around here. I think it would be a fun way to spend a Saturday evening, taking in the sights and sounds, while strolling up and down the streets and checking out the cool shops. With St. Augustine being the oldest city, I can just imagine what kinds of neat treasures could be found in the antique shops! I love poking around in flea markets and antique stores to see if I can find some kind of nifty old gadget or funky old bauble. And the antique linens I'm a sucker for! You just can't find anyone these days that does the intricate embroidery that the ladies from bygone days used to do. I wish I had the time and the patience to attempt trying to recreate some of these designs they stitched on pillow cases and such.

So now I have another place to add on my places I want to go. St. Augustine is now there, and when the time comes that I do make it to this Ancient City, I'll be sure to be going there when I can take in one of these Uptown Saturday Nights!


Olivia

They're heading south

A friend of mine at work and her family are taking a family vacation this coming week. They've got two young boys -- 8 and 10, and those boys are so excited to be having their first trip to Orlando!

I was telling Kelly (my co-worker) about Orlandofuntickets.com, so her and her hubby checked it out and they were pretty impressed with the prices, and therefore purchased their tickets through this website. They got the "Magic your way" tickets, but I don't remember exactly what kind of package they choose for those. They got tickets to Kennedy Space Center, which their two boys are ecstatic about... probably more so than they are about Disney World! They also got Universal Studios Tickets. They bought the tickets where they can go to the actual Universal Studios, which Kelly is excited about, as well as Islands of Adventure, which again, the boys are freaking over!

I can't wait until they she gets back to work to tell us all about it. I know they'll have great time, but boy oh boy, I think I would need a vacation after that kind of vacation! They're going to be busy busy busy and my feet ache just thinking of the walking they'll be doing around those parks!

Olivia

March break madness

This past week at work has been pretty busy. A lot of people were coming into the bank to purchase travelers cheques and US cash from us. In fact, at close today I only had $14.00 in US currency left in my till. I went through over $6000.00 of it today alone! Of course today was insanely busy because it's the last day of school here for a week. Next week is March break in the schools here, and that is a notorious time when people go on vacation with their kids. It's a great time of the year to head south and get away from the nasty weather we've had lately. I know I'm tired of looking at ice and snow myself!

Many of our clients are heading to Orlando, and taking their kids on a Disney vacation. Because I've worked in the same branch for so many years and am very comfortable talking to many of our regular clients, I was asking some of them if they got any good deals on Disney World packages. Most of the people I talked to had looked online to find deals for their trips, and only a couple had actually had their travel agents look into this for them. Personally, I'm not big on letting a travel agent scour out a deal for me. They're busy enough booking trips for all of their clients, and I think it's better to hunt down the deals yourself on the Internet. I think I would be more apt to put in longer time ensuring I've got the best deal possible, than what a travel agent would have the time to spend doing that for me.

At any rate, I'm not going anywhere in the near future, so I don't have to worry about making travel plans myself or having an agent do it for me. Unless I win the lottery this weekend of course! ;-)


Olivia

Twister Flight

One of the girls from work came back after vacation today. She and her family went on a West Caribbean cruise. Nice! They sure picked a good week to go too, because it was so frigidly cold last week. But she was telling us today that their flight down to Florida was a pretty scary one. While they were flying over mid Florida, was the same time those tornadoes were wreaking havoc. She said they literally felt like they were on a roller coaster, and had no idea what was happening to the land below them until later on that day. That's freaky!

Olivia