March 28

Up with the sun, still trying to catch up the blogs...it takes a really long time to get the pics loaded...A couple of KOAs ago, I found a USA sticker for the RV with state stickers to add as you travel through so today we finally had a little time to adhere it to the RV....the kids enjoyed being able to add the stickers for the states that we have traveled through thus far:

California

Arizona

New Mexico

Texas

Louisiana

Mississippi

Alabama

Fort Castillo de San Marcos

Today, we will travel through Georgia and South Carolina to our next stop on Hilton Head Island.....first stop on the way will be in St. Augustine to see the oldest inhabited city in America (we visited the Fort Castillo de San Marcos)....beautiful, right on the water, many boats and old architecture....Christian, of course, was enthralled by the cannons and fortified effects of the walls of the fort....we stood at the original entry gates of the city, it gave my heart a pitter pat to stand in the space where so long ago the explorer Ponce de Leon once stood and where wars were fought by Spain and Britain to keep or gain control of the area.....this is why we are here......

....at the city gate of St. Augustine.....

Add caption

Christian with the cannons at the fort...

ok, traveling northward we made our way to Jekyll Island, one of the islands that we will be visiting today. 




Hurrying all of the way, we reached the Georgia Sea Turtle Rescue Center with just short of an hour to visit before the closed.  Although it would have been nice to have a little more time her, it was just enough to go through the visitor center, see the patients in the hospital area and look for the box turtles in the outside area......it was a great review of facts that Christian, Brookie and Brittany remembered from their Swimming Creatures class from 2 years ago, amazing the things that they remembered.....I’m so glad that we got to go there

the turtle in aqua is a full grown loggerhead turtle....big!!

the turtle named Tim.....in the hospital area...

.....back into the RV to drive 2 hours north to Hilton Head Island......we arrived around 9 pm, early by our standards of late....checked into a beautiful suite at Pam’s time share(Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort) and settled down the kids for the night.....the weather is beautiful so I sat outside on the huge deck attached to our suite.....internet worked great until it froze while I was trying to post to the blog and it deleted all that I had just worked hours on......how fascinating, time for bed.....will try fixing tomorrow.......