Friday February 13, 2009

We slept in a bit this morning - we must really have been tired. We spent part of the morning doing errands: laundry, bills, etc. By 10 we were ready to go out and enjoy the day - and what a glorious day it was - sunshine and close to 80! We went to Mission San Luis first. This is a reconstructed Spanish mission which housed Spanish soldiers and families as well as Apalache Indians from 1656 until 1704 when the fort and mission were destroyed by the British. They did a lot of archaeological work on the site before reconstructing the buildings so what we saw today looked very realistic. The native buildings were round with thatched roofs while the Spanish buildings were rectangular (using the Golden Rectangle - all you math geeks). We had a lovely time checking out everything and our time was enhanced by chatting with the many costumed guides that were on the ground and in each building. We spent about four hours there and then decided to enjoy the beautiful weather by staying outside so we went to see the Lake Jackson Mounds. These are earth temple mounds built and used by Native Americans whose time there probably peaked about 1200 AD. After walking around a bit and climbing on a couple of the mounds, we decided to get something to eat. We finally found a Pizza Hut and ate at 3:15 - we will have the leftovers for dinner tonight. We came back to the motel and read for a while and will probably stay in tonight. I heard from the girl at the desk that Extreme Makeover is building a house in Tallahassee next week and I saw one of the camera men unloading his car in the parking lot so I assume some of the crew is staying at our motel. I'll let you know if I see Ty!