A real castle!!

On the way home from our vacation at the beach we took a short detour up to St. Augustine. Harvey's intention was to teach the girls a little bit about Florida history by visiting the fort (Castillo de San Marcos, although everyone here just calls it The Fort). The girls, however, were mostly just excited at the prospect of visiting a real castle! To their credit, they didn't seem all that disappointed when they realized it did not, in fact, look like Disneyworld.

I like all the Spanish history of course - here's the Castilla y Leon crest.

Harvey explained that this magnificent view was really about protecting the fort and the city from pirates by having lookouts watching the water.

 

Resli even showed some interest in how it all worked...

And they both listened patiently to the explanations.

Lela's attention did tend to wander though...

And truth be told, it was hot and pretty uncomfortable. 

So after a quick look around up top and a quick tour of the rooms below, we called it a day and went exploring for lunch.