Yo-Ho Way to Go!!!!!!!!!

Last weekend we decided to take Maddy to this Pirate Museum in St. Augustine that I read about. We have never been there and Maddy is ALL about pirates lately! She loves Peter Pan and now is crazy about the new show Jake and the Neverland Pirates so I knew that she would love this. Plus, the past few weekends we have been so busy doing things around the house etc. that we were ready to spend a day off together as a family doing something fun! We got to St. Augustine and let Maddy run around a bit on the grassy area near the fort. She had a blast running up and down the hill!

Next we headed over to the museum. As soon as Maddy saw the flags she was saying, "It's a yo-ho! It's a yo-ho!!!!" It was a great museum they had real artifacts from pirates, a real wanted pirate poster, props from the movie Pirates of the Carribben, and even one of the only origional Jolly Roger flags! They also had intereqactive exhbitis where you could fire a gun and fire off a cannon. The loud cannon noise scared Maddy and she also wasnt a fan of the movie room. They had head phoines that you put on and it tells a tale like your on a real boat, it gets pitch dark in the room excepot for a lantern. Yeah, she was NOT a fan of that, we left that quickly! One of her favorite things was this fake pirate who was asleep in this glass display. He saw laying down and his chest moved up and down like he was alive. Maddy thought this was so cool. After we left she was telling everyone, "He MOVES!!!!" The exit was through the gift shop (isn't it always! lol!) and so we got Maddy some gold doubloons like they have on Jake and the Pirates. The only bad thing was they wouldnt let you take pictures in the museum!!!! : (

After the museum we went down the Old Street and then had lunch and picked up some Diary Queen on the way home. I love days like this!