forts, rivers, movies and rashes (Day 3)

After such a long day on Tuesday, we wanted to relax on Wednesday so we just explored Jacksonville and took it easy. It was great to just take it slow and just enjoy spending the day together. We started our day at Fort Caroline. This is a fort for a French colony.

The Spanish attacked this Fort in 1565 and killed all but 50 people and then the Spanish built a fort of there own on the site which was destroyed later by the French. Fort Caroline wasn't too impressive and it was easy to see why it was so easy for the Spanish to attack. The cannons in the fort were pointing towards each other at the entrance to the fort...not terribly useful.

The sun came out after the visit to the fort so we walked along the river walk in downtown Jacksonville.

After relaxing at the hotel for a while, we went to go see Insurgent! I was really excited to see this movie and it was awesome! This series is one of the few that I think the movies are so much better than the books. We saw it in IMAX and 3D which was great. It had been so long since I had been to an IMAX and it was a lot of fun. After the movie, we went to Olive Garden for dinner and got cheesecake factory for dessert...so yummy!

In addition to going to a lot of fun places on our trip, Mike and I also got a chance to exercise on this trip. It was great to start each day by being active and waking us up. I love starting the day early. It makes it feel so much longer and I'm so much more productive. I just worked out in the hotel gym but Mike went out running in the city. He took a couple pictures on his morning runs. I really loved having the gym all to myself at the hotel but these pictures kind of made me wish I'd gotten to watch the sunrise with him.

Another eventful thing that happened during our trip was that Mike got hives! It really started on Tuesday that Mike started to itch and noticed some red bumps and patches on this arms and legs. We figured it was probably an allergic reaction to the bar soap in the hotel since that was the only thing that had touched his skin but I didn't use it. On Wednesday morning he was looking a lot better though. Then after lunch, he suddenly flared up again and it was a lot worse this time. It was all over him and it was so gross. I felt so bad cause he was so uncomfortable all afternoon. At this point we thought it might be the food we were eating but he ate each thing one at a time after we got home and had no reactions so its a mystery. Thankfully it was gone by Thursday morning and he felt much better and looked better too. I guess we'll never know for sure what caused the reaction, we decided though that it might have been an allergic reaction to Florida ;) Hope not though!