Around Town in St. Augustine Part Two

Hope you aren't sick of my vacation posts already! I've still got the Wizarding World to go! But we're heading to the world's longest yard sale this weekend so I'm sure I won't be able to wait to post about that! Here is the last post about St. Augustine. There are a lot of tourist destinations in town. We didn't really want to tour any of them, but it was fun to go outside of them and take photos!

This fort is called the Castillo de san Marcos. My dad made us go there when I was about 13 and it was SO HOT and booooooring to a teenager. We had a lot more fun posing outside. We were laughing so hard and there is a busy road about 30 feet away. I love having friends who will be silly in public.

Maybe a new classic?

Remember when jumping photos got so popular? Now I remember why, they are so funny to look at later! Look at Travis!!!

And the classic "Holding up the fort" shot. Travis and I actually toured the fort when we stopped in St. Augustine two years ago. It is pretty interesting, but more bearable when it isn't 95 degrees!

Another cute house! I need a porch like this. 

I couldn't get over the trees! I love how so many of them have grown like this, like they are constantly being blown over.

We could see this lighthouse in the distance all week and had to go in for a closer look. Isn't it cute with those stripes?

And of course we had to go to Mellow Mushroom at least once while we were on vacation. It's tradition! I love that place. Some of the best vegan pizza in the world!

Yummmmm.

We also had to stop by the old jail. Lots of the trolley tours start in the parking lot and there are lots of shops in a little strip mall type thing. We didn't plan to, but we arrived after everything was closed. Which was fine, because then we could take as long as we wanted taking dumb photos.

I'm a little bummed we didn't see any gators the whole time we were in Florida! Unless you count the baby ones on display at a gas station we stopped at.

The old jail definitely had some of the best photo ops we came across during the trip.

I called the one with the dog! 

We were taking pictures posing under these gallows and I came up with idea of trying to look like we were being hanged. We talked about photo shopping ropes in but I think that makes it toooooo gruesome. This one made me cry I was laughing so hard. I love it! Another new classic!

Sometimes it is hard to get the perfect shot. There are probably over 100 of these.

Such a good pose. It works in every situation right?

On our way out of town we stopped at the Manatee Cafe for breakfast. For some reason it is hard to find vegan breakfast places so Travis and I are always thrilled when one pops up!

I kinda can't believe we didn't see a manatee either? This restaurant had a mural in the bathroom of a mermaid and a manatee. They are so cute.

I got vegan pancakes with bananas and walnuts. They were amazing!!

We also saw this beautiful baby in the parking lot of Publix TWICE. Isn't he/she gorgeous? There was someone sitting in there with him and now I wish I would have walked up and asked them if I could pet that sweet bulldog.

Thanks for being so great St. Augustine! It was the perfect beach town for us! 

Vintage Hunting in St. Augustine

We spent an afternoon vintage shopping in St. Augustine while there on vacation. I hadn't looked up any shops before we went because I wasn't sure if the friends we were traveling with would be interested. BUT on our way to lunch on day we passed a few antique malls and shops and had to take a look! What I really wanted was some kind of kitschy Florida thing, like this key rack...

 Kinda loved that monk cookie jar.

 Those squirrel salt and pepper shakers almost fit the bill.

 What do you think that metal container is? It looks like cake carriers I've seen but it's so tall, maybe 20 inches? It was covered with fun stuff to do like skiing and swimming and driving fast!

 I'll take that chalk bulldog! Or the eagle!

 This pink place was called A Step Back in Time. 

It had the most bakelite/celluloid/early plastic I've ever seen in one place! This case had shelf after shelf of it! I loved the little stands they were using to display the bangles.

I looked in here for a LONG time. I'm not really a jewelry wearer but it's fun to look at. There were so many brooches I would have loved to bring home! But the prices were very high.

See how cute the stands are? You can actually see what I decided to bring home in this photo. You can probably guess...that pink dog brooch!

I'll take the flamingo, and is that a lobster?!

 Celluloid cat charm with googly eyes!

  Don't those rings look cute stacked up like that? 

 I was excited to see this bakelite brooch! The style is the inspiration behind so many of the beautiful pieces sold by Luxulite. And look at that price tag! $450! Is that insane? I don't know much about bakelite prices really, but geeze!

 There was so much good stuff in these display cases! I could have looked all day! I really need a glass display case for my house.

 Beautiful flamingos!

 Those chalk grumpy babies were amazing too.

 And you know I'm always down to browse some vintage Christmas.

We had a lot of fun browsing, even if I only made one purchase. I'll always think of this amazing trip when I wear it.

Wolf's Museum of Mystery!

We stumbled on this place while I was trying to get us to what I thought was a vegan shoe store (it wasn't, and all the shoes were lame anyway). All four of us are into the weird and gross so this is right up our alley! It was five bucks to get in and totally worth it!

The "museum" is the personal collection of a man named Wolfgang Von Mertz. There is lots of taxidermy, weird occult stuff, a real vintage iron lung, even a mummified falcon! Displayed next to x-rays showing what was inside! So much cool stuff!

 There were two cats, a black chincilla, and a HUGE dog walking around in there too. 

 They had quite a few art pieces by Butch Anthony, who has is own Museum of Wonder in Alabama that I really want to visit someday! I LOVE his art. The skeletonized paintings are my favorites. He sells them on his etsy. I want one for my collection!

 They had a taxidermy giraffe! Look at that beautiful thing!

 That is a picture of Robert Wadlow, one of the tallest men to ever live, at 13 years old! Amazing!

 I have been wanting a vintage baby caiman and this desk set is pretty incredible. Look at those bookends!

 They had a Lizzy Borden display that was supposed to be her. That is a real human skeleton! I went to an estate sale once that had one, but it sold before I could get there to see it. The photos in the back are of Lizzy Borden's father and step mother's skulls. I'm not really into serial killers and murderers but this room was really interesting.

 Elephant foot bar stools! See the cat on them? It seems so strange to me that a big game hunter would want to bring these big feet home and have them as bar stools.

Part of the upstairs was a horror movie room you can rent out to watch movies with your friends. Doesn't that seem fun? Marc and I got REALLY freaked out by this big werewolf statue that we were sure was going to move. We spent about and hour and a half at Wolf's and totally recommend it if you are into the weird and wonderful.