St. Augustine and Atlanta

We had a great last couple of days and have made it safely to Memphis, TN. Our last day in Jacksonville was great! We went to St. Augustine (the oldest city in the U.S.) and had a yummy lunch at Tijuana Flats. St. Augustine was cool but very hot! We went to this huge fort that used to protect the city and heard about the whole history behind the thing. It was cool. We then mainly walked around the rest of the city. It was really cool with a bunch of fun shops and old buildings. We saw the oldest school house in the U.S. that was pretty cool. We stopped at Tijuana Flats on the way home for lunch. It was pretty good. They have this hot sauce bar with about 20 different kind of sauces. The owner has invented the hottest sauce in the world. Doug and I tried it thinking that it wouldn't be much and we ended up paying for it the rest of the day. It was soooooo spicy! It was like nothing I've ever tasted before. The food was great and so were the rest of the sauces.

We then had a great time relaxing with Stu and Hiromi (the boys actually went to go see Transformers while us ladies relaxed) and we enjoyed a great homemade Japanese dinner of cabbage pancakes and gyoza. It was great! We went swimming one last time and then went to Atlanta the next day.

When we got to Atlanta we went to check into our hotel. We had booked a Super 8 online (we stayed at a really nice one in Aurora, IL so we thought it'd be great) but it was the spookiest hotel ever! It was surrounded by a bunch of strip clubs and the place smelled like cheap cologne. We decided that it wasn't worth it to risk our lives (or to have our car broken into) and so we quickly booked another room in a better part of town. The other hotel we booked was just as run down but it was in a much safer part of town. After checking in, we went to dinner with Doug's friend Taylor and his wife Jessica. We went to Ted's Montana Grill (it's one of Ted Turner's restaurants). They specialize in Bison and everything we had was fabulous. We then hung out with Taylor and Jessica for awhile and watched "The Messengers" (it had moments of scary thrills but overall was pretty lame). We then headed back to our crap hotel for the night and left bright and early this morning. We made it to Memphis this afternoon with a quick stop at Graceland (only to find that our camera was out of batteries so sorry no pictures!). We are now at our hotel and we're going to go to dinner with one of my old high school friend/college roommate Arianne who is here working in Memphis. I'm excited to see her again. I'm also excited to be in a nice, clean, and safe hotel! We're heading off early tomorrow to Stillwater, OK and I'll post more then!

Total mileage for today: about 400
Lowest gas price for today: $2.74 (but don't worry, we got it for $2.88)
Biggest surprise for today: I didn't know that the Talladega Motor Speedway was in Alabama (or "Bama" as all the signs indicated). Apparently I haven't seen the movie!