Day 11 - June 10, 2011

Day 11

June 10, 2011

I woke up early, refreshed.  That was good, because I needed to pack & load the car.  I grabbed Cammy and went for a coffee/grocery/oil change run.

Marcie made an awesome breakfast for us and we were on the road by 11.  I took the back roads through Ocala and arrived in Tallahassee by 4.

Our hotel was 2 blocks from the capitol and it was a nice hotel with a nice staff.  However, there was a girls’ softball team in house and they were rocking the pool (our room was poolside) at 10:30p.m.  Life on the road...

Before dinner, I took the kids on a mini T-Town tour.  We went to the Capitol and then north on Monroe, to the Sheraton Tallahassee, where I used to work.  It was abandoned!  Shocker...once was one of the nicer hotels in town.  Everything had changed, but then again, it'd been over a decade since I'd been there.

I took the kids past FSU, but only recognized the old round Holiday Inn.  My old apartment was a nasty dump.  Couldn't believe it.  Times have changed...

We had dinner at Chilli's - quite the government happy hour crowd.  Back at the hotel we watched game 5 of the NHL finals...Bruins lost:(.

Quote of the day: 

At Publix, Cammy wanted gum, and I bought what I thought was gum - but turned out to be lifesavers.  I explained to him that you suck them for a while and then they disappear.  Two minutes later, "Mommy - it's still in my mouth and it's spicy - turn around and go back to the store, I need to talk to the manager!"

Sarasota – Tallahassee

318 miles/5 hours

Hotel:  Tallahassee Courtyard