Walking the Main Street Bridge

One of my favorite things to do from time to time is to experience my city as a tourist...it helps you to see things in a new light and to appreciate the majesty and beauty of our surroundings! Alright, now dialing back the pretentious bs talk: there are always cool things to do in your city...enough so that an outsider would pay money to visit where you live and that goes for everyone!

In Jacksonville, we take for granted the fact that our downtown is right on a river and it's gorgeous. After a few drinks and dinner at Fionn Maccool's at The Landing, we took a leisurely stroll across the St. John's River on the Main Street Bridge to the Friendship Fountain which has recently been reopened after a $3.2 million renovation. It's really pretty at night because the bridges and fountain are lit up. Makes for a romantic ending to a wonderful evening :)

St. Patrick's Day on the St. John's River

Our first St. Patty's Day together in 2008...oh I hope I can find these wigs!

Looking for something to do tomorrow for St. Patty's Day? Come join me and Ryan at The Landing for a day of....fun...can't be more original than that, haven't finished my coffee yet. We'll be sailing down there tomorrow at 7 am (thanks a lot high tide*) to grab an Irish breakfast and we'll be there until Sunday morning. Come say hi and grab some of Ryan's homemade Octoberfest beer, we'll be the ones aboard The Perfect Temperature!

For more information about all the festivities, please visit their event website. Hope to see you there!

*If we do not leave our dock at high tide, we do not leave our dock. Before and after high tide, the water is so shallow that our boat sits on the ground/poop silt.