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Cummer Museum

I went back to Cummer Museum (with my mother but it was her first time of course) and good plan, as a student (officially, I’m not anymore, but my card is valid until 2017!) my entry was free.
Every Tuesday evening (16h-21h), the entry is also free for all.

As we arrived in the morning at the museum and we wanted to embark on a late afternoon shopping in San Marco, we had lunch at the museum café (open all day but closes one hour before the museum itself) and truthfully, I still drool over thinking about this salad. I think it was all in the seasoning but we absolutely enjoyed it – this is also why my plate is already well underway on the photo, I forgot and I rarely am so thrown on a plate!

And this time I saw the gardens! They were closed when I came at night in December. It’s beautiful! At the edge of the river… I want a garden like that one day (well except that I will live in a rotten shack in the forest in the mountains with my husband but it’s not the subject).



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Categories: Florida, Jacksonville Addresses, Museums, Travels

Merrill Museum House

When leaving the Veterans memorial wall on the way to the supermarket, we came across this house by chance.

It’s actually a museum. It belonged to James E. Merrill who did a lot for Jacksonville’s economy when he started an iron works there in 1875.
You have to book a tour and you only make a donation in the end. The ladies who take care of the tour saw us outside and had no one that day so we had a private visit. This museum has just reopened and is still pretty unknown. Unfortunately I didn’t take one picture of the inside but it is worth seeing (and listening to the ladies’ story about the Merrill family)!
All info & booking: http://www.jaxhistory.org/merrill-museum-house-tours/

Categories: Florida, Jacksonville Addresses, Restaurants, Travels

Jacksonville Beach – Seafood restaurants

Like last time, a tiny list of restaurants to try if you, this time in Jacksonville Beach.

Joe’s Crab Shack
The advantage is that it is SUPER well placed, closer to the beach would be ON the beach, so it’s convenient + super nice view.
Order a Shark Bite cocktail and enjoy the great atmosphere, the servers even do a small dance from time to time, hard not to be cheerful after that.

I recommend their crab buckets. In addition you will get a personalized bib, check out the hashtag #letsgetcrackin on Instagram, it’s fun 😉
Here are ours:


We went back, this time I took a place and there was at least 3 meals in it (don’t forget to ask for a box to take your leftovers home) !

 

Billy’s Boathouse Grill
The best salmon I’ve ever eaten O_o – and nice view too 😉

Categories: Florida, Travels

Pogopalooza

When I was in Jacksonville looking for something to do to occupy my Friday afternoon before my last two visits, I heard of the Pogopalooza festival.
Pogo, or Xpogo, is an extreme sport one practices on pogo sticks. I know, not very clear so far but you’ll see ^.^ and Pogopalooza is their annual competition with 3 categories, Freestyle, High Jump and Best Trick.
A little “official” video for you to see some of that weekend’s events:

With my mother, we witnessed, among other things, the world record highest jump on a pogo stick, 10 feet .5 inches, tied by 2 riders: Dmitry Arsenyev et Biff Hutchison.

 

It was quite nice, we quickly get into it (I admit at first I thought it was a bit stupid, I went out of curiosity) and it is in fact a real sport.
For example, in the morning at 6 o’clock, Casie Merza started jumping on her stick to beat the world record for most consecutive jumps on a pogo stick to raise funds for the Children’s Hospital in Tampa, she broke that record nearly 9 hours later! If you want to beat her now, you will have to do more than 75005 jumps!
The next day my mother went back to see the Freestyle competition while I was on visitation with A.

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