Tallahassee

There isn't much to post with regards to Tallahassee mainly because we wanted to relax. We stayed with Billy's Aunt Pam and her husband Dan in a REAL home, not just a HOJO or Quality Inn. His cousin Ben was also there during our visit so the two had a great time catching up.

Tallahassee is home to about 250,000 citizens and the capitol of Florida. The seven hills of Tallahassee were incredible and just the trees and neighborhoods reminded both of us of Savannah. We were both pleasantly surprised by the city and its small town feel.

The one full day we had in town we spent touring the new capitol, old capitol, Lake Jackson, Indian mounds, and drove around FSU.

The new capitol building looks like a large jail and was the ugliest of capitols we had seen on our journey (sorry Florida). The old capitol was pretty but with the candy stripe awnings it would have been hard to take any legislature seriously.

After lunch Dan took Billy and I to see Lake Jackson and the surrounding Indian mounds. Lake Jackson has an interesting story that Billy and I thought was too good to be true. About every 25 years the two sink holes in the lake open up and all the water drains outinto the aquafir. Billy's aunt saw it the last time it happened and walked out on the lake bottom. Dan told us that it is just now starting to restore itself to original levels.

Later that afternoon we drove around FSU, took a few photos, and then went home for a wonderful home cooked meal.
FSU Stadium from the observation deck of the new capital building.