Just spent a great weekend with my son Jack up in St. Augustine with his Boy Scout troop. The annual pirates festival was going off that weekend and we sure got a good glimpse of the pirate lifestyle! The city sets aside a park downtown and lets hundreds of pirate-themed vendors sell everything from corsets and flasks to weapons of all shapes and sizes. Let me just say, when you get 20-some-odd Boy Scouts in a festival filled with swords, muskets, cannons, knives - and mysteriously, air soft guns? - things can get a little crazy.
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