Originally Posted March 7, 2017
This past weekend my family and I drove to Jacksonville, FL from Atlanta, GA. The drive was about 4 ½ hours, but it took us an extra hour with all our stops. We stopped for gas and food. Then when I was tired of driving, we had to stop to for my husband to start driving. Anyways it was a good drive. My daughter made it without whining until we were about 30 minutes from the hotel.
We stayed at the Doubletree by Hilton Riverfront. Our room was nice. Please take a look at our view from the room’s balcony below.
I can say that I am never dissatisfied with the Hilton. The room was clean. The staff was friendly and helpful. The location was great for a quick weekend getaway. At this hotel you can choose to self-park for $12 or valet for $20. We opted to self-park. The elevator took you right to their parking deck. The extra $8 was spent on late night ice cream.
I wanted to take my daughter to the children’s museum. She liked shopping carts because we were always in the grocery store when she was a baby. I saw online that this museum had a grocery store section in it. So we went to the museum. My daughter was looking around and trying to decide what type of place is this. I showed her the grocery store section and she loved it. See picture below.
Grocery Store Section
This museum had different sections for the children to play. These sections included a train station, fire station, post office, police station, theater with stage, puppet section, a baby section, basketball, balls and slides, and more. After going through all the sections, my daughter was not ready to leave.
I am so glad that she enjoyed herself.
After this, my husband wanted seafood for dinner. So we searched on Yelp to find a good place. The place we found did not have tables for us to eat. We took the food to the room and ate there. It was delicious. I wish I could remember the name and that I took a picture to show but I did not. Sorry. I will update this blog once I get the correct name of the seafood restaurant. We ordered crawfish and crab. I ordered my daughter the crab cake. She enjoyed all of it.
For this trip to be one day, I had a good time. It was nice to get a way for the weekend.