Follow-up reporting from yesterday: Jacksonville does exist. I finally saw it. The wedding was in the city center. The basilica, specifically. Real pretty. Long Mass, but I like that for a wedding. Make ‘em work for it.
We came in over a bridge and someone on the bus asked if I’d been to Jacksonville before and I said no (even though I had been to Jacksonville before) because I’d never been downtown, and then I felt the need to say it was cool (it was kind of cool, there was a battleship which was very exciting), and then I realized I was surrounded by people from Jacksonville, and then the people from Jacksonville started looking at me with raised eyebrows like I wasn’t supposed to think it was cool, and that’s when I didn’t change the subject because I couldn’t think of anything to change the subject to so I just kept repeating things like, “Wow, looks great! A river walk, you say?”
Jacksonville does exist, though. Confirmed that. Boots on the ground.
