I can’t believe it’s Friday night already! Where did Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday daytime go?
Monday we were lazy.
Tuesday I did laundry and then we had a late lunch at an open air restaurant overlooking the water on Boot Key Harbor. While we were waiting for our food I noticed people all along the rail looking down at the water ( the tables are all on the second floor). I heard someone say “manatees”, so Rich went over to check it out. There were two manatees right by the restaurant!
Wednesday our son’s in-laws came here from Naples FL where they are staying for a couple of months to spend two days in Marathon. We had breakfast with them at the Stuffed Pig and waddled away like stuffed pigs – great breakfasts here! They had not seen our boat so we spent a little bit of time on the boat. They stayed at a hotel because they had their dog with them, so they then went back to the hotel to take care of the dog. Mid afternoon they returned and we drove down to Key West. We wanted to go to a small park that has busts of many early settlers of Key West, but couldn’t remember exactly where it was. We asked a couple of people for directions (a shopkeeper, someone at an information booth), looked at a tourist map, and still had only a vague idea of where it was. We eventually found it, but I’m still amazed the woman in the info booth didn’t know what I was talking about and the map didn’t show it. We did keep running into an interesting character as we were walking. A man, obviously already drunk, approached us several times asking for change because “I’ll be honest with you, I just want some change so I can get drunk”. At the price of drinks there, it would take more than some change to get drunk.
We did find the statuary garden and spent time reading about all the people who established Key West. A number of them started out with nothing and through hard work became quite wealthy. And some started out with more –
Thursday we met again for breakfast and then headed to the turtle hospital. We decided, after finding out it was a 90 minute tour and cost $25/person, that we would go back to Key West and tour Fort Zachary Taylor instead. It was quite interesting and only cost $2/person to get into the park. The exhibits at the turtle hospital were quite informative and we didn’t feel the need to see live turtles. And it was such a beautiful day that it was nice to spend it outside.
Today was another lazy day – I spent a lot of time on the fly bridge reading and enjoying the warm weather while Rich recovered from eating too much licorice yesterday. We did get back to Enterprise car rental today to renew our rental for another month. Apparently car insurance companies won’t cover a rental for more than 30 days at a time, but at least we were able to keep the same car. And we can drop it off at the Miami airport when we fly back to Indiana in early March with no extra fee for dropping off at a different location – I love Enterprise!