Finally a nice long walk in Key West

Today was darn cold and windy, but the locals keep saying "it's going to warm up soon", yea, I sure hope so. It was 57 when we woke up and was 60 at the highest point today with wind!!!

Lou, Bill and Estee took a walk this morning, while I battled with several women for the three washers here on site. Finally, found the best way was to sit and wait for a washer and scramble for it with great gusto. After, the clothes went into the dryer, I went next door and did the ironing and waited on the clothes to dry.

Laundry finished, we decided to take walking short cut to the "city" and we donned sweater, socks, and jackets, put Estee into her cage and set off. Picture of the pelicans sitting and awaiting the fishing ships to come in with the catch of the day. Many of the boats, ships at the port would cost more than we would see in a life time. Very interesting to watch and view. We sort of did a walking tour to see what we wanted to plan on seeing in the time we have left here.

The picture of the man and woman dancing is outside of the Key West Museum of Art and History. One place we want to tour and the other picture is a picture that I took inside the one and only Mall at Key West, Clinton Square Market Mall, and the entire upstairs of this mall is of The Key West Toy Factory. How we wished we had our great grandchildren with us, it was just wonderful. Probably the highlight of our afternoon.

We walked through the bar area, with a mixture of different kinds of live music, but from each spot the smoke poured out. We are both amazed at how many people smoke here, men and women.

It was almost dark when we started back to our RV and we hadn't had dinner, so we stopped at Dante's and had a wonderful dinner. Lou ordered Cronk and Chips and I had Maui-Maui and chips, it came with a variety of seafood dips, one was key lime mustard and a very generous serving of coleslaw. Our seating at the restaurant was on the side with a wonderful view of the expensive yachts. There were ships that were loading for the sunset cruises; however, Lou and I decided it was much too cold to set out on the sea. For desert we shared a piece of homemade Key Lime Pie. It certainly was homemade and was just wonderful. After we enjoyed our final cup of flavored coffee, we thought we were ready to tackle the walk with great gusto and enjoyed our walk back to our site in the moon light.

We had no more than gotten home and a knock on the door and there was another couple from our SMART group. We had not seen them since last October and enjoyed catching up with them on what had happened to them since last fall. They arrive at Key West last November so they were very helpful to us regarding hair dressers and more fun things to do and the best of both worlds.