Ship Wreck Treasure Museum

March 18th - Thursday High 65 degrees - Low 62 - Partly cloudy with the normal breeze

After a lovely evening of much laughter and gaiety and enjoying our dessert together with our friends from SMART, we said goodbye to Bill and Joan and prayed for a safe trip for them to return to PA, Lou and I went to bed and "died". We didn't wake up until the alarm went off at 7:30 and we let Estee out to go "potty" and we were cold and crawled back into bed and we all went back to sleep and slept until almost 10:00.

We enjoyed a quick breakfast of fresh papaya, cereal and banana and took Estee for a walk and were planning on leaving for our day down town, but got side tracked by two new neighbors and chatted with them, so we got a late start.

Once again we parked at Truman Annex and walked over town. I love to do that, as Truman Annex is where all of the beautiful homes are. I just ooh and ahh over the homes and the gardens, today Lou even pointed out bananas that were growing. That was a first for me.

We arrived at The Shipwreck Treasures Museum, and while we were waiting for the guide to get ready, Lou purchased us a Key Lime Float for us to share, yummy. The Museum was one of the highlights of my trip. It covered 400 years of the Key West Wreckers and the fortunes that were lost beneath of the waves. There were two floors of shipwreck artifacts and treasures in a captivating recreation of master salvager Asa Tift's 19th century warehouse. We even got to lift a genuine silver bar from 1656. After the two hour tour we climbed the 65 foot lookout tower to view a seven mile stretch of the ocean.

While we were at the Museum, it turned cold, so we went to the Roof Top Restaurant for lunch.

We both ordered Conch Chowder and he ordered a shrimp salad sandwich and I ordered curried chicken salad. After a delightful lunch we set out for an exclusive cigar shop. That brought us to Key West Cigar City USA and a delightful man named Mark Cesani, what fun he was, and we had an enjoyable time with him.

After we left the Cigar shop we went to the Mallory Square and that is where I found out what Mr. Flager had done, and why a street and statue was named for him. He along with Mr. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil Company and became rich men!!! We would have liked to have stayed longer there; however, it started to sprinkle and we were cold, so we started the walk back to the car. We got in the car, and Lou turned the heater on and we came back home and turned on the furnace. It was cute, when we pulled in our new neighbor, Ron, was outside, turning his generator on and telling us he needed heat also and he bet our puppy was cold!! I quickly changed and put on jeans and a sweater and Lou did the same.

I put my St. Patrick's day things away tonight and got out the Easter things, more about that later.

Tomorrow will be time to dump again and will need to fill up with gasoline. Not very good gas mileage again!!