We’re staying in Key West at a great hotel with a huge pool. Morgane and I swam for a long time this morning. After we came in, it started to rain so we went for a drive around town. When it stopped raining, we checked the southernmost point in the (continental) United States. We passed by Ernest Hemmingway’s house. He spent over ten years there and wrote the bulk of his lifetime work while he was there. Currently sixty cats live there. There are still cats that have six toes like Hemingway’s famous cat.
We stopped to eat in a Cuban restaurant on Catherine Street (recommended by friends we met at the hotel pool). The meat was very salty, but I loved the side dishes: yellow rice, black beans and fried plantains.
Then we stopped at the Key Lime Pie factory and Ghis sampled a new treat – a piece of key lime pie on a stick, dipped in chocolate and frozen. It was so good I had to help him eat it. We may have to go back.
In the afternoon we napped and when we got up, Morgane and I drove to the historic district for the Christmas parade. I’d read that we should bring a bag because a lot of candy is thrown out. This is no understatement. The parade was long and she came home with a huge bag of treats and even necklaces and rings and Christmas knick-knacks.
We came home and swam in the lit pool and sat in the hot tub. Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be good and we want to attend the sunset ceremony that takes place every night at Mallory Square. Morgane and I also want to take a ride out to the coral reef in a glass-bottomed boat.