Off to the Florida Keys – pt 1
Last Wednesday morning Rich and I drove to Philadelphia airport to catch a plane to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where we would start our trip to the Florida Keys — my birthday present. (Yes, this was a big birthday for me, and I tried to celebrate every way possible. I must have mentioned a zillion times that I wanted a party and lots of cards. The trip was a huge bonus!) We generally fly out of Newark, but a lower plane fare swayed us to Philly. Wow was there a lot of anti-Yankees banter going on! I like the good-natured stuff, but I’m not into the serious trash talk. Good thing I didn’t wear a Yankees or Giants shirt while in that sea of Phillies fans. :)
Finally breaking through the clouds, the Florida coastline appeared.
We landed, grabbed our carry on luggage, and went to Hertz to pick up our red Mercury Mariner. Our trip was straight-forward — 595 to 95 to Route One. The traffic moved along nicely until we hit Miami, where it was a crawl. Once out of that area, it was smooth sailing.
I see palm trees, I think vacation.
Eventually we hit the start of the Keys.
We stayed at Ocean Point Suites at Key Largo, and we didn’t arrived until after the sun had set. The suite was lovely. A nice size living area with TV, balcony overlooking the ocean side, kitchen, two bathrooms …
and a lovely bedroom with another TV and large rocking chair (which you can’t see in this photo). We unpacked, settled in, and turned on that TV. That was some stressful game, but the Yankees won it! The only downside to being on vacation, was I wasn’t around to buy up all of the various NY papers the next day.