{"id":3012,"date":"2009-11-13T20:02:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T00:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2009-11-16T10:26:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:26:36","slug":"off-to-the-keys-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=3012","title":{"rendered":"Off to the Florida Keys – pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Keys1-01\"<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 (Yes, this was a big birthday for me, and I tried to celebrate every way possible.\u00a0 I must have mentioned a zillion times that I wanted a party and lots of cards.\u00a0 The trip was a huge bonus!)\u00a0 We generally fly out of Newark, but a lower plane fare swayed us to Philly.\u00a0 Wow was there a lot of anti-Yankees banter going on!\u00a0 I like the good-natured stuff, but I’m not into the serious trash talk.\u00a0 Good thing I didn’t wear a Yankees or Giants shirt while in that sea of Phillies fans.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-02\"<\/p>\n

Finally breaking through the clouds, the Florida coastline appeared.<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-05\"<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-08\"<\/p>\n

We landed, grabbed our carry on luggage, and went to Hertz to pick up our red Mercury Mariner.\u00a0 Our trip was straight-forward — 595 to 95 to Route One.\u00a0 The traffic moved along nicely until we hit Miami, where it was a crawl.\u00a0 Once out of that area, it was smooth sailing.<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-09\"<\/p>\n

I see palm trees, I think vacation.<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-10\"<\/p>\n

Eventually we hit the start of the Keys.<\/p>\n

\"hotel2\"<\/p>\n

We stayed at Ocean Point Suites at Key Largo, and we didn’t arrived until after the sun had set.\u00a0\u00a0 The suite was lovely.\u00a0 A nice size living area with TV, balcony overlooking the ocean side, kitchen, two bathrooms …<\/p>\n

\"hotel1\"<\/p>\n

and a lovely bedroom with another TV and large rocking chair (which you can’t see in this photo).\u00a0 We unpacked, settled in, and turned on that TV.\u00a0 That was some stressful game, but the Yankees won it!\u00a0 The only downside to being on vacation, was I wasn’t around to buy up all of the various NY papers the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 (Yes, this was a big birthday for me, and I tried to celebrate every way possible.\u00a0 I must have mentioned a zillion times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}