And The ADVENTURE Continues...: December 30, 2014 Visiting Ernest Hemingway's House, Bars and shopping

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Weather has been wonderful in the low 80's during the day and 70's at night.

Our day started out with Christina making all of us egg sandwiches for breakfast. Then we were off.

Before meeting up with Jeff and Amy we decided to ride our bikes down to Mallory Square to visit The Spice & Tea Exchange. Brandon and I were in heaven. There was so many spices, salts, sugars and teas it was so hard to choose. I came away with about 6 new spices and Brandon came away with his own choices of 1 spice and 1 tea. Lady at the shop offered us ladies a job!!!! LOL We then returned to the base, dropped off the bikes and had lunch.

After lunch we went to tour Ernest Hemingway's house and to see the famous 6 toes cats cats. At this time there are 51 cats all descendents of the original ones. Most of these cats do have the 6 toes. They all seemed to be laid back and quite calm with all of the tourists that visit each day. The house had island charm to it.
We left the house to meet up with Jeff and Amy who had already started on Jeff's wish list of visiting certain bars. Mike wanted to go to Sloppy Joe's as this is the bar that Hemingway hung out in.We ran into 3 couples from Indian Cove who we knew were coming to Key West too. Before sunset we went back to Mallory Square. This is were the cruise ships come in. It is a big Square with many vendors. There were jugglers, a pig doing tricks, acrobats and a musician with his dog collecting tips. Then the sunset, wow, they are right the sunsets are beautiful. As it was getting dark Jeff had a few more places left on his list. Brandon did some shopping on his own and came up with some Harry Potter jelly beans. He passed some to Paw Paw and Nana. Nana thinks that she got the worse one. It was labeled earthworms....disgusting!!!!! Everyone had a really good laugh. We ate at Schooner Wharf which I thought was very good. It was about 8:30 and we said goodnight to Jeff and Amy and walked back to the base totally exhausted. Here are some of the names of the bars we visited: Fat Tuesday's, Irish Kevin's, Sloppy Joes's, Hog's Breath Saloon and Schooner Wharf. Jeff and Amy had started at Margaritaville. Not too bad for 1 day. We will see how our heads feel in the morning. I know that I was in bed by 9:30 and the rest of the gang followed shortly after.

Until tomorrow............................pat