Key West

While at Marathon, to celebrate Valentines Day, we hopped on a bus and went to spend the day in Key West.  We've spent time here before on the boat and loved it and we wanted to visit one more time before we headed North.  This seemed like the best way to accomplish that.

The first stop was the butterfly conservatory.  What a peaceful place that is!  You enter through two sets doors (to try and prevent the butterflies and birdies from escaping).  Once inside, you are immediately transported into an entirely different, zen-like, magical world, complete with a lush gardens and fountains, peaceful, meditative music wafting in the background and little birds and butterflies fluttering all around.  Can I live here?

Chest full with joy at the butterfly conservatory in Key West

Jeff got a hitch-hiker

We spent quite a bit of time in the conservatory.  Then, we walked the entire length of Key West's main drag, Duval Street, making several pitstops for libations along the way.  We stopped for dinner at Sloppy Joes's an iconic establishment that opened back in the prohibition days.

I had the signature sloppy joe sandwhich and Jeff had the peel and eat shrimp

There are roosters everywhere.  

These two were just hanging out on the side of the road, Which begs the question...   

It wouldn't be Florida without Flamingoes! (from the Butterfly Conservatory.  There are no native Flamingoes left in Florida, except on rare occasions a visitor from the Caribbean shows up)