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Showing posts with label Florida Keys. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Melancholy kind of day.....and some happy photo's of our Shark Adventure's and more.

 

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Did you ever have one of those day's where you just can not get into the groove of things, and you felt sad for no logical reason?  Well that is my day today.

I feel exhausted and I do not know why I went to bed at 10:15 p.m. last night and did not get up until 7:35 a.m. this morning.  I was in a deep, deep sleep this morning I had to force my eye's open and I had hit the snooze button twice which is something that I never do.

I wonder if it is because Dave is away  and I am not being woken up by his snoring all night long I am falling into too deep of a sleep if that is possible.  It could be just that I miss him even his annoying snoring. I have been keeping myself busy after work with chore's.

Maybe I need to have a day off tonight but I really want to vacuum the whole house and then scrub the floor's then take the very last of the Christmas decorations down but we will see.

Well something that may cheer me up is sharing some more of my vacation picture's I hope you like them.

 

We went to Sombrero Beach, but when I saw this sign I was a little nervous

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This house was directly across from the beach...not too shabby

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The walkway on to the beach, note the beaches in the key's are not huge sandy beaches

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A view of the beach

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I went into the water twice then right up by the shoreline I saw this!!!  That is right a Man-of-War!

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These nasty little buggers will ruin your vacation if stepped on, I then took it upon myself to warn everyone walking by not to step on it.

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After leaving the beach since it was not the same if I could not at least get wet with out being stung to death by jellyfish Dave purchased a rod at the local K-mart.  We went to the 7 mile bridge and found an embankment he told me to hold the line for a minute while he got some bait.  Then something started pulling really, really hard on the line....I was freaking out calling Dave, he came just in time to grab the rod.  He fought with what ever it was for almost 30 minutes....until the line snapped.  We found out later that large sharks hang under where we were fishing.  Can you imagine our faces if we pulled jaws out of the water!

 

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Above he was really fighting with the rod it was bending so much!

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Dave is like what is this!!!!

The next day we stopped by the Iguana cages and saw some of new lizard friends.

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This red one was the only one we could not hold as he was not very friendly, but as seen below is Iggy he is the best just like a baby.  He loves to be held and cuddle's like a scaly kitten.

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MMMM flowers, my favorite!

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We stopped here on midmorning for a great breakfast, it is a local place and the food was good and the decorations very cool.  It is called the wooden spoon and the whole place has all different type's of what else....wooden spoon's on the walls.

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Here is one wall showing the specials

 

Now on to our great SHARK fishing expedition, we went to the bridge around 4:30 and a few couples where there.  We talked to them and they had not had any bites all day!  We where there no more than 45 minutes and Dave caught a baby Hammer head shark, which he threw back of course...then low and behold I caught one 5 minutes later and it was a totally different one because mine was smaller.  Everyone could not believe our luck.  I of course let mine go too, I do not touch fish or Sharks for that matter I just like holding the rod.

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Grrrr I want to bite you human!

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And now my shark I caught

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I had to have some guy hold him while I took the picture because I was afraid he would bite me.

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See the clouds rolling in, we had one tropical storm the whole time we where there, it lasted about 2 hours then it was gone.

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Well I feel better now re-living some vacation memories :)

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Vacation Adventure's part 1

DSC03315( The cold night before we left)

I know, I know I have been taking too long to put up my vacation stories and pictures getting back into the groove of work and housework is hard on a person.  I am basically going to do a picture entry which will have to be in a few parts otherwise it would take everyone 2 hours to read it and that would be too much I am sure!

 

Day 1 Saturday:

We got up at 3:30 a.m. (groan) to leave to catch the 4:30 shuttle to the airport our plane was scheduled to leave at 6:45 a.m. and NO that did not happen we where delayed for an hour and a half while they de-iced the plane TWICE.  Then they promised us a free movie for the delay, but that never happened.  We flew Jet Blue and they have the little TV screens to watch cable on the back of every seat so that was good (headphones not included unless you buy them or have your own and we did. Jet blue still gives you free soda and snacks and 1 free bag to check by the way.

  DSC03342 the TV on the back of the seatDSC03343 I got stuck in the middle seat as usual while Dave enjoyed the aisle seat at least the guy next to the window was tall and thin.

 

We finally land at 11:00 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. the pilot made up some lost time here is the Ft. Lauderdale Airport (mad house)

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Alright next we get our luggage and I swore I would not overpack this time you are allowed to have your suitcase weigh only 50lbs or you pay for it and it is not cheap....mine weighed 45 lbs!  I really tried this time not too mention I had my knapsack I carried on the plane loaded with 2 camera's, an Ipod, a Zune, A PDA, chargers for everything, a blanket,a pocket book, sunglasses... I could go on....I am an over packing freak.

Well we get our rental car and drive to Dave's dads condo as we had talked about staying with him for Saturday night since our reservations down in the keys (Beautiful Marathon key) where not until Sunday. We get to the condo and he was not there, I said to Dave did you ever call him to see when he would be there (he drives down from MA but was still here on XMAS) he said No....Ok good move smarty.  We then decide to go to the best Walmart ever its as large as a small city that's when the heart attacks ensued.

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First turning into walmart two not so bright skate boarding teens decided to step off the curb and were too cool to stop, I'm glad they think their coolness can stop a 1000 lbs of metal traveling 20 mph...Dave slams on the brakes and they give us this look....Then 2 seconds later we have the right away to go straight and this lady decides to fly across the path of oncoming traffic  in a big suv right in front of us.  Dave slammed on the brakes again, she slammed on the brakes we came 2 inches from having a major accident....AUGH  She Shrugs...OMG!  We are now white as ghosts and get into walmart and had to shop for like an hour to calm down.  If you can even imagine one more driving nightmare happened this chick decides to try to do U-turn in the middle of the 3 way road as we are turning onto it...we decided at that moment to get off the dam road so we go looking for a cheap motel.  Let's just say I did not take any pictures of this place it was a little scary and it was not that cheap it was $80 for the night and there where some good old boys minus there shirts drinking beers and smoking butts outside there rooms in the parking lot.  

We went out for a nice dinner at Pat Flanagans (we are in Fort Lauderdale by the way at this time). I had chicken finger meal and Dave had some kind of fish (I despise seafood)

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the place we ate

DSC03353 Then later this is the famous Elbow room bar we just cruised the Fort Lauderdale beach after dinner looking at stuff.  After that we just went back to the room so we could get a good night sleep to start our drive down to Paradise in the morning.  After being to the Keys I have no patience to the rest of Florida I have the Keys Disease. 

In the morning we just ate at McDonald's then took a drive to the Fort Lauderdale beach because every time we go is it at  night here are some shots. Note the sky is dark we out ran the rain and had beautiful all week except 1 hour of a tropical downpour one night.

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We get on the road for our 3 hour drive and we got stuck in the Miami Dolphin fans traffic going to the football game (they lost by the way, no I am not grinning too much)

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Now the road to Paradise this is the connection between the mainland and the keys

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Hitting the 1st key this is Key Largo, yes where the movie was filmed the bar it was filmed in is the next picture

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See that the Caribbean club the blue awning in the background is where the famous movie was shot

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You gotta love Burger King with coconut tree's next to it!

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what a view!

DSC03396 The Theatre of the sea in Islamorada key fishing capital of the world

To Be continued....just so you know to come there are Sharks, Scorpions, Iguanas Stay Tuned!

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