Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Thanksgiving in Key West

 
 
Here's the view from my lounge chair on Thanksgiving Day in Key West. Daughter Anne and I sailed out of Miami last Monday, shopped at the famous Straw Market in Nassau on Tuesday, then took a taxi to Cabbage Beach on beautiful Paradise Island for the afternoon. We had a nice day at sea and woke up Thursday in Key West.

Anne and I shopped the quaint stores in Old Town and had lunch on a second floor balcony in the thick of things, then went to a state park where I shot this picture with my cell phone. A bright green critter wandered by my lounge chair and stalked some sea gulls (see below).

We both came home with good tans from our four days in the sun. There was no rain all week though the wind made for high waves (6-9 feet with 11-foot swells) - got my sea legs! The temps were in the 70s, it hit 80 two days.

Oh, about Thanksgiving, there were 59 nationalities aboard and only 1 celebrates Thanksgiving but the main dining room included turkey on its menu so of course as Americans we ordered that with our five-course meal afer we watched the sunset from the deck of the ship pictured below.

 
Was not expecting this visit....
 

 
Sunset from the deck of Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas.