Key West 2021 (page 7 of 8)

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Greta's blog, Day 7 (Friday March 12th):

Our last full vacation day! Mike got up and went for a run that morning - first run all week. Greta slept in until 7:30 or so. We finished off the eggs/bacon/toast and had mimosas one last time. We didn't get to have breakfast in a restaurant at all on the trip (maybe the airport Saturday?) but it's nice just to laze-about in the morning too. We relaxed that morning and did a bit of cleaning (load of laundry, wipe down the kitchen, etc). We must have run the dishwasher at least 3 or 4 times already - just like home, although it's a half-size machine.

We hopped in the car and headed to the airport to find out where/how to drop off the rental car on Saturday. Our flight leaves at 7 and Dollar Rental doesn't open until 8 am, so we have to figure out how the early-morning drop-off works. The drive to the airport doesn't take too long (plus now we know how to get there the "back" way) and it doesn't take long to find out where to leave the car and where the key drop box is located.

We leave the airport and head off the island. We drive up a couple keys and with Google, find that Geiger Key Marina has a small restaurant and RV park. Just as when we stopped for lunch at a different key a few days earlier, you wind through some housing areas and industrial area until you get to the waterfront, and it's tucked a ways back. It's interesting to drive past here as it's close to the Boca Chica military base (where the Navy jets we've seen in the air are based), and we drive past a lot of military land that doesn't look like much but swampy, boggy land.

It's already past lunch time, so there's no wait to sit down and we got a table right on the water. It's on a canal and as soon as we get there, we see kayakers paddle past (there's a pretty good current here) and one person fall out! We order a couple drinks and share a half-pound of peel-n-eat shrimp. It was good and we should have gotten a full pound - something to remember next time! We stayed for a couple hours - it was very quiet and relaxing. There were people in/out the whole time but the only other sounds were red-winged blackbirds flitting around the patio, as well as in the mangroves across the canal. We could see a number of fish lined up , facing into the current, right below where we were sitting, and if anything hits the water (ice cubes, dropped food), they are all RIGHT there.

Eventually we head back to our condo, so that we can walk over to Mallory Square for one last Sunset Celebration. We walked over (all the way to the square this time) and watched a guy do a juggling/unicycle act. He was very good. He had a younger kid, maybe 10 or 12, help him out and the kid was really accurate at throwing him his props. Then we wandered a bit more and got a place on the railing to watch the sunset, close to where we'd been the day before. We visited a bit with another couple who was from Texas but the guy works for Jack Links out of Minneapolis. The sunset was beautiful, as always, but no green flash this time.

We decided to try Blue Heaven one last time for supper. Maybe if we got there a bit earlier (although still after sunset) and maybe because it was a Friday night where more people would want to be right in the middle of things on Duval, MAYBE we could get in. And we did! We only had about a 20 minute wait. We gave them our phone number, waited in their waiting area across the street. It's handy - they text you a link, and then the link shows approximately how long of a wait you'll have as well as how many parties are ahead of you.

We got great seating - in the courtyard area, up on a little stage off in a corner. There was a live guitarist and we were far enough away to easily hear him but also be able to hear each other. The restaurant was in courtyard that had been used for various things over many years, including cock-fighting, gambling and boxing matches (at times were referred by Ernest Hemmingway). It's been a restaurant with the same owners for nearly 30 years. Mike had the nightly special , which was Red Grouper with curried veggies/rice, and Greta had the Yellow Tail Snapper on angel-hair pasta with veggies. Everything was VERY GOOD, and was the perfect way to end the trip.

Then we headed back to our condo one last time to finish packing.

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