Yay for tropical places!
DH, ever the cutterman, spotted a CG ship way offshore
We got to watch it come inI had only watched smaller ships dock, so watching this was cool,
especially with dh providing commentary about their approach ;)
We got to do some touristy stuff too :)
Pretty church and poinciana trees
Key West Lighthouse :)
Dh's mom, sister, and I toured the Ernest Hemingway house
My mother-in-law and sister-in-law
A Hemingway cat (6 "toes") on Ernest's bed
Where the magic happened - Ernest's office
The first in-ground swimming pool in the Keys
Ernest went on a trip, and when he came back, his wife had put in the swimming pool where his boxing ring had been. (Bad move #1). She had wanted a swimming pool, and in order to move the limestone that was there, she had applied for a dynamite permit, but had been denied. Therefore, the builders had to dig out the huge pool BY HAND, at quite a large cost (Bad move #2). It couldn't be filled with fresh water (as it was pretty scarce at the time) so it could only last about 2 days with salt water in the summer before it turned disgusting (Bad move #3). They then had to empty out the pool, scrub down the sides, then refill it with salt water. This cleaning process took 5 days. So, out of a week, they could only use the pool for 2 days, and the ocean was only about 2 blocks away. I guess Ernest was not very happy.
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You know, I pictured Hemingway's house being all warm wood... kind of like something Teddy Roosevelt would have appreciated. More safari, less sea.
It's also a lot more sparse than I would have expected. Thanks for posting the pics! What a neat thing to see!
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