Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Key West

Stuart and I headed down to Key West for a good friend's wedding.  It was a great chance for us to get away while leaving the kids in Kansas with grandparents.  Stu has been to Florida/Key West before but this was my first time.  We flew into Fort Lauderdale Wednesday afternoon and stayed at the Hard Rock Casino that night.  The next morning, after picking up Michael from the airport, we made the four hour trip down and through the Keys in our rented bright orange Camaro convertible.

It was the first time Stu had gotten together with his three good buds since our wedding.  As I mentioned, we picked up Michael from the airport where he flew in from San Francisco.  Kevin, who was the one who got married, lives in Massachussets with his wife Robin.  They meet in Key West when both of them were living there.  Ben stills lives in Key West with his wonderful girlfriend, Libby. 

It was a great time.  We had wedding stuff to do but we had plenty of time to sightsee, drink, go snorkeling, eat, hang out at the pool, laugh with old and new friends and of course, more drinking.  We stayed through the weekend and left Monday afternoon from Fort Lauderdale.

Stu and I at the famous Mile 0 sign.

Ben and Libby.  We got the opportunity to watch Ben sing and play guitar at Fat Tony's while we were there.
The Four Muskateers at the wedding.
Holding the bride up. 
Stu and I at the wedding.
They got married at Fort Zachary close to the spot were the Gulf meets the Atlantic.

They were dying in the heat.  Luckily the wedding only last about 15 minutes.


We went out on a sunset snorkeling trip.  Which meant we stopped to snorkel twice and then drank beer while we slowly made our way to land while watching the sunset.