Day 8: Key Largo

We started off with a home cooked breakfast of pancakes, blueberries, sausage, and OJ. Ah, the perks of renting a condo. And our condo is fantastic. You can rent it if you’re ever in Key Largo. It’s at Ocean Pointe and we stayed in Sunbeam Dream. The condo was stocked with wonderful linens, tennis rackets, beach chairs, and even fishing polls. It WAS a dream!  https://abnb.me/knk8nFOhaT Being able to cook and hang out is awesome. Perfect for days like today. Day 8.

After breakfast we packed sandwiches and headed to John Pennycamp State Park. It’s a pretty popular beach here in Key Largo so we weren’t the only ones there. After paying a nominal $11 gate fee, we walked through the visitor’s center and saw some great aquariums with colorful fish.

We learned that we were about to embark on a snorkeling adventure that was not actually in the ocean. We were walking across the parking lot to Largo Sound. It’s technically not the ocean but it was a little salty. Jess and Caleb went snorkeling while the rest of us enjoyed the beach and the breeze.

Kate and Em flirted with a cute little 10 month old named Jack that crawled over to their sun bathing area. He was a cutie pie and was such a talker! His parents were from Florida but up north in Homestead. They were on vacation with the grandparents too. It’s nice to see other multigenerational families enjoying time together. We have done that a ton over the last week.

After beaching and lounging, we headed to a few stores and stopped for dinner items before heading back to check on Grams and Papa. They were home enjoying the quiet and calm. We caught them watching Property Brothers which means they are probably going home with a new remodel project ;)

We brought home a puzzle and set to work on that. It’s a group effort and as I sit here at 8pm writing this, there’s still a group working on it. That’s the nice thing about puzzles. You can get up and walk away from them and return later.

Pretty fitting puzzle to find at a thrift store here huh? The kids headed down to the pool and hotub and Todd and I checked out the marina and the dock. He even found this boat that seemed like a fitting name. It’s windy here but beautiful. The ocean is empty. Very few boats out there but I think that will change as we head south to Key West tomorrow.

Toddy cooked dinner for us all and we settled in the watch Eat, Pray, Love on tv. It’s a pretty good movie for the kind of vacation that we are on. Until tomorrow friends.