Key West, Day 3, Beautiful day

We finally felt like we could find our way around without going nuts.  We tend to do that when we don't know what we are doing.  Once again, started the day slowly.  After cleaning up, decided to head out with our first stop at the most southern point in the United States.

I don't think I have mentioned that the Ragnar Relay between Miami and Key West was happening.  6,000 runners with many vans started pulling into Key West Saturday morning.  If you want specifics, here is a link for you to check out what was going on.

https://www.ragnarrelay.com/ragnar

I mention as there was a team in front of us and a team behind us at the southern most point.  It was interesting to hear them talk about the run.  One of the team members behind us kindly took our photo.

Every tourist must get their photo take here.  Then we headed down Duval Street looking for the Banana Cafe for breakfast.  They had regular bacon, eggs, and toast breakfasts as well as crepes filled with all sorts of good things.  The interesting thing about this was that we were entertained by a hen and her chicks while waiting for our food.  Key West is a bird sanctuary and all birds are allowed to run free.  This next photo I took from our table on the porch.  The locals are not fond of the chickens.  I am sure there are more hens than roosters but one sees many more roosters.  They seem to make noise all day long.

When done we headed on down Duval Street going in and out of quite a few shops deciding to indulge in our first piece of Key Lime pie.  We shared.  It was then onto the Hemingway House.  Very interesting and James was very impressed with the writing studio he had.  Hemingway could access it with a cat walk between his bedroom and the studio until it was blown down in one of the hurricanes.  It was never repaired.  

James as we were entering the grounds.

James on the bedroom balcony looking towards the building with Hemingway's writing studio.

 Hemingway's writing studio.

 This one intrigues me.  It was in the gardens and that plant was held on by an old stocking.  Hmmm?

We then ventured on over to the Truman Little White House.  The Truman facilities are just well done.  We sure enjoyed his library in Independence, Missouri.  This was just as well done.  If you look closely among the leaves you will see the red, white, and blue flags decorating this house.

We lunched at Kelley's Caribbean Bar and Grill for lunch.  We then headed back down Duval Street and the Casa Marina.  It was four o'clock and our legs were getting tired.  Not sure what we are going to do for supper but know what we are having for dessert.