We went shopping at a couple local stores and then headed back to our hotel. There were a couple animal things (dolphin thing and turtle hospital) that we would have like to take Zack to but they looked like they were all outside and it was too cold and rainy for that. We just hung out at the house for the rest of the day.

Linda and I were in the extra bedroom reading our books while they guys watched TV until Zack came to join us. He has this little box with 6 dinosaur books in it. He would climb on the bed and lay down by us and say "Yachary read his book too". He didn't really read the books. He simply enjoyed dumping his books out and then putting them back into the box. This worked until he "dropped" them off of the bed and they told us "Yachary hid books under Mommy" which he did because he shoved them under the bed.

We don't have a crib or pack-n-play for Zack here so he has been sleeping with Mommy and Daddy. As I was laying down with him tonight to put him to sleep he was so cute. He was ask me "sing another song Mommy" so of course I'd sing more. He kept wanting to hear the Santa song. If I would pause between songs, I would hear this coming from behind his binky "twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what you are." He would say those two lines over and over. We'd also sing Little Boy Blue. I would sing until the last lines where Zack would say "underneath the haystack fast asleep no he's awake". I think that I fell asleep before he did but Steve came and woke me up after a little while.

We found a Red Box and watched Angels and Demons tonight. It was a pretty good movie. They guys ran out of beer half way through and unsuccessfully trying to get Linda and I to run up to the next block for some more decided that they would go. It was a good and bad - they got a short run out of the deal but the store was closed so they didn't get any more beer.

On to Miami tomorrow! Hopefully it will be a little warmer or at least not rain all day.

After this, we made our way to Margaritaville. As this was the main point of the trip to Key West, we enjoyed the food and drinks. No one makes a better margarita, although the ones that you get at Cheeseburger in Paradise are much larger! One more stop down on our quest.

Zack did nothing but eat the entire day! We could not fill that child up. We kept joking that he was stretching his stomach so he could eat all the free food on the cruise ship. We saw the chickens and roosters walking around downtown and he thought that was great. I think that the highlight of the day for Zack was chasing the pigeons around the square and making them fly. He was so funny. He would say "see birdies" and then would go after them to try and catch them. He had the best time with Mark when Mark picked him up and they chased after the birds. He loved getting close enough to them to make them fly away.

We walked around and did a little shopping after lunch. It was fun. We stopped and got some Key Lime Pie on a stick. It didn't taste that good to me so I'll have to try a real piece of Key Lime Pie before we leave. We had such a gorgeous day today. It was warm enough that we could walk around in capris and flip flops. We went back to the water front (after a second trip to Margaritaville) to watch the sunset but by then there were a lot of clouds in the sky. While we were waiting we watched several street performers in the square. Some of them were pretty entertaining and one pulled Steve in to help out. I have that on video and Mark took pictures. Zack recognized the square that we were at and had more interest in chasing the birds around than watching the street performers juggle fire. All he kept asking for was to chase the birdies and make them fly. He also enjoyed watching all the boats going on the ocean and the airplanes flying low overhead as they landed and took off.

All in all we had a great day in Key West. They are saying it is going to be colder and rainy tomorrow. We are all hoping that the weathermen are wrong like usual.

The flight was not full so we were able to move to an empty row and give Zack his own seat. That worked out great. He learned how to buckle and unbuckle his seatbelt. Steve had a hard time getting the DVD to play but we were finally able to get the Cars movie to play for him. He looked so cute wearing Steve's noise cancelling headphones while staring at the laptop. He did such a good job. He kept telling me that we were going "up up up" all the way there until we started to land and then he said we were going "down down down".

The flight itself was uneventful - the kind that I love! However, when we got to the Miami airport and were walking toward baggage claim, the fire alarm kept going off. But I don't know what was more disturbing, the fire alarm going off or the message that kept playing something like "The fire alarm has been activated. The fire department is on the way to investigate. Please stand by for further instructions." I wonder if they would have said something different if there was a confirmed fire?

We got our rental car and made the 2 hour trip to Key Largo. We got to our hotel about 10 minutes ago. Let me just say that our room is nice but it is no wonder that they don't put any pictures of the outside of the building on the website as it is nothing to write home about. We are just glad that the inside is nice.

Let's hope that the weather holds up and we get a beautiful day in Key West tomorrow. Well, later today.