Week four at Knights Key - Marathon, FL

Will & Witney at Dolphin Research Center

An iguana at the Dolphin Research Center

Witney, Bill, Will at DRC

Bike ride to Pigeon Key (Witney is sleeping)

Dinner at Upper Crust Pizza - Terry & Mike's last night

Feb. 2 - 8     On Sat. morning the bikes were delivered for Katie and family.  They flew into Miami around 7:00PM.  By the time they got their luggage and rented the car and found out how to get to the Keys, they arrived here at 11:30PM.  Sun. Will was so excited to have a bike here so he could ride all over, with an adult with him.  Bill wanted to go over to the Flea Market that we went to last Sat. so we all piled into their rented mini-van and drove over the 7 Mile Bridge and went to the Flea Market.  In the afternoon we drove over the 7 Mile Bridge again to a small beach on the other side of the bridge.  It is nice and sandy and shallow so the kids had fun playing in the water. We had been invited to attend a Super Bowl Party and watch the Super Bowl outside 2 RV's down from ours.  We all went over and ate then the guys stayed to watch the game and Katie and I and the kids came back to our RV and we put the kids to bed then she and I played cards.  Monday we had reservations to go see the Turtle Hospital Tour.  It is such a good tour and so informative.  In the afternoon we went to Sombrero Beach and the kids had fun there too playing in the water.  There is also a playground and the kids enjoyed that too.  Tuesday we went to the Dolphin Research Center.  We saw a lot of dolphins, even a mom and her 2 month old baby.  In the afternoon we all biked the Old 7 Mile Bridge.  We put Will's and my bikes in the mini-van and I drove Will and I up to the bridge.  The others rode their bikes from the RV to the bridge.  We all rode out to Pigeon Key, 2 miles, even Will made it.  Witney fell asleep while riding behind her mother.  When we got back to the RV we decided to go swimming at a restaurant which is just down the private drive from the campground.  As long as you order something you can swim in their heated pool.  We swam for about 2 hours.  Wednesday after breakfast we decided to go walk the Old 7 Mile Bridge.  We took the double stroller and both Witney and Will rode for a while.  We walked out to the 1 mile marker and back.  We had reservations at Crane Point Nature Museum for 11:30 so we headed to that.  It was interesting, we learned about native plants and we saw a Bird Hospital which had a lot of pelicans that had been hurt or injured.  After lunch we drove back to the restaurant and swam in the pool, ate dinner and saw the sunset, which was very pretty again.   Thursday Katie and Bill packed and we drove to Key West.  We parked right in the downtown area and walked around, saw a cruise ship that had just docked and did some souvenir shopping.  We ate lunch at the Hogs Breath Saloon, Mike just loves the name.  We went to the motel and swam in the pool.  We ate dinner at Benihanna's Japanese Steak House and had a very good meal.  Katie and family flew out of Key West on Friday morning at 6:30.  They ran into some delays because of the big winter storm but made it home safely at 6:30 at night.  We drove back to Marathon and relaxed the rest of the day.  That night after sunset we all went to Upper Crust Pizza (14 of us) because it was Terry and Mike's last night.