THE END

We made it home on Saturday.  We had a blast!

Thank you for following along on our journey

We enjoyed sharing this time with you.

Key West - Fort Myers - Home

It is time to go home.  We ate out at Firefly's, came home, packed and made ready to start the journey home tomorrow.  We knew it would be a difficult couple of days.  The Key West Express doesn't run on Wednesday, so we had to stay an extra day in Key West (I know, don't hate us).  Additionally, my work added a training to my schedule that was 2 days before we had to be home, so we had to make up time.  We did all we could to minimize issues caused by a quick trip home instead of the 4 or 5 days we had planned.

When we got back from dinner, Cool Pa did his packing, and I did mine.  I went up stairs to bed and left CP to stay up and do his thing.  He said it would be tough, but he would get up early the next few days and do all he could to make the trip home go well.  I appreciated this as I was going back to work, the day after our return.  

Ahhh, bu things never go like you plan!

Little did he know it, but CP was about to shoot himself in the foot

It seems sometime around 2:30 am CP decided to go out and pick me a flower off the tree I had been admiring all week.  

As you may recall he left me flowers many mornings.  He thought he would leave me a special one on this last morning

BUT...

DOORS HAVE AUTOMATIC LOCKS WHERE WE WERE STAYING

CP was locked out.  I was asleep upstairs and he had no way of waking me.  Bless his heart, he tried to sleep on the chairs on our front porch.  He thought he was getting bitten by bugs after a while, so he went and got in the pool

That is where I found him at 6:30 am

Usually CP is all over me about my morning energy...but not today

He still declared I wasn't human, he said I looked like an angel coming across the courtyard.

If you know CP, on a regular day of travel, checking out at 11:00 am is getting up way too early.  Now he needed to get up after having slept in the pool.  Not only did we have to check out, but the plan was to walk around Key West until the ferry departed at 6 PM.   We weren't going to hit Fort Myers until about 10 pm Not a good day to be un-rested.

CP did well and we headed to Denny's for some breakfast

He was doing his best to be in good cheer

To do my best too, after breakfast we took a cab to the 

Ferry terminal.  I left him in the air conditioned seats and took off to claim our luggage at the Key West Rental office.  It was quite hot and we had several bags.  

We made the ferry and Cool Pa had a cheeseburger.  Some how he missed the little boy vomiting (spewing actually) at the end of our table all over the floor.  

He napped for a bit, but woke before the sunset

The view from our seats

We made it to Fort Myers and crashed as we had an 1100 mile drive ahead of us.