Cold this morning...39 degrees! Frost on the truck. The sun is shining and should get into the 60's. Yesterday we spent the day at the Kennedy Space Centre. We both really enjoyed it. They take you by bus to see the launch pads, the old central command station and the building where they assemble equipment that they take up to the space station. Within the next couple of days they are rolling the shuttle out to the launch pad. It travels at 1 mile per hour and takes 8 hours, then it sits on the launch pad for a month for final checking before launch in April. Too bad we missed that.

We are enjoying our stay at The Great Outdoors RV & Golf Resort. Monday night we had an armadillo scratching in our lawn. Rick shawn a flashlight on him and he didn't even look up. We golfed on Tuesday (beautiful warm day) with a nice couple who stay here every year for 3 months. Had drinks and dinner with them after golf. The golf course is very nice... lots of water. We went biking yesterday morning and I went to the yoga class. It rained yesterday so we took a drive into Orlando shopping. It seems that everytime it rains it cools off...very cold this morning. I am off to Pilates this morning.

Saturday was a beautiful warm day. We went into Fort Pierce in the morning to the Farmers Market on the waterfront. Fort Pierce is one of the prettiest towns we have seen. From there we travelled 40 miles down the coast to the golf course where we golfed with a retired Zooligist. The course was quite nice, not too difficult, but lots of bunkers. We left around 9:00 am on Sunday for Titusville. This park is sooooo big. It has 2 restaurants, 2 heated swimming pools, an RV maintenance shop, golf course (trying it out tomorrow) and driving range. We went for a walk yesterday around the main road. It took 1 1/2 hours. We have a nice large site with cement pad and patio. We are 20 miles from the Kennedy Space Centre so we hope to visit this week. The weather has been wonderful since we left the Keys, however it is supposed to cool for a few days.

Wednesday we biked south of our park for 7 miles along the shore. Nice bike path. It looks like they will eventually have a path that will run the length of all of the keys. We enjoyed the sunshine when we got back home and had stone crab chowder for dinner at the Caddo's. The tempurature is still cool and it is quite windy.
Thursday we went back to the fish market and purchased some hog fish and shrimp for dinner. After beating the Caddo's in 5 games of Pepper we treated them to a nice dinner of fried hog fish, french fries and grilled shrimp.
Today we were packed up and ready to leave by 8:45. Very chilly morning. Arrived at Camelot RV Park in Malabar by 1:30 to find that the site they had reserved for us was too narrow to open all of our slides. We called a park in Fort Pierce and here we are. They can only accomodate us for 2 nights so we have booked a park in Titusville up by Cape Canaveral until March 4th.
We have a golf game booked for tomorrow at noon at Champions Gate. It looks quite nice and Rick will get his golf fix!!

Yesterday we took a drive down to Key West. The weather was a little on the cool side but we thoroughly enjoyed the day. When we arrived we took a 90 minute tour of Key West on the Conch Train . It was a trolly that toured around the island with a narration of the history as well as present life in Key West. Very interesting...we all enjoyed it. After the tour we had a nice lunch at an outdoor pub (Fogarty) and then walked the main street (Duval Street). It runs from one side of the Key to the other. We had a drink in Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville and then down the street to listen to a wonderful black soul singer and finally a stop at Rick's Bar where we stayed until it was time to head back to Marathon.

Yesterday was a nice warm day. We biked along Grassy Key for 10 miles before we turned around to head back. It was beautiful biking along the aqua green water. We were able to sit out in the sun until it started to cool around 5:00. High winds again last night with some rain. It is cooler this morning however we did go out for a nice walk.

Hello From Marathon

We left home on January 26th to pick our trailer up in Jacksonville Fl. Arrived in Bradenton on the 27th. Spent a week there leaving on February 5th for Miami, where we met up with Bob and Nancy. It was a nice park in the middle of their market garden district. Fields of vegetables, fruit trees and tropical plants. We spent a day in Miami where we went on a boat cruise of the bay. Saw many homes of the rich and famous ... Rosie, Julio, Naomi Campbell. We then spent a few hours in South Beach. We golfed a couple of times in the Miami area.

We arrived in Marathon on Friday around 1:30 in hot and sunny weather. What a beautiful drive along the Keys. Friday night gale force winds blew through the Keys. What a night that was. The temperature has been fairly cool since then until today. Yesterday we bought some hog fish and grouper at the fish market and had a fish fry for a Valentine dinner at Bob and Nancy's. Today is supposed to be around 70 so we are hopping on our bikes after lunch and going for an afternoon ride along the shore.