It's 5 o'clock somewhere

This past week, Feret had been at Tyler's all week and they were going to Tampa for a final fun weekend before school started on Monday. Of course this meant that Scout was a bit pissed that he was not invited and we had to find something to do. So, I joked that we could go to the keys for the weekend. He took me seriously and off we went on Saturday morning.
Now I was under the impression that it only took about four hours to get to the keys. Wrong! It takes about 5 and a half hours. And thats only stopping twice for drinks and peeing. We had a great time driving down there and lots of laughs. Baby slept most of the way and was really good when he was not sleeping.
We found a hotel that had a king sized suite for $200. We opted for the Hampton Inn at $119. Hot breakfast and free HBO (which we did not watch).
Scout took Baby swimming in the pool and I watched from the sidelines. My mom always told me that "there is nowhere to swim in the keys so don't bring your suit". Thanks Mom. They only swam for about a half hour then it was back to the room. I convinced Scout that we needed to walk on Duval Street. He wanted desperatly to rent a scooter of some sort but that was next to impossible unless we had another hundred bucks and another person to watch Baby. Anyway it just wasn't hapenin'. We drove down and found parking for $15 right next to duval and counted ourselves lucky. Loaded up the stroller and away we went.
They were having some kind of lobster fest and had Duval closed off to cars and set up like an art show like we have on 5th ave here. Really neat to walk through. We stopped at one booth and found an interesting Jesus face made of a piece of leather for ten bucks. Five streets later we found out that the baby had also grabbed a small turtle and we promised to bring it back to the Jesus people. It never made it back. I'm sorry we really meant to bring it back. I think the turtle was for incense.
I made Scout stand in front of all the familiar named bars and took his pic. These include: Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville, Hog's breath Saloon, Hard Rock, Sloppy Joe's and some others. And for some reason I was obsessed with the Mile 0 marker for hwy 1. Had to have a pic of that too. We did not get to see the Hemmingway museum although when we were wondering the streets on Sunday morning we passed by it but never went back or came across it again.
All in all the trip was great. Baby had a hard time falling asleep and he could escape out of the crib that the hoel provided but by midnight I think he finally fell asleep. The ride home was really smooth. Scout slept some of the way and we only stopped once for gas and I'm proud to say that I only payed $2.82 a gallon. Yeah I'm that good! We missed the Swamp ape research center on the way back, that guy really needs to put some signs up. I really wanted to see what he had in there.
Made it back home and picked up Feret and had the boys to bed early enough for a school night. Feret went to adventure island and busch gardens while up in Tampa. He brought home a white tiger stature and a photo frame with him slidding off one of the rides.
Even though we were not all together we all had a great time with no regrets. Now how am I going to pay rent again?...