Day 3 of vacation. Yesterday was beaches, pool, awesome raw seafood restaurant on the pier followed by several of Key West's finest attractions and several local bands. This morning after 8 glorious hours of sleep (by the way, I had 10 hrs Wednesday night) we had a great breakfast at an open-air French cafe and then toured Ernest Hemingway's house. And here begins just one of the many ties home.....
Bill and I were married on Smather's Beach in Key West July 15, 2006. Our wedding "reception" lunch was held at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville and later that afternoon we toured Ernest Hemingway's house. Thanks to our love of Jimmy Buffet, when the twins came along, we chose Delaney for Maya's middle name based on the Buffett song "Delaney Talks to Statues.". Riley's middle name, Pilar, is the name of Ernest Hemingways's fishing boat (and we all know Bill "likes" to fish). And then comes Teagan (a.k.a. TT) whose name means beautiful. Acrossing the streeet from the hotel is a butterfly conservatory with hundreds of live butterflies you can walk through. Teagan's room is decorated in butterflis. Bill and I are currently sitting poolside at the very place we stayed when we got married nearly 6 years ago. Aaron spent the week with us and one of my favorite photos was taken from our balcony overlooking the pool....Aaron was floating on this back, face to the sky in a light rain.
What a long way we've all come. What beatiful place we are....literally and figuratively. In the last 6 years we've blended our families, added 3 precious girls to our lives and come back to the place that got it all started.
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