Cruisin'

Well, we're back!!!! The escaped turkey's have returned safe and sound, but very tired. We had a great time. The weather was gorgeous. It rained the night we left port and we had some rough seas going out. Danny was very seasick. I felt really bad for him and he made me really feel bad when he said I had run off and left him to puke on his own. But I was just sick enough that if I had stayed to watch I would have been joining him with my own head in a bucket. The seas stopped rolling during the day on Tuesday and was quite pleasant the rest of the trip. Key West was a very nice place. We walked all the way across the island to the Southernmost point in the US. Nassua was OK, but there really wasn't enough time to really look around and maybe see some of the sights. The next time we go, I think we will try to go in a different direction. I have included some pictures and will try to put more on as we have them developed for the picasa album.
This is the St Johns River Suspension bridge in Jacksonville. They are in the process of repairing and updated the cables. If you look real close you can see where the cables end on the bridge. My Dad and the company he worked for built the approach bridge up to the suspension part. You can tell how overcast it is right now and it was raining. We were standing on one of the decks near the top. We passed underneath this bridge headed for the ocean.

Here we are docked in Key West. The water here was the most beautiful blue green I have ever seen.

Here is Dad and Theresa and Me and Danny at the southernmost point in the US. Look at the color of that water. B-U-T-full!!!. I didn't get in the water here, mostly because there was a lot of trash and messy stuff out of the ocean washed up on the beaches from the last hurricane. They were still in the process of cleaning it up. It just didn't look to healthy to me. But it was a pretty place and I would like to visit it again.

This is a picture of the ocean between Key West and the Bahamas. That is such a beautiful blue color.
This is a picture of part of Nassua as we were coming into port. The low white building on the left is what is called the Straw Market. It's mostly a flea market where everyone is selling basically the same thing. All in all the trip was wonderful. I enjoyed being out on the ocean a lot. I sat out on the balcony and watched the ocean almost every night. It was very soothing. We had a great time and looking forward to doing it again.