A Relaxing Day in Marathon
After adventuring yesterday, we decided to take it easy today and stick close to the house. We got up and made French toast for breakfast. Thankfully, someone before us left some cinnamon behind because it was one thing we never thought of when getting ingredients even though it is the most important part of French toast. We did, however, have the best brioche loaf of bread.
Once breakfast was cleaned up we packed up and went to Sombrero Beach. This is a small sand beach down the street and it didn’t charge to go in. There were pretty many people there but it wasn’t hard to find a place to set up. The beach was very shallow compared to what we have at home, there was enough space for about 2 rows of people between the grassy area and the water. We remembered towels this time but what I didn’t remember until we got on the beach was how much I didn’t want sand in the car. The beach trip lasted about an hour until we were baked and I worried about sand lasting forever in our new car. Then we were on our way back home to sit on our pier.
When we got back we sat outside and I read some in the shade before hitting the sunshine again. We laid out on the lounge chairs in the sun for a little before I jumped in the outdoor shower. Yeah, we have an outdoor shower. That was awesome because it felt like you were in an oven so having something to cool off was perfect. I will say, nice thing about here is there is always a breeze. We moved back in the shade for a nap before dinner.
Dinner was chicken on the grill. I had started marinading it after breakfast and it turned out pretty good. We made some mac and cheese with another side salad. We had decided after all that sunshine today we wanted some ice cream. We went to Paradise Flavors right down the street which gets great reviews. I have to say, they have delicious ice cream. We went into the pink and white stripped building and the worker inside was so friendly! He was adding more ice cream popsicles to the freezer and telling us about what they offer. They have standard ice cream but are known for the paletas (ice cream or frozen fruit on a stick). We each got one that was some sort of chocolate with hazelnut and anyway it was good. I also picked up a frozen chocolate covered banana and James grabbed a standard peanut butter.
Before I reveal our big astrological adventure of the day, I wanted to mention a few things about the Florida Keys in general.
The gas prices are about the same as at home. Things are not as expensive on Marathon to buy as I thought they would be. I mean groceries cost a little more but I thought shipping products here would cost a lot more and that would be passed onto the consumer but it doesn’t seem to be the case. Also, I have seen every brand that we have at home - we’ve gone many places where you can’t find something you are used to at the store for example but I haven’t run into anything like that. We bought Stoffer’s macaroni and Log Cabin syrup, they sell Turkey Hill drinks. I even saw my bank here.
Anyway, back to our day. After dinner we settled down and after dark went outside for a little chill time. I brought my astrological binoculars along with us (they were so worth the $70 I paid for them, I’ve taken them everywhere) to check out the sky. For the first time since we arrive, there were clouds. We stepped outside with the binoculars to see clouds. But…they weren’t everywhere. We could see Mars from our dock which is easy to pick out due to its color. To the left of Mars was this really bright star that was twinkling. Through the magnification it looked very white and almost blue at the edges. It didn’t twinkle so much when you could see it so close up and it didn’t move at all. I was checking it out for a while but the weird thing is by the time James decided to take a look it had disappeared. All that to say, we have now decided we saw a UFO. (It was not there the next night, we went back out and checked around the same time.)
Sunday is our 1 year anniversary and we plan to go down to Key West for the day!
