Last Day in Florida

On Thursday, we drove down to Key West one more time. We did some shopping while we also dodged the rain. - It was pouring!!! I especially enjoyed lunch (and dessert) at a little crepe place we found. We made our way to the Key West airport to see if our scheduled flight to Dry Tortugas was still on. Dry Tortugas is a national park 70 miles west of Key West. We were planning on taking a sea plane out there to enjoy the sights along the way and to explore Fort Jefferson and snorkel. Sadly, the flight was cancelled because of the weather. (In fact, the plane that had just come back from Dry Tortugas was 5 minutes away from the airport when they CLOSED the airport! So they landed in the water and arranged for vans to bring the passengers back to the airport. It was fine to do that, since they were in a sea plane, but the man working there told me that has only happened about two other times in the past 10 years!) So we didn't get to go to Dry Tortugas this time. Bummer. I guess we'll just have to go back!


That night we ate dinner and then stopped at a lookout place on the way back to the resort to watch the sunset.

In the morning on Friday, we enjoyed a couples massage - complete with hot stones and everything! It was awesome! What a way to wind up a vacation! 

The other fun thing about our trip back happened at the airport in Miami. We saw all these news cameras and reporters standing around the security line. When I asked someone what was going on, a man explained that the FAA was implementing a new way of getting screened for security. I stood on a rubber mat and was randomly selected to try out the new way of getting screened! So Jordan and I followed the news cameras through the next portion of security, where dogs were commanded to search us. We just kept walking, they sniffed a little, and that was it for us. We got to keep our shoes on and we didn't have to take anything out of our pockets. We still put our carry-on bags through the x-ray machine, but that was it. It was quick, and we were on our way to lunch, a flight, and seeing Claire once again!