Friday, June 3, 2011

Key West Day 3 - Pre-Wedding

On the morning of the big day Phil went with a large group of his family to go snorkeling, to make up for the trip they missed the day before. I stayed back at the house with Calvin and had brunch with Lea, Lydia, Lucia and some of the relatives from their side of the family.


They cooked up a storm with scrambled eggs, strawberry shortcake, turkey bacon, french toast, pineapple and sausage and watermelon.



Even though Calvin usually doesn't like strangers, there's always a couple random people that he seems to take a liking to. One of the sisters' cousins, Eugene, was one of those lucky few. Calvin was having a blast making Eugene walk him around the house. I can tell you it gets tiring on the back and the knees!


Before everyone got back from the snorkeling trip I took a dip in the pool with Calvin. I even managed to get him kicking and splashing a little bit.





After everyone returned from the snorkeling trip, we went with a couple of Phil's cousins and his sister to the Schooner Wharf Bar for a quick late lunch before we had to get ready for the wedding.

Calvin was very grumpy, until we finally got him to go down for a nap.



Tian Hung, Alex, Winnie and Kevin at the bar waiting for our food.





Phil ordered some soup and a small salad. The soup was a conch soup. Phil doesn't remember ever having conch before so he wanted to try it. But the soup was SUPER salty. We had to add some of our water to it to make it drinkable. We definitely did not have a good track record with soup on this trip...





I ordered a mahi sandwich, which was pretty good.

And we got some conch fritters (fried balls of conch).


After lunch Phil and I went for a quick walk near the boardwalk type area and stopped by the "Key Lime Shoppe" where some of the cousins had picked up chocolate dipped key lime pie slices the day before. That's right, chocolate dipped key lime pie! We wanted to save our stomachs for the wedding so we passed on the key lime pie and bought some cookies to bring home instead.


The shop had a nice little garden sitting area in the back that had a cute little fountain with coy fish.

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