Marina Del Mar

Our friend and the assistant manager of the Key Largo Resorts, Patti, was also decked out for the celebration of St. Patricks Day. Patti has been a wonderful help to Annette, getting her a wheelchair, taking her shopping and loaning her car for our use. She and Annette meet every Monday night (with snacks) to watch the television series, 24. Patti is a transplanted Texan and,as one might imagine, has a Texas-sized personality. She has a passion for sea horses and collects all manner of representations of them.

From the deck of Coconuts, our nightclub here at Marina Del Mar, we can see our boat, Sabbatical, and that of our friends, Jack and Sheila, Windy Affair. We have been in this slip since December 19th, moving only to pump out our waste tank and to take one trip out past Molasses Reef. Windy Affair has been out a couple of additional times to sail or snorkel. These slips are located right in front of the site of our continental breakfast and the pool. We use the deck behind the boats for gatherings of the Marina Del Mar Gang.

On St. Patricks Day we went to Coconuts for a bite and a drink. Candy and Patti were there and we had no choice but to join the party. They really had to twist our arms! Here Annette is dancing with her crutches for support. We had to do her dance without the help of crutches. Try standing on one leg and moving the other leg and the rest of your body in time with the music. You'll get some idea of the effort it takes to spend weeks as Annette has.

This is a shot of the pool and the jacuzzi next to it. It is a heated pool when that is necessary. It is a welcome place to be after tennis with Mark. He and I head directly for the pool where we can enjoy a bit of weightless movement. We are basically elephants on the tennis court since we both weigh in the neighborhood of 285. The pool level does go up when we are in it. There are three pools here in the resorts that make up Key Largo Resorts and Marina. We are free to use any of them but generally do not go any farther than right here behind the boat.