Day 4--Key West
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2/8/09 Sunday, my 42nd birthday.
Sunday was a little warmer. We took the girls to breakfast--again, impressive--then I brought them to their clubs before hitting the Tropical Rainforest at the Spa. (This is a “thermal suite” with a central room with heated tile lounges, a sauna, a steam room, an aromatic steam room--very neat!--and a fog shower and rain shower.) I was hooked instantly, and signed on for the full week of access. Then Charles and I met for a quiet lunch together at Parrot Cay, and, after checking that the girls were happy, went ashore at Key West. Ah, a date!
There are some interesting, amazing, and self-referential statues in Key West--like some massive statues, and the statue of an artist painting them, all called “Copyright infringement”. We walked around for a bit, then went to the Pirate Soul Museum. I find it too intense for kids--except for the stuff that will bore them--but Charles and I enjoyed it greatly. The highlight for me was a kind of “radio theatre” type experience, where up to 6 people go into a room that looks like a ships hold, put on headphones, and the lights go out. You can hear rats scuttering around, and one chewing something right by your ear, then hear the pirates board, and fighting, and a pirate shooting the person next to you, then hear his sword coming from his scabbard as he stands in front of you, saying he’s going to slit your throat…then the navy rushes in, taking him out, and rescuing you. It’s very cool, very scary. After, I picked up a novel about two real life famous female pirates, Anne Bonney and Mary Read. Apparently, the last words Anne ever said to her lover, the Captain of their ship, were “Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hung like a dog.”
We came back early, and as both girls were still having fun, I took a nap before supper. Supper was at Lumiere’s, very French and very good. Leah got the roast duck. They brought me out a birthday cake, and sang to me after dessert; the cake was good, but largely went to waste as we were all pretty full. Afterwards it was bath time, then bed; it was Charles’ turn to stay up late, and he enjoyed a hypnotist and a magician, and came in quite late.
2/8/09 Sunday, my 42nd birthday.
Sunday was a little warmer. We took the girls to breakfast--again, impressive--then I brought them to their clubs before hitting the Tropical Rainforest at the Spa. (This is a “thermal suite” with a central room with heated tile lounges, a sauna, a steam room, an aromatic steam room--very neat!--and a fog shower and rain shower.) I was hooked instantly, and signed on for the full week of access. Then Charles and I met for a quiet lunch together at Parrot Cay, and, after checking that the girls were happy, went ashore at Key West. Ah, a date!
There are some interesting, amazing, and self-referential statues in Key West--like some massive statues, and the statue of an artist painting them, all called “Copyright infringement”. We walked around for a bit, then went to the Pirate Soul Museum. I find it too intense for kids--except for the stuff that will bore them--but Charles and I enjoyed it greatly. The highlight for me was a kind of “radio theatre” type experience, where up to 6 people go into a room that looks like a ships hold, put on headphones, and the lights go out. You can hear rats scuttering around, and one chewing something right by your ear, then hear the pirates board, and fighting, and a pirate shooting the person next to you, then hear his sword coming from his scabbard as he stands in front of you, saying he’s going to slit your throat…then the navy rushes in, taking him out, and rescuing you. It’s very cool, very scary. After, I picked up a novel about two real life famous female pirates, Anne Bonney and Mary Read. Apparently, the last words Anne ever said to her lover, the Captain of their ship, were “Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hung like a dog.”
We came back early, and as both girls were still having fun, I took a nap before supper. Supper was at Lumiere’s, very French and very good. Leah got the roast duck. They brought me out a birthday cake, and sang to me after dessert; the cake was good, but largely went to waste as we were all pretty full. Afterwards it was bath time, then bed; it was Charles’ turn to stay up late, and he enjoyed a hypnotist and a magician, and came in quite late.
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Date: 2009-03-06 09:23 pm (UTC)and that Pirate experience sounds way too cool. though perhaps too violent for me. ;)
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Date: 2009-03-07 12:17 am (UTC)And, yes, the Pirate Museum was big on realism. Although it WAS the first democratic "government" in Europe; each ship was run as a very strict democracy, with the captain elected by all the hands. Fascinating history....