Key West

We have returned from our mini-vacation to Key West and we really had a very nice relaxing few days. We started out on Tuesday and stopped at the ISLE casino for a couple of hours where I won $275 on the slot machines. I'm an expert slot machiner. We did lunch in the deli on the premises. I had a triple decker sandwich with pastrami, corned beef, turkey, cole slaw, & Russian dressing. And for dessert there was this lovely slice of chocolate checkerboard cake. We left there about 3pm and drove to Key Largo. We stayed one night at the Marriott Resort Hotel which was right on the Gulf of Mexico. We had dinner at the restaurant there and then went on our way to Key West. We stayed at the Crown Plaza La Concha Hotel right on Duval Street...the street in Key West with all of the "action". Our first night there we went to a sea food restaurant where they were serving all-you-can-eat King Crab legs. I must have devoured two pound of them. Where were you Bobby? In the evening, Rhoda and a bell hop set up my scooter and we went up and down the street looking into the quaint shops. Robin we discovered a store selling the soft fabric great t-shirts you had sent to us. I bought one that said "Renaissance Man" and a blue one that said "Life is Good." Rhoda bought one that said "Positive Altitude" and another that also said "Life is Good." The name of the store is Jake's Key. For the cost of a t-shirt, we could have had a good lobster dinner.

On Thursday we bought tickets to a trolley tour of the city. The trolley made about 12 different stops along the way and you could get off and go to a museum or whatever and get back on another trolley which came every 15 minutes. Rho got off in Mallory Square, sat me down in a cool mall while she went to the Truman House nearby. I ordered an orange frosty and waited at the same bench for her to return in about an hour's time. I didn't go with her because now I simply can't walk more that a few yards. If we could have gotten the scooter on the trolley, it would have been a different story. That night we went to an Italian restaurant a short distance from the hotel and had an elegant dinner which was hard to believe. Then later that night we heard Obama make his acceptance speech which was astounding. Even more astounding was McCain's choice of a Vice President whose claim to fame is that she was once a mayor of a small town. Talk about a "lack of experience"! NowJohn is a nice man but is over 70 and if he should die in his sleep imagine who would be Commander-in-Chief. Ohmygod!

Phil B. and Robin left comments on my blog of August 23rd, and Robin disagrees with my position on whether you need to respect the opinion of someone debating candidates or the issues with you. How can you respect his/her opinion if you disagree with it or even detest it? Surely, as I've said, you can respect the right of someone to have and to express an opinion, but that's not the same thing. The fact of the matter is that Robin never expresses an opinion anyway so there is nothing to discuss or respect. The email article from Defenders of the Wildlife Action Fund was not vicious and somewhat innocuous...written by someone who does not like Palin's position on wildlife issues and says so. What's wrong with that? In her comment, Robin said she was offended by that e-mail. But, of course, never said why.