Day four: traveling to the keys

 By: Maddie Watts

Today we had started our day with breakfast at Hampton Inn in Miami. The hotel was brand new and super nice! Then we started making our two and a half hour drive down to Summerland Key. On our way down we stopped at The Shell Factory on Key Largo, where we could buy shells or souvenirs. Once we left there, we stopped at Robbie’s to feed the tarpon and the pelicans. Once we fed them we got shaved ice as a before-lunch dessert (we are on vacation after all.) And then our leisurely two and a half hour drive was interrupted when a charter bus caught fire; luckily no one was injured. Since there’s only one road in and one road out, our drive to the keys turned into four hours. Plan A for today was to go kayaking with Mote Marine at 2 PM. Unfortunately we didn’t get out of the traffic jam until 1:30 and we still hadn’t eaten lunch yet. Thankfully in the Keys plan B consists of extra beach time. While we were at the beach we were basically on our own ecotour because we found fossilized coral. Once we finally arrived at Mote Melanie made some orange chicken, rice, and vegetable stir fry, and egg rolls; it was all super good! We ended the night with cookies for dessert and school work.

 



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