Brown Pelican--Historic Seaport, Key West

Tue, 12/25/07

Sugarloaf Key: Christmas day. Baked cranberry/orange bread to take over to the Christmas dinner today. Frosted the chocolate cake. Cleaned. At 3:00 we headed over. Sat with our friends Floyd and Betty from California and Marty and Donna from Michigan. They are both full-timers now. Had a great meal and then after cleaning up a bunch of us played Jokers. We were on the third game and the power went off. Guess it was out in the entire Keys. At least that’s what one of the guys said. Of course everyone was three sheets to the wind by then. Then someone started the rumor that the seven-mile bridge collapsed. That would be great because we’d be stuck here for a few years. When the power didn’t show signs of coming back on soon, we went over to Floyd and Betty’s campsite and played Spades for a while. Another beautiful day—in the 80s. A great Christmas. Late night.