Lazy Lakes RV Resort, Sugarloaf Key, FL: A really nice morning. We had to go to Big Pine to pick up some snacks for a get-together tomorrow at Jerry and Char’s site across the lake. There’s going to be a huge party here tomorrow in the park with several big name entertainers—including Howard Livingston and the MM24 band. It starts at 1:00 and continues until evening. Unfortunately, the high temperature tomorrow is only going to be 61—with high winds. Since we had to go to Big Pine anyway, we decided to do the laundry. Walked the bike path while the clothes were in the washer. Really nice out. This is going to be the last warm day for a while. The rest of the week the temps don’t make it out of the low 60s (sigh). Got back and sat outside in the sun reading. We decided to go to Michael’s restaurant in Key West tonight for Valentine’s Day. After making the reservation we turned on the Weather Channel and saw the forecast. They were calling for severe thunder storms with high winds. Shortly after that Ray stopped by who lives a few sites down from us and works at the Boca Chica Naval Air Station and he warned us about the winds and said we’d probably better take down our awning. He said they even cancelled bus service in the Keys after 5:00. Probably true because the school buses weren’t going to run and parents had to pick up their kids. So, we cancelled our reservation at Michael’s and decided to run up to Bobaloo Café for dinner. Had a quick dinner and when we came out the sky to the west was black and the wind had picked up. We headed back and it started pouring and the wind was incredible. We could hardly see. The temperature dropped from 75 to 67 in about two minutes. We made it back and got drenched dashing from the truck to the RV. Hunkering down the rest of the night.

Morada Bay--Islemorada