TUESDAY!!!!!! (You really should read Monday first though)

...Tuesday June 15th...

Detective Jane Tuesday and I decided to hit the streets in our rental car...

Then we parked our car next to a snow cone vendor and headed for the slightly odd marker denoting the Southern-most point of the US.

From there we walked the streets a bit armed with snow cones and bottled water.  We visited the Butterfly Museum but it looked too small to trifle with so we left and headed back to our hotel.  We went to visit the local night hotspot known as Mallory Square.

Apparently they moore rather large ships there too.  From here we decided to visit the Key West Aquarium.

There we saw many wonderous things.  We saw sting rays and sharks (again of the nurse variety) many sea turtles and we even got to watch them feed some of these amazing sea creatures (Highly recommend it even though it is very small) and hey, it provided shade which was extremely coveted during our trip.

Here are some pics from within...

From there we headed into a small mall and had a hot dog and chips for lunch.

{Editors note: If any of you decide to go to Key West, expect to pay about four times the normal price for food, like $8 for a hot dog, just FYI}

From there we visited the Key West Toy Factory, conveniently located within said mall.

I thought my brother might like this old rot iron staircase in the photo below (Pay no attention to the man on them with the pasty white legs):

It had a real Mr. Mogorium feel to it inside:

We left the Toy Factory post haste to head for our glass bottom boat ride.

Fury is the big dog of water adventures on the island and they do a great job.  The boat ride out made us a little nauseous, but it was fun once we got our sea legs.  The boat travels several miles away from shore out past lucky buoy 13 (Shown Below) which is the edge of the Bermuda Triangle, so we actually headed into the triangle (which is why I am blogging this from the Lost City of Atlantis).  Our boat never reached a sea depth of over 20 feet on our entire voyage, displaying how truly shallow the Keys are.  Once we arrived we learned tons about the ocean and her inhabitants as we stared through the looking glass at the bottom of the boat (cool and sickening all at the same time).

After viewing the ocean floor for about an hour our voyage headed back towards shore with one slight detour.  We watched the sun set from aboard our vessel.  Giving us some of the best sunset shots I have ever taken (including the Monday shot):

From there we headed back to port:

Then we went back to the hotel for air conditioning and rest...