Coconut Grove

Day 60 & 61
March 1 & 2, 2016
Tues and Wed
Miami, FL

Day 60   3/1/16
We got up and met Enterprise to get a rental car.  We did not need it to drive to West Marine because it was literally beside the car rental place.  We walked over got a new pump for the shower drain and a waterway guide for southern FL, the Keys and the western side of FL. We went to breakfast, at 11, so I got hot dog but everyone else ate breakfast food. Then we drove to Walmart, Lee was hoping they would have an optical dept that could adjust his new gasses. They didn't.   Then  to a nearby store, Fresh Market.  It is a lot like Trader Joes. Got good stuff. Stricklands got steaks to grill and I got salad.  Lee was not hungry. We got other miscellaneous stuff too.  Oddly that took almost all day.  The last water taxi leaves at 5 so got to head back to the boat by 5

Lee tried installing the new shower drain pump but it did not fix the problem. He finally concluded he needed a new switch not a pump. When we return the car in the morning he can pick up a switch. We listened to election results as much as we dared. We are eating up data like it was candy.  Our guy won a few but is not in the lead.  But I still hold out hope, good guys can finish first occasionally.


Day 61   3/2/16
We caught the 8 am water taxi to shore. We all ate at the Fresh Market except Mitch.  Lee had a sweet roll, I had mini scones, and Martha had a strawberry pillow.  It was enormous and covered with powdered sugar and good creamy stuff.  Martha could hardly attack it.  It dumped sugar all over her, left her with a whip cream mustache and we all enjoyed watching her try to eat it. Even other diners were laughing. While the guys returned the car to enterprise Martha and I did laundry. About the time we finished the laundry the guys were back.  Lee got a new lucci light and a new switch.  We took our stuff back to the taxi dock and went back to our boats.  I napped and Lee fixed the shower drain.
When 2 rolled around we went to shore again and walked a block or two to the edge of Coco Walk and ate at a place called the Book Store. We missed the 4 oclock taxi by a hair so had to wait til 5 to go back to the boat. We plan to get water and head north to do a day of off shore to Ft Lauderdale tomorrow. Check Lee's facebook for a pic of Martha and the Monster Strawberry Pillow.