Christmas in Key West

I was hoping to be able to stay one more week and spend Christmas in Minnesota with my family, but on instead I'll be working in Key West over the holidays. A group of my friends and family were able to meet for a late lunch at the Cheesecake Factory on Saturday before I left. Everyone was excited about being on my blog so here's a few pictures. From left to right, my mom and dad, Jess (on the right) and me, Katie and Renee, and the Julies.




When I arrived on Sunday afternoon it was raining pretty heavily. Since then the temperature has been around 75 degrees with partly cloudy skies. I'm staying in the Doubletree Grand Key Resort which is pretty nice. No kitchen like what I had in Las Vegas, but everything else is better and I do have a small refrigerator and a microwave.

After arriving, I found out that my work schedule would be 5:00 am to 1:30 pm with Tuesday and Wednesday off. Good thing I stayed up all night on Saturday and was tired enough to go to bed by 8:30. I wasn't the planning on pulling an all-nighter, but Katie surprised me with a very generous Christmas present. She gave me an iPod Nano so I stayed up and loaded songs onto iTunes eliminating the need to bring CDs.

I intended to get up early today so I wouldn't get to far off schedule, but it was 8:30 by the time I rolled out of bed. Hopefully I can do a little better tomorrow morning. This afternoon I took the hotel shuttle downtown and walked around Duval Street. There are a lot souvenir shops, restaurants and bars in that area. I took a few pictures of Christmas decorations in the area and I also included a photo of Key West from the plane just before we landed. I have a few more pictures to share, but I'm just going to put them on Snapfish since Blogger is extremely slow right now. Merry Christmas! I'll be thinking all of you, especially over this next week.