Today, we spent the day just wondering around the city in search of landmarks, kid-friendly activities and “gotta see” stuff. It was a really relaxing day despite the heat. However, we found plenty of indoor places to cool down and intermixed them throughout the day.

For our history lesson today, we visited Harry Truman’s The Little White House. It was initially a naval station’s command headquarters during the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II. In 1946, President Harry S. Truman started using it as his winter home. [Read more…]

We spent the day exploring Key West. Jenny, Kate and I visited the Old Town, had Key Lime pie from Key West Key Lime Shoppe, toured the Shipwreck Treasures Museum, visited the Key West Aquarium and then found our way back to South Beach and Southernmost Beach Cafe & Bar for fun in the sand and food in the bellies.

Kate had such a find time today. As we walked through the Old Town, she got to touch sponges from the ocean, we bought her a very bohemian dress, and her little mind experienced new sites, sounds and American Capitalism at is best. She has always loved fish and the aquarium was probably her favorite spot. She touched her first star fish, nurse shark and silver dollar. Also, she loved meeting the rock crabs, shrimp and lobster, turtle, jelly fish, Clownfish (“hey, there’s Nemo), the various anemone, lots of shellfish, seeing the big shark.

Oh, and most importantly, Kate rode her first surf board. While it was on sand, she “hung 10” better than any other almost 1.5 year old.

Here are some pictures from our day: [Read more…]