Ragnar Florida Keys: No More Running, Marathon

We woke up on Sunday morning around 8ish, having slept like the proverbial logs all night long.  After a quick shower, we coordinated the team and headed a mile down the road to breakfast at the Spotted Pig.


Ready?  Break!


You know it’s good if there’s a wait

We had to wait for a bit (it was 9:30 on a Sunday morning), but we were in the shade and the breeze felt great.  Murph’s wife Megan arrived the night before via the shuttle from Fort Lauderdale, and she and Murph stayed at the Sea Dell to finish up a load of laundry, but they were able to join us later after the laundry was done.  This led to one of my favorite post-run moments; where we were seated at the Spotted Pig, Scott had a small view of A1A, and as we were talking, he suddenly went deathly white.  He was able to sputter out that he saw our van drive by (as you remember from the pictures, only one vehicle looked like our van); he forgot for a moment that Murph and Megan still had the keys at the motel, and he thought we were the victims of a truly heinous van-jacking.  We quickly reminded him that it was probably Megan and Murph coming to join us for food, and we all laughed about the situation.  If you could have seen the look on his face…

Anywhoo, breakfast was awesome, and we all highly recommend the Pig.  They even gave Erin and I our own mini-pitchers of Diet Coke and tea!


Cheers to caffeine!

During breakfast, Murph and Meg mentioned that they had reservations to go snorkeling that afternoon, and Erin, Scott, and Chris decided to join them.  Taira and I declined, Taira because she gets seasick, me because I don’t really like being in the water with fish*; instead, we hung out at the Sea Dell doing laundry, logging into class, and reading by the pool – everyone had a lovely day!

Here are some pics of the crew doing their Jacque Cousteau impressions:


Watch out, Erin, it's the krakken!




Meg and Murph



Murph doing her best "Nevermind" baby impression





Chris, swimming to and fro

Scott took these with his water resistant camera.
Aren’t they great?

After snorkeling, Chris grabbed a Cuban sandwich and some Modelo from the deli across the road, then joined Taira and I at the pool.  The rest of the gang went for second lunch at a local place called Castaway’s, which turned into happy hour.  They came back to meet us at the Sea Dell and we headed to the Marathon Grill and Ale House for a dinner of our own, drinks, and a rousing game of Cards Against Humanity.  For the sake of everyone’s delicate constitution, I won’t be posting pictures of the cards we played, but my sides still hurt from laughing.

We headed home and after doing a quick online check to confirm the shuttle time to Key West the next day, it was off to bed!  The next day, we were heading south!

Later!

Amy

* Once, in Hawaii, Chris and I were snorkeling.  Chris went, “look, honey, fish!”  I went, “eeeeeeee!” and swam back to shore where I proceeded to sunbathe for the rest of the day.  I figured me going snorkeling was a waste of money, even if I would have enjoyed the boat ride.

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