Allie Key west

Allie Bridges 02-4-2012

Today is Saturday and our first expedition has now come to an conclusion.  We are now headed back to the Base after two weeks in the Florida KeysJ! Life in the Keys was amazing, relaxing and very exciting. <3 Today we woke up a 4AM to make the 16 hour dive back to North Carolina.  It should be better than our drive down here which was a two day trip down. Monday morning we woke up at base and we were in the van by 9AM that morning. 

The first few hours were not very eventful and nothing really happened. Then things started to get interesting in Georgia. Our first incident was that the van popped a tire from running over a nail. We pulled over on the side of the highway and started fooling around and doing some Scuba work. It took Richard 2 hours to return with the van (we were all very happy to see him after wards). The rest of that day went by without any other difficulties. We camped at a very nice camp ground that was on the outskirts of Florida. 

The next morning we woke up at the usual 6AM and did our run and loaded everything back up into the van and started driving again. Everyone was pretty quiet and was occupied with their iPods and books that they had brought with them ( I finished two books in 5 hours J).  Then about 4 hours before we got to our destination all the tires on the boat trailer went flat. J So at 7 o’clock at night we pulled over at a tire place and got new tires. Then we got back on the road. We arrived at Scout Key at about 12AM <3. The counselors had a lot of tired and mad kids setting up tents. J

 The two weeks flew by with the boat, scuba diving and just having a blast.  We went to Bahia Honda State park, The Hemingway house in Key West and Fort Jefferson also in Key West. We had a fabulous time but my all-time favorite was going to the Hemingway house and seeing all of the 6 toed cats and learning that Mr. Hemingway was the first person to build a pool in his house. But the two weeks were up L and the Saturday we were going home. So we went to KEY WEST! We had fun their and watched all of the street performers and bought a lot of snacks and sweets. All in all we had an awesome time. Then Saturday morning we were woken up at 4AM to hit the road back to North Carolina.

The trip back seemed a lot faster than the way down because first, we didn’t have that big old boat to hall around everywhere and nothing bad happened. For the most part we slept. We also caught up on sleep when we weren’t eating or getting mad at each other for getting in our sleeping areas. All in all we slept for more than we were awake until about 11PM, when everyone was asleep but me and Anna, but me and Anna got to have a snack and we got Orange Crush and we got high and started singing to Phineas and Pherb, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lavato and the Cheetah Girls. It was sooo Amazing and fun J . We arrived back in North Carolina about 11:00PM. When we got out of the van there were a couple of gasps because it was so COLD!!!!!!! J . THEN WE WENT TO SSSSSSSSLLLLLLEEEEEEEPPPPPP!!!!!! (not that we really needed it) ;p

Love lots,  Allie C. Bridges