Key West - The kids get home at 2:00 am and glorious flowers

 

Walking along any street in Key West - you’ll see displays such as these

The adventure never stopped for the kids headed home. They had to rent a car to get to Ft Lauderdale in time to catch their flight from there to Hartford. They talked to an agent over the phone to secure the car but she said they were not sure they had one, it depended upon someone returning a car they had previously rented. Rather than wait for a call from the rental agency, they took Uber to be at the office. When the agent said they had no car, they pointed to a car going out just then and asked, “why wasn’t that our car?” After some discussion on that point, they eventually got a rental. 

The tree was covered with these blooms

They piled right in and headed to Ft Lauderdale. Upon arriving, they discovered that the rental agent added on every conceivable extra and charged for two days instead of one day to a total of $600! I showed a price of $140 using Enterprise’s internet site. So now they have a fight on their hands for the overcharge. 

Not just read flowers, lots of different colors

They should have received a refund on their flight from Key West to Ft Lauderdale but when they arrived at the ticket agency they received a royal run-around with each company pointing fingers at the other one as being responsible for a refund with statements like, “You didn’t read the fine print - we don’t refund for Acts of God”. They would have us believe that an equipment problem with the aircraft which was responsible for the delay was an “Act of God”. So they have yet another fight to pursue. What a nightmare. However, they had a great time in Key West and I think they are eager to do it again if we make it down here in 2023. 

On the way to the supermarket, a local residence 

We took it easy today, recovering from all the visits. I rearranged the boat to move stuff around making more room for our main living area (utilizing the storage area in the aft cabin that was now freed up). It was also about 5 degrees cooler today and we walked the streets looking at all the new flowering plants coming out in March in Key West. They are just gorgeous.