Monday 19 February Key West 2007

Casa Thorn really lived up to my expectations; our Moroccan room is so over the top, stunning and sexy. We had a marble en suite bathroom with an enormous pink Jacuzzi and chandeliers and mirrors everywhere. The bed is a huge Moroccan intricately carved four poster king sized covered with about sixteen bejewelled silk and velvet cushions, and a velvet bedspread. The walls are painted with scenes from the desert; it is truly straight out of the Arabian Nights! I spent some time talking with Joanna who works at Casa Thorn whilst having coffee and waiting for my new husband to wake up. She was really excited about our Elvis wedding, and asked to hear all about it. We ate breakfast out on our private patio area beside the pool, once Andrew was up. Then we drove off to explore the area, at Anne's Beach we parked up and went for a walk, the sea was beautiful all indigo blue and turquoise, just as I remembered it. We walked by the sea for a while, but I hadn't slept well at all the last few nights and was suddenly overcome by a bout of wishy-washiness and had to go and sleep. Andrew was hungry so we stopped at Craig's Fish Restaurant on the way back, I at conch chowder and Andrew had the speciality fish sandwich with fries. After a few hours of rest I was feeling much better and we set off again to explore. We wandered around some shops then stopped at the Lorelei to have drinks, Rum Punch and beer, and watched the sun setting over the Keys. We found the pink Nauti-limo moored up by the dock and took some photos, a nautical pink Cadillac - but not as good as our Elvis one. It was really cold after the sun went down, we went to eat at Marker 88 again as the food was excellent the night before and it's close to Casa Thorn so we could both drink some wine - an excellent Burgess. Back at our Moroccan room we finished the bottle of wine and settled down for the night.