Saturday, March 23, 2013 – Cocoa:

            Wow!  It is hot today! 

            Woke up to the gentle patter of “rain on the roof”, which slowly gave way to sunshine, heat, and humidity!  No!  I’m not complaining!

            It was another lazy day, and we watched a few boats come into the marina, but, basically, we just played cards, read, and goofed off.  After making a breakfast and lunch of interesting “finds” in the refrigerator, Bob suggested we walk to this little store we saw around the corner and up the street.  It’s called the Florida Key Lime Pie Company, and I think they have stores in other locations as well as here in Cocoa.  It’s a pretty interesting little place though.  It’s decorated in lime green colors, and they have a steel drum band playing outside.  They serve Jamaican style food, which you order from an outside window, and then carry it upstairs to eat.  We didn’t order the food, but we did go inside intent on buying a key lime pie.

            Once inside, they offer you a “taste” of their “Key Lime Pie in a Cup”, and it is delicious.  They also have something called a “mushy” which is a cheesecake mushed up in a mason jar.  They have several different flavors such as “Girl Done Gat Me All Swirly,” “Mangolicious,” “Pelican Poop,” and I swear I am not making this up, but they have something called (which was near and dear to my heart) “Fell Off Me Bike and Crapped Me Pants!”  That seemed to be everyone’s favorite, because they were out of it.  We settled on “Chocolata,” a couple of Key Lime Pies in a Cup, and made tracks back to the boat!

            Once back and our desserts cooling nicely in the frig, we headed up to the fly bridge for some afternoon people watching, and while we were people watching, Bob happened to notice a manatee swimming out by the entrance to the location of our slip.  I tried to hurry and get the camera, but he or she swam away, I guess, in search of something tastier than what it found in the water near us.

The elusive manatee

Some fish swimming by the boat

            We had some shrimp and cocktail sauce that we took up to the fly bridge for dinner, and Miss Lucy decided to join us up there while we ate and people watched some more.  The clouds are filling up the sky and the breeze is hot, but the weatherman does not indicate any storms on the way.

            Tomorrow we are joining another boat neighbor for brunch at a local restaurant called Branos then we’ll see what other trouble we can get into.