Key West Adventures, Celebrity Edge

Our adventures on the luxurious new Edge, a ship only in service around three months, started in Key West on Monday. After high-powered walks on the ship's jogging track and gym workouts, we explored Key West. The town still boasts many lovely, old Victorian mansions, but the main street, Duval, has been over-commercialized with shops or bars in every building. Hoards of tourists crowd the streets. For lunch, we had a reservation at Bistrot 245, a pleasant eatery on the waterfront, overlooking our ship. After eating, we walked to a different part of town, more residential and quieter. On Whitehead Street we visited one of Key West's most popular attractions, Hemmingway's house. It's another early 19th century mansion and the most unique attractions are descendants of the authors six-toed cats, who lounge everywhere, even on his bed, and have their own kennel. Late afternoon we returned to the ship. Jim enjoyed the Dog Tag tea dance party before We headed to the Martini bar and then dinner at the Tuscan restaurant, one of four different- themed main restaurants on board Edge. Tuesday the Edge sailed the Gulf of Mexico north of Cuba enroute to our next port of call, Costa Maya, on the East coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where we we spend the day on Wednesday. - Dan