It was a great visit from John (Steve's brother in case it isn't obvious from the pictures!), his wife Daisy and Daisy's sister, June (never having met June, we speculated on her name: the gamete ran from Rose to Petunia! - what a good sport she was :-)) First off, we wanted to see for ourselves the horseshoe tossing form that makes Daisy so good. Even with the poorly maintained "courts" she did not disappoint!
Somehow they always seem to make the news! They spent several days at Terri and Scott's house (in Bradenton) and ended up with their picture in the Sarasota newspaper... not sure who they know ..... but congrats on the wedding anniversary :-) (FYI: the tux is a T-shirt!!)
Since their arrival was late in the day on Sunday, the evening was spent sitting outside the boat visiting, relaxing and waiting for the sunset (pictured is Joe, John and Steve). As usual, it did was great. Dinner on shore by the boat and then goodbye's to Joe and Joy (left for the Bahama's Monday morning). The game of choice of the evening was Dominoes - lots of fun as we hadn't played Mexican Train in a long time. Sleeping quarters for June and Daisy was the front V-berth (complete with private head) and for John - the flybridge. He claims it was very comfortable ......
Up early on Monday with a walk along the old 7 mile bridge (I stayed behind and made sure no one took our seats on the bench :-) ). It's about 2 miles out and then 2 miles back - guess that was the exercise for the day. Of course everyone needed refueling after all of that so we went to Sunset Grill for lunch, then a quick stop at the Turtle Hospital (we actually just went to the main display area that had much information on the turtles that inhabit the Keys waters).
Back to the boat where John and Steve went kayaking. Nice day for it - some fish were spotted but the biggest fish spotted was a large (2 1/2 foot) barracuda sitting right under our boat! There was also a hammerhead shark (small) seen just off of the end of the dock. Steve saw it but no one else (mmmmmm......)
A short boat outing was in order (why come to visit someone who lives on a boat if you don't go out on the water??!) so we left about 1 1/2 hours before sunset and enjoyed our desert (yes - before dinner) of key lime pie. Steve and John also had stone crab claws as we awaited the sunset over water and hoped for a view of the green blip as the sun set. Unfortunately it was just a bit hazy so we were disappointed (check out youtube for green blip videos if you are a nonbeliever). 
Up early again today with a final group shot before breakfast at I-HOP. John, Daisy and June are headed to Orlando today and then back home by the weekend. It was great to see them again - they now hold the record for the number of nights spend staying on our boat with us at 3 nights! Maybe they will be back .....
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