Arrived at Fort Myers this afternoon, going to take a ferry boat to Key West tomorrow with my friend Litao. As we were parking the car and going to walk to the beach to watch its sunset, my cell phone rang, I had bad feeling, and my instinct was correct... the ferry boat was canceled due to tomorrow's rough weather.
 
It is a 6 hours drive from Fort Myers to Key West. I had never driven more than 2 hours, so did Litao, but she was an experienced driver when she was in China. So finally we decided to drive to Key West the next day, though I was worried all night, couldn't sleep, checked weather, and even looked through some carpool websites hoping to find someone could be the driver for us.
 
The photo above was taken at Fort Myers beach, after talked to the person from the ferry boat and our husbands in Tampa.
 
When we walked to the beach, the sun was already down, but it was still pretty, and I noticed this young girl, picking up shells at water's edge.
 
...She made this picture better than a Sunset.
 
P.S: Better not to prepay for the ferry boat and hotel, because the ferry boat (Key West Express) wouldn't refund the money (they were only willing to give a credit), and hotel in Key West would charge us one night's fee if we reschedule the date.

                    
Saw a bunch of beautiful razor clams at market... couldn't help myself buying them back. It was about 1.5 lb, I cooked them in a Chinese way... soaked clams in lightly salted water for over an hour, then cleaned each clam in running water first (these two steps are crucial if you don't want to have a mouthful of sand), then dipped them in boiling water.. counted to 15 seconds, drained and placed on a plate, poured a little soy sauce and precooked rice noodle, ginger, finely chopped sweet bell peppers; spring onions on top, then poured hot seasoned oil over... done!
 
It was the first time I introduced this strange looking clams to Alan... he really liked them, I almost had to fight with him for grabbing some of the clams for myself.
 
                    
Left: before they were cooked, right: the details after they were cooked.

                
This Lantern Festival, I made 5 "rou tangyuan" - meat filling glutinous dumplings. They were perfect looking and tasted heavenly. For the filling.. I mixed seasoned ground pork with soup jello, so that once it was cooked, the soup jello would melt and turned to soup again, gave each bite a great pleasure.
 
            
              The close up after I gave it a little bite ...