One of the best-kept secrets in Key West are the windows at Fast Buck Freddie's on New Year's Day. Almost no one is up early enough to appreciate them. And if they're already set up on New Year's Eve, well, most people are too busy partying in the streets and on the bight to pay attention.
I love the windows for their over-the-top, mad, gorgeous fun. Fast Buck's opens late on New Year's Day, but they do open and this glorious mess is cleaned up before they do. So I make the trek to Fast Buck's early, before they clean out the drunken mannequins in their party clothes and glittery top hats, the dead bottles of champagne, and masses of bright streamers.
The street cleaners have scrubbed away the last scent of stale, spilled booze from the three--that's right, three!--New Year's Eve street parties, the dog walkers are stumbling after their busy pets, the always-confused Key West roosters continue to crow up the sun until noon. It's another beautiful, warm, breezy day on the island.
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