Back in North America

After a long day of traveling on Saturday, we arrived in Miami at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning, We'd really just like to be home but with spring break, we aren't able to get a flight out until Wednesday. So meanwhile, we're enjoying some sun, the beach and exploring this city some more. It really is a beautiful place - I can see why people like to come here in the wintertime! I could make this an annual event quite easily, I think!



This is the garden that wraps around the pool at our hotel. I'll share more pictures soon.




It was a gorgeous Sunday in Miami Beach yesterday with brilliant sunshine, a calm ocean and lots of people on the beach. We went for a long walk on the boardwalk and then ploughed through the sand, trying to get to 'where the beach curves', in Bob's words. We walked for an hour and the curve was still ahead somewhere!




When we woke up this morning, the palm trees outside our window were blowing around and there's been a strong, strong wind all day. The waves are much higher with whitecaps and breaking surf pounding the beach today. It was still 80 degrees F but cloudier. These winds made us wonder what it's like when a hurricane is brewing out on the Atlantic.




And after 2 weeks of lugging around a laptop that wouldn't boot up, Bob splurged and bought this baby, right down on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. He's a very good shopper when it comes to electronics for himself :)) Well, I helped just a little and we are both enjoying it already. Working with iPhoto was a challenge today but I learned alot in a short time!

365 Project at Miami Waterfront

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A little photographic tour of our day. Enjoy!!




Today we had alligator tidbits for an appetizer. They tasted alot like calamari and we've decided to try one new food each day on this trip. We'll let you know how it goes.




Dessert at lunch time was a delicious, light pineapple sorbet which came in this little frozen pineapple shell.




We took a bus to downtown this afternoon and hopped on the free People Mover (a monorail) to get to the harbour. Later we rode it and did the whole loop - about 3 times, got off, walked to the bus stop, waited for 30 minutes and figured out we missed the last bus of the day. So we got back on, rode around back to the harbour, walked to the nearest hotel and caught a cab back home. It was "The Day of the Very Long Walk and Wait" - but we made lots of memories.

Here are a few things we saw today:




I call this 'Avenue of the Palms'. I don't know what the locals call it :))




Waterfront condos




You've heard of 'hole in the wall' places - how about 'hole in the roof'?




I think you would smile every time you came home to these condos!




Four Seasons Hotel Garden




Bayfront Park complete with colorful chairs and white sand.




As dusk approached, we walked along the marina and discussed doing a harbour cruise another time. We'd seen this motorboat cruising the harbour a few times during the day and it was docked in the marina. And - - - it was loading for the sunset cruise so we hopped on and had a very special ending to our day! Bob was pretty apprehensive at first but ended up loving our spontaneous decision (he can be like that sometimes!!).




The front of the 890 horsepower twin hull motorboat. Our ride was fast, surprising smooth and wet as we made sharp turns!




And this is what Miami's downtown looks like from the water. It was a very good day - I'm glad I could share it with you!