Miami

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE South Beach. Kind of like Manhatten is to New York....You drive over a bridge from Downtown Miami to South Beach and it's designed like a grid so easy to get around but obvious differences being the beach and the Art Deco buildings so not really anything like Manhattan..

Spent the first of our three days exploring around our hotel on Collins Avenue (Shopping), Ocean Drive (Strip of restaurants looking out to the beach - Mission Bay esk.) and walked up to Lincoln Road (plaza like area with cute outdoor restaurants and shops...and beautiful people)and had the best tuna nicoise salad i've ever had served by the best waiter i've ever had.

Day two we were expecting a storm but when we got outside it was 80 degrees and blue sky. Made our way down to the beach and didn't move for the rest of the day. Glorious. And yes Sheena and Audrey - bright red by the end of the day. I will never learn. That night we went down to one of the restaurants on the beach and as soon as we sat down at a restaurant the police blocked off our section of the road. When we asked our waitress what was happening she said "I guess someone has just been shot or something". Nice. Spent the next couple of hours with front row seats to the helicopter sweeping the beach, multiple cop cars coming and going and even more stupid people giving the police at the road block excuses why they had to go through the blocked off area. Tourists.

Day three, Danny's day. Drove an hour out of Miami to go to Alligator Park at which I only saw two tiny baby alligators in the actual everglades. At least he got to hold one and on the way home we stopped off to have some Cuban food - Very good.

Cheerio for now
Margot xx