I love Miami

 In mid-July, I took a trip with two of the girls from work and we spent the weekend in Miami. What an amazing vacation. This was filled with many firsts for me and knocked off several items on my bucket list. The first and most important item was to fly on a plane. Yes, I am 62 and never been on a plane. So this was an exciting event.  Just boarding and sitting on the tarmac was exciting.

But once we were airborne and I could see our town, it became a reality.

I can honestly say that climbing above the clouds was so amazing and a little intimidating. But I just had about 5 seconds of fear before the beauty overcame everything.

My friend Dee Dee (left) was so helpful and walked me through the whole process. Shea joined us later since she flew out from a neighboring town.

Once we landed and got the rental car, we checked in our bungalow. It was amazing. 

First stop was a little restaurant called Jaxson's and it was amazing. 

You know how restaurants will bring bread or chips to munch on when you wait for your meal? They bring a big bowl of popcorn with your menu. It was awesome. 

 Then we headed for Miami. The buildings are so tall....everywhere....down there. It was beautiful and overwhelming all at the same time. 

We had pre-purchased a Go Miami pass. For $156 per person there are over 20 things you can do in Miami and you have three days to do them. We picked four things to do and they would have cost us $395 had we paid for each place without the Go Miami. It was amazing. First thing we did was to go to the harbor.

We did some shopping and ate. Then our cruise left to tour South Beach. This was our tour boat.

We went all around the waterways and toured Millionaire's Row. So many famous people have homes there that I can't even remember who all we saw. But my favorite and most excited was to see the home and yacht of one of my favorite singers, Alicia Keys. Obviously I had to get a picture of it.

As we toured the harbor, we got to see all the container ships that were coming in from around the world loaded with goodies.

We saw a couple of cruise ships. The Carnival one was so HUGE.

When we got back from the cruise, we actually went on a double decker bus for a night tour of Miami. We sat on the top deck which was open air with no roof. It was a fun, but windy ride. We really enjoyed seeing it by night. The tour was about an hour and a half so we covered a lot of the town. They gave us ear buds which we plugged into the seat and the tour guide told us about everything we were passing. It was amazing and gorgeous. 

Then we headed back to the hotel and had pizza and sat up talking half the night. We all work together so we all know the same people. Never a dull moment with these gals.

And that was just day 1. Day 2 was my favorite day. Come back tomorrow to see what excitement we had that day.