florida vacation- part 1. (miami seaquarium)
See, this time I’m keeping my word about posting pictures quickly.
This was our first trip where my parents wouldn’t be there (we would only have our last night of the trip all together) in the apartment. I was told that I had to take a picture of the way the pillows are arranged on the bed so that I could recreate it upon departure.
We flew down and arrived Tuesday evening and had our traditional first meal at Padrino’s (love me some croquettas!). Spent Wednesday afternoon (after my massage in the morning with the fabulous Asela) at the Miami Seaquarium. It wasn’t warm enough out to go swimming so we made the trip down there to do something different.
On the way down, John and I were discussing the itenerary for the rest of the trip. We decided that based on the weather forecast being pretty chilly for the weekend that we would go and visit his parents up in Port St. Lucie on Fri and see the Mets at spring training there too. I wondered out loud if Camie (my college roommmate) would be up to driving down from Orlando to meet us in St.Lucie so we could visit. It was at that point that John said something about going to Disney for two days- and did I want to do it. Uhhh…yeah! When would I not want to go to Disney??
So while John and the boys checked out the fish and the dolphins, I was on the phone with Disney reservations trying to figure something out for under $1000.00 for the weekend. More on Disney in another post, but suffice it to say we came in a little over budget but still decided to do it and totally surprise the boys. So the rest of the day at the Seaquarium was just a little more fun, with me trying to surpress the giggles at the upcoming surprise!
Funny story with the picture of Timmy on the drain. He’s very, VERY wary about walking on things like that so I had to take a picture of him on there. He still takes a ginormous step out of elevators- I think he’s afraid of falling thru the crack between the elevator cab and the floor! He won’t walk over grates in the sidewalk, and has the same elevator issue when getting on the plane from the hallway thingy.
John loves pelicans. Or maybe just saying ‘pelican’ in his best scarface accent.
Went to Captain Jim’s (which is in the WORST neighborhood, with an armed guard stationed outside. Who we didn’t see this trip- maybe he was being held at gunpoint in the back?) for a seafood dinner. Probably not a great idea after leaving the Seaquarium, but no one got the flipper special for dinner. So first we see em. Then we eat em.
