BrodieFay

The night before was long, I was so tired but couldn't sleep! It was so bright, and a lady kept repeating the time over the loudspeaker every 15 minutes. I was already asleep before the plane left Miami and only woke for my glass of water and juice and a packet of nuts! :)Just before we'd checked in at Miami Laura and I had decided to go straight to New York once we got into DC and join a tour that would do the main sites of New York, Washington DC, Niagara Falls and Boston.So as soon as we got off at Baltimore we trained it to DC, then got on a bus ride to NYC that ended up taking 6 hours to get there because of traffic.The bus was meant to have free wifi, but ... read more

We were up and ready early even though we didn't need to leave until 11:30. At our last big buffet breakfast I was soo depressed! Our shuttle took us to the airport, our flights and stop over went fine and we got into Miami by 10:30. Getting back into the USA took forever,our line was extremely slow and a lady came and found us and said our bags were waiting near a carousel, everyone else had got through, and it was just us, waiting for this guy to HURRY UP!We weren't really in a hurry though as we were 'sleeping' in the airport that night before our flight to Washington DC at 8:30 the next morning.... read more

Today we got up had breki and got ready for our speed boat and snorkeling tour at the marina not far from the resort. This was the first time we had left the resort since we'd got there so I was psyched.The speed boat was fun and the beaches and bays were beautiful and the water was a beautiful clear blue/ green. When we pulled up to go snorkelling I was terrified as it was the darker water we had come across, but as soon as you put your head under the water it was beautiful. Laura had forgotten that she was terrified of fish which was hilarious as they were not scared of us and were swimming right up to us. They also have a 'museum' (man made) Under the water which was pretty cool. ... read more

We woke at about midday/ one o'clock feeling very sick and trying to recall what the hell had happened the night before, as well as realising we'd ordered room service for that morning which we must have slept through :/We slowly pieced the night together but I have absolutely no idea where my awesome orange thongs that I bought in Miami went! It poured most of that day and we stayed in bed for most of it watching E! only braving the day for Lunch and then dinner at the Mexican restaurant.... read more

Slept in, buffet breki, laziness by the pool, buffet lunch, sunbaking and drinking at the adults pool/ swim up bar where we met Becky and Al- a middle aged couple who were extremely friendly and like most americans we've met totally amazed by our trip, dinner, then to our besty bar tenders at Collage Bar. It was very busy in the bar this night and El Fino and Miquel were consistently putting drinks, shooters and shots in front of us even though I was willing for water. Haha. We then commenced to make friends with a lot of people including the couple who had just got married, three under age girls, a Scottish couple who LOVED us and introduced us to there young daughters and said they wanted them to turn out like us! Haha. Us, ... read more

I was up and ready for the gym by 6:50 which was a lovely change from the usual exhausted sleep ins. We went to the gym (overlooking the water) and then went to the buffet for breakfast which was AWESOME! We then got straight into our swimmers and went to the beach, buffet for lunch, then we tried out the 'adults only' pool which was cool as there were no kids, spas and a swim up bar! We sunbaked for a while and made use of the bar! We also got a lot of joy at how shocked some of the Mexican people who worked there were at how tall we were. One even started talking to us and said, 'but what do you eat!?' haha. Ouch. That night we went to the adults only French ... read more

Woke up at 4am and were at Miami air port by 5 for our flights to Cancun, Mexico! We were very excited to just get there and RELAX as we had been going non stop the whole time. We started the trip saying 'we'll sleep when we're dead' and then throughout the trip exhaustion and a lot of fatty food changed the saying too 'we'll sleep and exercise when we're in Cancun'. We were excited to leave the crappy rainy weather in Miami but when we got into Cancun it was still overcast which was poo. The shuttle that I had organised got us to the resort in a flash and I was ridiculously excited. I have never been to a resort before (and I did a degree in it!) let alone an ALL INCLUSIVE resort ... read more

We got up early and caught a bus straight to the main land with the intent of hiring bikes, but when we got there they didn't have the bikes we could afford AGAIN! Plus it looked like it was about to start pouring so we walked around the bayside area wondering what to do and trying to find info for the hop on hop off buses when we ran into their main terminal. We jumped on one and it took us to all the main areas we wanted to see (except the Miami design district) and we the guides were really informative and it worked out so much better than us trying to find all those spread out places on bikes... In the rain.Plus it took us straight back to near our hostel! We got home ... read more

Today was my day to sleep in till 12:30! Whoops! Today my hangover was even worse than yesterday but we were determined to go bike riding on the main land so we headed off with me wondering if I'd be able to ride with my head spinning like that. We stopped in to a Cuban restaurant for breki and both ended up with nothing Cuban. When we got to the bike rental shop they unfortunately (thankfully as I was dying) didn't have any of the bikes that we could afford (so poor and only half way through our trip) so we trudged home without doing anything and played on our iPads and took a much needed nap!When I got up I heard some other aussies in the hostel talking about the Miami Heat NBA playoff game ... read more

I woke up at about 10:30 which we never let ourselves do because we never want to miss anything but we were in Miami for four nights so we were a bit more lenient! Laura ended up sleeping until I woke her at 12:42! We went for a very hungover lunch at South Beach and walked around that part of town looking at everything (including the actual beach- which is the nicest US beach I've seen so far, but has no waves!) before heading back to the hostel to chill out and google things for the rest of our trip. That night we went looking for Cuban food (Miami has a high Cuban population) and ran into the boys who were going for steaks, we didn't find any good Cuban Food in that area so we ... read more