Lets Get This Party Started!

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Geo: 25.7928, -80.1349

Day one of our travels was actually planned to be day of relaxing travel since our fight was not leaving Fort Lauderdale until close to midnight. We planned an early morning bus ride to Miami, and hopefully some fun times in South Beach. We had ourselves plenty of time, or so we thought, for Bill to get us to the terminal in Tampa. Stuck in traffic for an hour on the bridge was not factored into the plans. As our arrival time quickly approached, we resorted to the all knowing Google to navigate us quickly. I am fully convinced they know everything. Racing through through the streets of Tampa we arrive with only two minutes to spare. Megabus.com, the party has begun. This next portion of our journey was actually relaxing and uneventful. Surprisingly we arrived where we needed to be, and on time. Our drop off point was in downtown Miami, and we plugged in our location and waited for our Uber driver to arrive. And waited, and watched as the little car icon on the app got father away. We could only assume the short ride to South Beach was not a large enough far. Fortunately another young man was close behind and more than willing to take us. Dropped on South Beach, we did what any cool backpacker would, we trekked to the beach. (as i side note, trekked auto corrected to tweeked, but i caught it before posting). Feeling a little silly in our hiking gear we quickly changed into our proper beach attire and went to the water. Shortly after we found the local volleyball courts and threw the packs to the side and played a few games, leaving with our first winning record in South Beach. Dinner was awesome in a hole in the wall Mediterranean restaurant we found on a side street. We did a little window shopping, some people watching too, then off to the airport. The flight was great, although Annemarie slept while I had coctails on my own. Whatever Annemarie decideds to add in an attempt to describe me during this part of the trip is a lie. Managua, we have arrived!

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Photos

Hiking South Beach
Yes, we drew some attention. We loudly pretended we were with the travel channel and would be airing soon.

Having fun at the beach
Time for a refreshing dip after hiking on the beach.

Comments

[Dad]

I got this link on Wednesday morning so you are several days past Saturday's events. Sorry for the rough start (stuck on bridge) but sounds like everything went fine afterwards, especially volley ball. Hope you two are safe and having a g
reat time.

[Dad]

Actually it's Thursday morning.

[Big Momma]

Yes I have been a bit worried about you two but getting this blog lets me know you are ok! And, yes it is Thursday for the retired people who don't keep track of the days lol. Have fun and keep the blog entries coming. Love you, Mom

[tonshow]

I'm a little late but it sounds like an interesting trip, especially the tweaking on South Beach!