Florida Vacation - Saturday, Day Two

We decided to head into Miami today to wander around, see the sites, and possibly spend some time on the beach. After searching for what seemed like hours to find a place to park, we got lucky with a spot on the street....and headed towards Ocean Drive.

We had lunch at News Cafe after walking around for a bit.....and it was awesome. We got seats right on the sidewalk, so we had prime spots for all the people watching. You pretty much walk right through all of the restaurants when you're on the shop side of Ocean Drive, so everyone was going right in our path. It was a crazy crowded weekend due to it being Urban Beach Week, bonus for us. We ordered ourselves some nice frozen cold beverages and relaxed for a bit. It started to rain.....rain HARD....and so we sat there and enjoyed another round. :)


After the rain cleared up, we walked across to check out the beach. Hey, you can't go to Miami and not check out Miami Beach!! We had a lot of fun trying to get our classic JUMP picture, but didn't have the best success. We DID however, notice a guy sitting on the beach with a nice SLR camera, who was taking pictures of us while during our attempts. We went over to him afterwards and laughed so hard at the one he captured....it was awesome. Hysterical.


It started to rain again....and it was coming down hard while we were walking around. We looked ridiculous when we had to put our towels over our heads and make a run for it to the car to get back to Weston.


For dinner, we headed into Fort Lauderdale. After driving down Las Olas, it started to rain.......AGAIN. I mean, it was coming down so hard that we couldn't even park and run into somewhere or we would have been soaked. We even sat in the parking lot of Walgreens for a few minutes while it poured because we couldn't even make a dash for the door. But alas, finally, it slowed enough to where we could get in and get ourselves a few fun colored umbrellas. More on those later.....but we ended up for dinner at a local place that Nita had scoped out....Himmarshee Bar & Grill. What a great find....way to go Nita! We had a few appetizers and entrees, all shared family style at the table. All SO yummy.


We spent the rest of our evening doing a little dancing at Tarpon Bend and The Porterhouse Bar & Grill - great times with fun girls.


BUT....the most fun part of the evening was our little photoshoot that took place at the elevators of the parking garage on our way home. People were coming and going and looking at us like we were nuts....but we were laughing and having such a good time, we didn't really care. And hey....it's all about the pictures, right? :)