Admittedly, when my friend Anthony and I decided to go to Miami for a long weekend, I think we were just thrilled with the idea of being warm. We threw around Quebec City and Montreal... but after reading about the arctic freeze that's typical for February, we went for sun.
I don't know what we were thinking, two New Yorkers, pale and not into clubbing... what could we do for fun? Well, we ended up at the beach (which is where I sustained the worst sunburn I've had in my life) I can't convey just how white my body is, but I have no business being on the beach.. which is probably why my choice to do the goth thing in high-school worked out in my favour, but anyway, we ate at Carrabbas... which seemed slightly pathetic to me, since it's a chain restaurant.. but oh well.. because everywhere else we went we were charged insanely crazy prices and huge gratuity on top of it all...
I think towards the end, we realized that we were going to have to spend huge amounts of cash anywhere we went, so we did end up having a great time at SushiSamba on the last night.. we pigged out on Argentinian steak and got totally wasted on mojitos.. by then it was like "screw it" right? If we were going to blow another hundred and fifty dollars, then we'd at least enjoy it...
We did manage to find some fun stuff to do. We went to the keys to go snorkeling, I got to swim with a big sea turtle (and a shark, but thank god I didnt see that), and Anthony drank anti-freeze and got sick.. (heh, I'm fairly sure that he hated the entire snorkel experience but at the time I was in denial) We ate terrible fajitas at the "best fajita place in town", we went to see Absinthe, which was by far the funnest (is that even a word?) thing that we did.. and we managed to stay drunk for most of the trip.
Overall, my favorite thing (besides the drunk part) about Miami though, was the art deco architecture. It was absolutely stunning and it so much fun to go exploring in South Beach. So, maybe we had a Miami vacation New York style, but I'm glad we went.
I don't know what we were thinking, two New Yorkers, pale and not into clubbing... what could we do for fun? Well, we ended up at the beach (which is where I sustained the worst sunburn I've had in my life) I can't convey just how white my body is, but I have no business being on the beach.. which is probably why my choice to do the goth thing in high-school worked out in my favour, but anyway, we ate at Carrabbas... which seemed slightly pathetic to me, since it's a chain restaurant.. but oh well.. because everywhere else we went we were charged insanely crazy prices and huge gratuity on top of it all...
I think towards the end, we realized that we were going to have to spend huge amounts of cash anywhere we went, so we did end up having a great time at SushiSamba on the last night.. we pigged out on Argentinian steak and got totally wasted on mojitos.. by then it was like "screw it" right? If we were going to blow another hundred and fifty dollars, then we'd at least enjoy it...
We did manage to find some fun stuff to do. We went to the keys to go snorkeling, I got to swim with a big sea turtle (and a shark, but thank god I didnt see that), and Anthony drank anti-freeze and got sick.. (heh, I'm fairly sure that he hated the entire snorkel experience but at the time I was in denial) We ate terrible fajitas at the "best fajita place in town", we went to see Absinthe, which was by far the funnest (is that even a word?) thing that we did.. and we managed to stay drunk for most of the trip.
Overall, my favorite thing (besides the drunk part) about Miami though, was the art deco architecture. It was absolutely stunning and it so much fun to go exploring in South Beach. So, maybe we had a Miami vacation New York style, but I'm glad we went.
South Beach
The National.. where machine made pina coladas ring in at 15 bucks each!
2 comments:
We really should have gone to Quebec.... but I'd do it all over again. The polaroids we took look amazing! Sometimes I still taste that anti-freeze....
ha ha... god.. what were those people thinking putting that clear bottle of chemicals right next to the water cooler? You could have gotten so sick! x
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