Thursday, May 22, 2014

2012: Fire Alarm

While Our home town is measuring snow in feet, temperatures are in the low 70's today in Ft Lauderdale.

Our hotel in Boca Raton might have been the best. Our first group of friends we were traveling with went to Cape Canaveral and stayed in a creepy hotel out of a 60's horror movie, but they made the best of it by watching Star Trek on their laptop. Our second group of friends stayed at the Swan at Disney but arrived late and their reserved room was gone. They were given a room that didn't fit their family. After settling in, the fire alarm went off at midnight and they had to evacuate. The next morning they had to fight for refunds at Swan and for a better room. Considering the experiences of our travel mates, we did OK.

Yesterday we needed some groceries so I pulled into a store named "The bazaar" near Boca Raton. We walked in and my daughter immediately said "this place smells like a combination of **** and cinnamon". It was some kind of ethnic store with raw meet laying out. It was scary so we immediately left.

Today we toured the Ft Lauderdale area before checking into the hotel - a large room with two bedrooms, living room, and kitchen!

Ft Lauderdale is like on a different planet. It is so very different from anything I am used to in the north. It is completely beach focused - from people riding bicycles with surf boards strapped to their back, expensive restaurants with patrons in their beach attire, yachts, ferrari's, porches, and lines of beach front condos towering into the sky and stretching down the beach mile after mile.

The plan for tomorrow is do do absolutely nothing. It sounds like a perfect plan, what could go wrong?

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