Friday, September 9, 2016

Dolphins, seals, and orcas, oh my!

After eating more empanadas and flakey pastry (Myra thinks tomorrow we should try something new, Mia thinks empanadas are yummy and cheap), we called to us another Uber car and we're off to the Seaquatium! Note: we both agree Uber is awesome. The Seaquarium was also fairly awesome - the exhibits were kind of tired and sad, but the shows were lots of fun! We saw a dolphin show, 


A seal show,



And an Orca show!




(Yes, audience members in all of here shows did get wet, but because we wanted shade more than water, we were not amung them)

Once we had our fill of sea life, we called unto us another Uber driver and returned to Bayside to hop onto the Hop-on-Hop-off bus to go to the Vizcaya Museum. 



Vizcaya was built as the winter residence for Chicogo businessman James Deering and he must have been very very rich because his house, and extensive gardens, were amazing. No pictures were allowed inside, but when has that ever stopped anyone? Here is the library, with its door that was built to look like a continuation of the bookshelf when it was closed:



And then a shot of the organ, whose doors were decorated with some antique painting that the owner had cut in half for the doors:



While we were up in one of the towers a lady fell down the stairs and we helped her up and left to go find help, but the other girl who came to help found someone sooner, so we kind of just wandered around feeling awkward until we heard two guards were dispatched to assist her. So then we left. We hope she did hurt herself!

Outside was almost as stunning as the indoors. First for mom:


The indoor/outdoor swimming pool. Pretty snazzy right? Then there was the ocean and gardens




And though we had though to spend another hour here, we discovered that the prospect of more time in the sun was worse than the prospect of not seeing a few gardens. So we left. 

We continued the HOHO tour through the rest of the city and then returned to our starting point, from which we immediately sought food. We found a kind of ritzy looking Peruvian place from which Mia was greatly looking forward to trying their chicken dishes, only to be told, after we had been seated and given water and snack things, that they were all out of chicken dishes. Mia is now on the verge of leaving them less than stellar review on Yelp, even though the food was quite tasty (though expensive, as we somehow paid $7 for a potato in sauce for an appetizer). 

We walked through Bayside for the umpteenth time and then retired much satisfied. 


2 comments:

  1. Looks like fun! I like your reports! I hope you can keep 'em up while on the cruise....although that is harder!

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  2. What a gorgeous pool! When you said it was for me, I thought you meant you'd be bringing it home!

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