Our intrepid travelers, having gone to bed at 7 (MT) and woken at 5 (MT), whirled away the morning on exercise bikes and eating local-bakery empanadas and guava pastry. With peaches brought from home.
That is a feast, no doubt, and we finally understand why people like empanadas so much.
After this they waited with baited breath for their tour bus to come (since the tour never returned my calls to confirm), and come it did, whisking our travelers away west to the Florida Everglades!
The Everglades is also called River of Grass since, unlike a marsh or swamp, there is a very slow current, and it boasts many types of plants and wildlife, including crocodiles, alligators (this is Wesley),
various birds like black vultures,
insects like the Halloween dragonflies (maybe) that were everywhere, lots and lots of yellow and red lilies, and more stuff I'm sure, that we all saw from our airboat.
After the boat tour was a short alligator show, featuring 4 full grown alligators—that could slow down their heartbeats to one per minute in order to hide under the water in bad weather, or go 8–12 months without food—then all tourists had the option to eat gator!! How callous. Our kind-hearted adventurers had eaten gator the day before so instead they tried....
That's right. Frog legs. Fast food style. Hmmmmmmm.
A quiet and contemplative (aka hot) group rode back to downtown Miami. Upon arrival, bidding farewell to the guides, our duo helped another duo, ladies from Kuwait here for medical reasons (can be seen behind Myra in the earlier shot), find their way to the Biscayne Bay sightseeing cruise. This is another item included with the Miami City Go card. The 90 min ride was actually 60 min with loading and unloading time, and they really just wanted everyone to buy drinks and leave tips, but we did enjoy the cool[er] sea breeze and got to see the Miami skyline,
as well as many homes or previous homes of the rich and famous, like Antonio Banderas.
Alighting from their cruise before a cruise, the sisters next made the long 22 min by foot humid journey to the Perez art museum.
Here, Mia would like to remind her future self that she doesn't like contemporary art and don't bother visiting another c art museum ever again.
That said there was at least one cool display
A return to the hotel, swimming, and showers were in order to return the duo to their solid state, upon which they ate Mexican food (burrito and chili rellenos and lots of salsa fresca, tomatillo, and pico di gallo) yum. Then they went walking in Bayside Marketplace, catching magicarp, watching live music, lamenting they were too full from that excellent dinner to eat another smoothie.
What did these experienced travelers do next?
Why, the smartest thing they could do—they went back to the hotel to go to bed. And write this blog.
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Is Wesley as big as he looks?
ReplyDeleteHis head is surely no bigger than Bubbles.
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