Live from Miami

Made it to Miami no problems and bought my new laptop on Wednesday, it’s a Toshiba 1.73 Centrino with 1meg RAM and 100 Gig HDD. Got a good deal on it but there seems to be a problem with the battery not charging up so we’ll be taking it back to the shop today.

Miami, is not really how I expected it. It has a lot more Latin influence than I thought, with Spanish seemingly spoken moreso than English. Lots of coconut palms everywhere make it feel very much like Cancun, and the weather is not much different, although it is a little cooler today.

The flight was quick and uneventful, only an hour and a half from Cancun. Stupidly, I hadnt taken note of the address where I was staying as I was being picked up from the aiport. Had a few questions at immigration because of that, but after a call to Bob’s cellphone all was sorted out.

Traffic was really heavy so it took us a couple of hours to drive the 40 miles or so from the airport. Bob, his wife Tracie and I went out to a restaurant called gator Joes for a nice dinner and a few drinks. Later we went out to a few more bars, Hooligans was the only name I remember. I was pleased to find they had Stella (my favourite beer) on draft there. Also had a couple of shots (one was Patron the other a Jaegar Bomb), which were more like tumblers full.

The next day was shopping, as well as the laptop I also bought a new camera, a 250 Gig external hard drive, and a cooling platform with extra fans for the laptop, hopefully this one will last me longer than the last.

Later that night we went out again back to Hooligans, with Bob and his friend Mike who happens to play for the Miami Dolphins. Needless to say he got quite a lot of attention with people wanting their photo taken with him. More gigantic shots and a few more bars, we got home quite late.

Thursday was a quiet day, just lounging around the house and a huge Chinese takeaway in the evening. But I did put my flight back for a couple of days, as I need to sort out this laptop battery problem and also need to buy a portable DVD player and presents for Jannet and Dani.