Vacation 2010 - First cruise - Day 1 Miami

Miami, originally uploaded by pottery-girl.

We managed to get up early to hit some balls at T-to-Green before we headed to the airport. We went to check in and security quite easily in Ottawa and we even had time for lunch at Tim Hortons. We arrived at our gate around 11:30 and still had time to shop around. When it was 15 mins before our departure time to Toronto, we learned that our flight was delayed due to the inbound service. It wasn't really a hugh delay, I think we were delayed for about 15 mins or so. We arrived to Toronto at around 1:15 or so. We had to get our checked in luggage and went through American custom. It didn't take too long for lugguqge and going through custom. However, going through security was quite painful. Not only we had to go through a scanner, the security officers had to take our luggages apart. They checked every single little thing, I was worried that I couldn't put everything back together. The good thing was that security wasn't too busy today as it only took us about 10 minutes to get through even with all the searching. And we still had to wait for next flight for an hour and half. The flight was delayed by a little bit again, but it didn't bother me much as soon as I heard that it's 23 degrees in Miami! Vacation in March is really just around the corner in just 3 hours away!

The first officer announced that we are 25 minutes (40miles) away from South Beach and it will be a short taxi ride to gate. I was getting very excited and I was about to take off my fleece! In the meantime, I will get back to my sim☺

It was not too warm in Miami when we arrived, it was 18 degrees. Our hotel is not too close to downtown Miami, it was $40 cab ride to get there. It's sort of far and there is nothing near by, but just for one night, it was good enough. We went into our room, Egret 417. It's a pretty big room with a king size bed. Since, there isn't anything near by, we decided to have dinner at the hotel's restaurant. I ordered a Quesadilla and Richie ordered a sliders (American kobe beef burger). They were both quite good especially the Kobe beef. They also have wifi at the restaurant, so it was a great choice! The first day of vacation seems to be quite nice, looking forward to see Miami in day light. We will be greeted by the complimentary hotel breakfast.