Mom and Ken picked us up from the Miami airport
and we went out to dinner at the House of Siam

Mom lives in Delray near Boca Raton

We haven't seen each other in a little over a year

Peanut Chicken

Palm tree

Lunch with Aunt Maggie at the Green Owl

Aunt Maggie drives a cool car

Mom likes her Kia Sportage

It has been a long time since I have seen Aunt Maggie

Kimmy getting ready to go on an Intercoastal Yacht Cruise

The yacht was really nice

Kimmy by some pretty purple flowers

Getting on the Lady Atlantic

It was 10,000 degrees on the top deck

The first draw bridge went up and the tour started

This was the only cruise part of this vacation

We past many beautiful houses

We went through three draw bridges

The hot tub heats the pool

This house was my favorite

Aunt Maggie waving from her condo on the intercoastal

Time for shots!

We saw lots of lizards

The yacht cruise was really good and was about two hours long

We walked down the street to do a little shopping

Hanging out behind my Mom's condo

My Mom lives about three miles from the beach

We went to Two Georges for dinner

Kimmy, Mike, Aunt Maggie, Uncle Joe, Mom and Ken

Mike buying a t-shirt

On Wednesday we went to Pollo Tropical for lunch

We had chicken, plantains, beans, rice and tomatoes

Kimmy liked it

ahhhhhhhh! The vacation begins.

Our room with a king sized bed

The pool behind the hotel

The hotel was right on the beach

It was 90 degrees every day

We brought some floats from Big Lots

The beach was beautiful

Ready to go floating

The water was nice and warm

We would swim out ...

and float back to shore

Floating in the ocean is a great way to spend a vacation

Kimmy enjoyed it too

South Beach

Kimmy knows what's up

The Shelborne

We stayed here from Wednesday to Saturday morning

We stayed at The Catalina last time we were in Miami

Alvin's Island was a good souvenir store

We had Hiro's Sushi our first night

It wasn't that great but not too expensive

Cinco de Mayo party in the street

We had DJs and loud music

There were a lot of people partying

Kimmy and Mike partying on Cinco de Mayo

Mike tries a ipad in an Apple Store

Kimmy hanging out in Lincoln Road mall

More Cinco de Mayo

There was dancing in the streets

Giant slices of pizza for lunch on Thursday

Wings wasn't open

Pirate loot

This was our secret door to the hotel from the beach

The pool

They wouldn't let me jump off the diving board

Our entrance to the beach

Tacos were $7.50 on the beach

Hot sand

South Beach is huge

And has lots of people on it

Many women go topless and wear thongs

Kimmy getting ready to go floating

Kimmy checking out her Droid

Mike got a lot of sun

We used the floats as chairs too

Suntan lotion made the ink on Kimmy's float came off and
got all over her back. She was mad and smurfed out.

Mike secretly thought it was funny

We fed the seagulls some Pringles

Kimmy packing up

Behind the hotel near the pool

We saw a vacation at the Loews as a price on The Price Is Right

Kimmy by a palm tree

This path separated the hotels from the beach

We rented a Lamborghini convertible

Ocean Drive is the place to be in South Beach

Johnny Rockets is in the center of the action

Across the street they have volley ball coarts

We walked around for a while

Thursday night we ate at a Mexican restaunant

Alvin's Island was on a busy corner

Kimmy bought some souvenirs

The slice were huge and delicious

The pizza was very good. We ate here a few times.

Our last day at the beach

More floating

At the end of the day I gave the float
to some college guys from Chicago

Beautiful water

We missed the boat again!

South Beach is awesome!

Our last look at the beach

One more look before dinner

Walking around Collins Avenue

We ate at Pasha's

Steak kabobs

Our last night in South Beach

We left the Shelborne at 4:30 am to catch
the plane at 6 am on Saturday morning

T-shirt, some magnets, a sea shell, orange trees and new luggage