As you can see Adri was really excited about seeing the airplanes. I couldn't get her to sit down before the flight, she just wanted to stand at the window. When we got on the plane she was beat, and our flight was delayed. She started to fall asleep and then I told her that we were going to take off soon. She quickly jumped up and starred out the window until we were in the air.
Saturday morning we arrived in Miami and went to Mango Festival. I'll have a separate post just for that. Afterwards we went to Natalie's cousin's birthday party up in Broward County. That night was a precursor for the entire week. Driving up there the streets were already flooding and there no end in sight for the rain. While eating dinner lightning hit so close in the parking lot it made me jump out of my seat.
The next morning we drove up to Coral Springs to go to church. Afterwards we stopped by the house to check on things so I could see how much work I had cut out for me that week. I ended up going back a couple times throughout the week to work on things. For the most part we just sat around and hung out with family. One day we went over to Tia Fior's and I climbed up her mango tree in the rain and picked all the mangoes. They were really good mangoes, I think Kents. On Tuesday we had dinner with some friends in Coral Springs and I got together with a couple of my coworkers during the week for lunch and dinner. Wednesday we went out with our friends Tim and Riki and Thursday we were suppose to go to Key Largo but I decided to change that for Friday due to the fact that the rain still hadn't let up.
Thursday morning after dropping Natalie off at her aunt's apartment I saw someone smash in a car window and run away with the purse, at 9AM, obviously in broad daylight. I flipped a u-turn and was going to chase her but I was fumbling with my phone. She gave me the "Oh crap, I'm busted" looked before taking off. I just memorized the license plate and called 911. The lady that had her car broken out came outside screaming that everything was in her purse. Makes it hard to feel sorry for her though when she's stupid enough to leave her purse in her car in that neighborhood.
Friday we finally made it down to the keys. First we went down to Robbie's in Islamorada and fed the tarpon. I heard that if you don't let go of the fish the tarpon will latch onto your arm. I thought I was going to try until I saw how big those things were. I couldn't help but jump back and drop the fish every time the tarpon went for one.
After an hour or so at Robbie's we found some Cuban food and then went to a beach our friends told us about (Anne's Beach) which happened to be just a couple hundred yards from the Cuban restaurant. This beach had a sandbar that went close to a half mile out. I walked so far out that when I turned around I couldn't even see Adri playing on the beach. When Natalie and I came back and Adri saw us she put her arms behind her back, bent over, and started running (her happy dance). I really need to get a video of her doing this some day.
We spent that night hanging out with family again before heading back to SoCal for our family reunion. I'll have to get pictures so I can make a post about that. Had a lot of fun, ended up staying late Sunday to see family again, then got back early Monday morning just in time to get an hour of sleep before work. Needless to say it took me 5 days to recover from everything.
At LAX
The mangoes I got out of Tia Fior's tree.
The tostones at the Cuban restaurant were huge.
At Anne's beach. We forgot to bring a swimsuit for Adri so she same in her chonies.
Leaving Miami.
I thought this was pretty cool. We were flying over New Mexico and there was a forest below. Not far away was the desert. You can see where the air lifts up and cools down in the mountains. All the rain over the forest and not a cloud over the sky in the desert.
Flying over White Sands New Mexico.
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