Whirlwind Tour of South Florida

Hi All -

So this past week, Glenn took me with him on a rather hectic work trip through Southern Florida. It was pretty exhausting, but it was fun getting to see some new places in Florida and getting to spend the time with Glenn.

Wednesday morning, we got up bright and early and drove to West Palm Beach. I brought my laptop and worked in the hotel room all day, while Glenn went to the office there. That night, he and I went to the famous Breakers Resort in Palm Beach for dinner. This is a beautiful resort that has been in Palm Beach since 1896.

Sorry, we're a bit blurry!

The hotel is aptly named because it is right on the breakers.

We had a nice dinner at a restaurant called the Seafood Bar, and sat at the windows overlooking the water.

A bit ominous, wouldn't you say?

After dinner, we stopped at a trendy shopping complex called City Place near our hotel.

My favorite pic of the week I think...

The next day Glenn and I worked until around 2, and then drove to Miami. The drive to Miami was terrifying - we drove for over 2 hours in the most torrential downpour I've ever seen. Most of the way on a 4 or 6 lane highway. I was very frazzled. (Glenn remained his calm and cool self.)

As soon as we checked in, we had to change and get ready for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer kickoff event that was happening in the hotel. It was nice, but probably twice as long as it needed to be. Lots of speeches in the freezing cold air conditioning. I met a lot of nice staff people that work with Glenn.

After the event, we stepped outside of the hotel and Glenn got some shots of downtown Miami.

Fortunately, I had made us late reservations for dinner at the hottest spot in town, a restaurant in Miami Beach called Yardbird. It was rustic, kinda like an old barn on the inside, and we had a good dinner there.

Lots of southern Bourbon.

And a chandelier made out of mason jars.

Then back to the hotel to bed.

It would have been fun to explore Miami a bit more, but we left bright and early the next morning to go back to West Palm Beach, where Glenn and I put in a full day's work at his office. (He found an empty office for me to work in for the day.)

After working all day, we drove to Delray Beach. Delray is a cute little beach town where we decided to spend our one vacation night / morning.

As we walked across this bridge, I looked down and saw a potted orchid that was laying half in the water and half on the rocks under the bridge. Glenn decided to rescue it so he walked down and went over a small fence and scrambled over the rocks to get the poor thing. (We don't know if he jumped or was pushed from the bridge. I suspect foul play.)

At any rate, Glenn named him Horatio (like Horatio Hornblower, since we rescued him from the sea) and we rinsed the saltwater off him and took him home. Now, we just hope he survives.

We spent our final morning at the pool before the next round of storms moved in.

Soon after lunch, it clouded back up and we ended up spending the next 4+ hours driving back home in the pouring rain. Ugh.

Fun little adventure, but I was very glad to be home!

Hope you all are having a great week so far! Later, gators!