Say Hello to my Little Friend

The nights sleep wasn't the most comfortable but it was certainly the cheapest to date.   After a breakfast of cereal, peanut butter and Sam going to the gym to throw some tin about we decided the day should be spent looking at fancy houses in the harbour and then sitting on the beach.

The harbour tour left from the port in the city so we piled into the Yukon and off we went.  On the way there we encountered the street flooding caused by the "ice caps" again, however I think it was more to do with the nearby hurricane Sandy. It doesn't bode well for this place though when the ice caps eventually disappear.

The tour was for 90 minutes and went around the entire harbour looking at all the man made islands with all their massive houses.

The  houses were amazing, the first island we came across was Fisher Island.  It was built, just like most of the islands in the harbour, by Carl Fisher this earned him about $100m which was a lot of money back in the 1920's.  Unfortunately he invested all his money in the stock market so when it crashed in 1929 he lost every penny.  Some of the houses we saw once belonged to Madonna, Sly Stallone, P Diddy (I think this was the biggest one) and the house used in Scarface.

The houses all looked great (and super expensive) with pools etc out front, but you could never use them for what they are intended as you have absolutely zero privacy. After the boat tour we had some lunch at the marina, we also had to pay a visit to Victoria Secret where Amy got some new Bikini bottoms so that we could hit the beach.

The beach was white sand and the water was almost as warm as a bath, the other good thing was that it was pretty much devoid of people as the only way you could get to it was via the apartment complexes.  We had bought some cigars in Savannah but had not had a chance to smoke them, we were determined to do it today though, so when we got back to the apartment we sparked them up.

Tonight we were going to have the second home cooked meal of the trip so supermarket trip was needed, and Sam cooked a rather tasty seafood risotto.  After a small debate of whether we should stay in Miami for another night or travel on it was decided to continue on with our journey, so tomorrow is the everglades and up to Tampa.

Cigar of the Day - Drew Estate Java - Rich chocolate and coffee smells before lighting. Nice sweet taste when inserted in mouth. Flavours become more smokey when open flame applied to end, some chocolate aroma remained. Emitted smoke for the next 45 minutes, some of which ended up in my lungs causing mild coughing.