Miami - - South Beach - October 26, 2013

The day started with a beautiful walk along the beach, stopped for brekky on Ocean Blvd, you could get a full breakfast for $5.95.  OJ was $4.  And most people were having a mimosa, daiquiri or beer with their breakfast.  The drinks were cheaper than the OJ.  LOL  Then we headed back along the beach.  Still very windy and lots of big waves, but the crowds were back on the beach.  A number without their tops much to Jim's pleasure.

In the afternoon we met up with Ed and Sharon and headed to Bayside for a boat trip around the Bay.  Bayside is a lovely little market and shopping area surrounding the main marina.

Lots of bars to quench your thirst while you were shopping.

An open air bandstand, luckily our boat came before Jim could get up there dancing. 

Miami is a major port with lots of cruise ships, pleasure craft and containers ships.

I am pretty sure the canon was in front of a house that Shaquille owned.

This is the house of the owner of the pharmaceutical company that marketed Viagara.  His place is worth more than $50M.  He put in 38 egyptian palm trees at a cost of $10K each. 

 The jumping bunny below was given to Elizabeth Taylor by Michael Jackson to commemorate how she hopped around from marriage to marriage.  lol

I am pretty sure this house has the best air conditioning on the island.  The owner doesn't like to be hot so he even air conditioned his backyard.  It is never more than 65 degrees F.  Crazy money, crazy people.








Back to the hotel to get ready for the Planet dinner at the SLS Hotel South Beach.  Julia makes a perfect French Martini, should be a warning not to drink more than 1.  We ate at the Sushi Restaurant Katsuya, not being a big sushi fan I was very impressed.  The raw tuna was great, the calamari almost ended up in my napkin, but I toughed it out and swallowed it.  Very glad I switched to red wine after my one glass of sushi which was amazing.  Great night thanks to Planet for putting it on.