Miami, baby!

In July, Casey and I and my cousin, Summer and her husband, Kam, flew to Florida for an ADULT vacation!! (Every parent needs one of those once in a while, right;))

We flew into Fort Lauderdale...

and checked into our Miami hotel, Circa 39, right across from Miami beach. Circa 39 was an Art Deco building turned boutique hotel that was built in...1939. It was a fun change of pace from the big hotels we usually stay in. Thanks for the reccomendation, hotels.com:)

We spent the next couple of days eating...

and beaching...

Then, on the third day, we drove down south through the glades, where we went on an airboat tour and watched a 250lb. man "wrestle" a 75lb alligator, and pulled into Key Largo...

Where we, again, ate...

and stayed up WAY too late holding our sides from laughter.

The next day we headed out to do some snorkeling, which is as deep as I'll EVER get in the ocean. We were lucky enough to get to see a couple of nurse sharks and unlucky enough to get stung by several little jellyfish. One amazing thing about Florida is the water temperature. It could not have been more perfect.

When we got back from the dive, we packed up our stuff, again, and drove further south, into Key West...my favorite stop. Our hotel was just a collection of little white cottages across the street from Ernest Hemingway's home, so cute.

In Key West, we ate dinner and listened to live music at a couple of little bars.

 And on day two in Key West, we rented Cruisers and rode around the entire island...mostly in the rain!

Of course we stopped to eat!

And had the best key lime pie at an outdoor Cuban restarant, that night, before wasting the night away singing along at a dueling piano bar. My favorite one was 'Pour Some Sugar on Me', by my request;)...

We had the best time! And don't feel too bad for my kids that were left behind. When we got home, my 5 year-old asked when we were leaving again so the babysitters could come back.