Canada is nice, but USA is better: we are on a boat

Miami and the Beach

As we headed to the city andthe state we had looked forward to the most. You could easy tell that the trip so far had been exhausting for us and we didn't have the same enthusiasm about Miami we had in the beginning of the trip. We had our trip planned the way so when we arrived to Miami the spring break was at its highest level which we had looked forward a lot towards but now we didn't have the same feeling anymore. Of course is it nice to be in Miami on the spring break, the biggest party week in the whole USA with people from all around the USA just partying all day long for a whole week! The city of Miami as we non-American’s think about it with the long south beach or Miami beach is actually 2 cities, the city of Miami and the city of Miami Beach which we thought was kind of strange since the most of the cities in USA is really big and then someone decided to make this little island just outside Miami to a city of it own. We thought about Kalmar and Öland but our Swedish cities are nothing compared to the American cities in size so it was just a bit weird, but it's nothing you think about when being there, it's not like that you can't go to Miami Beach because it is a new city. Anyways, the main party area during the spring break is at the Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale in the northern parts of Miami and in Key West which is another city in Florida also on an island a pretty long way out in the ocean.

We thought about just find a spot on the South Beach where we saw some partying and just join in and park the car on the Beach pretty much. I mean, it is actually spring break (WIHO)! But we don't think we got the power to party everyday so some day or days we are just going to chill in the car or maybe drive and check something out in the city or just simple hang on the Beach tanning and bathing in the awesome Miami.

So we arrived to the outskirts of Miami a sunny afternoon in the end of April after what felt like a really long drive from New Orleans so today we all agreed on just hang on the Beach, play some "beach games" and then buy food at a supermarket and maybe later tonight go out and find some party :P. So after a couple of hours down on the Beach and some nice food in our stomachs we decided to drive to Fort Lauderdale and party some. We quickly noticed a party going on at the Beach so we drove there and had a really nice time with music, dance and a lot of other people!

The next day we woke up inside the car, surprisingly enough, at the Beach, it was one of those mornings when everything was perfect. If you stepped out of the car you could feel the sand between your toes and smell the salty sea 50 meters away. Which gave such a satisfaction :D I mean, we are in Miami and we can stay here as long as we want (kind of) and do whatever we feel like. But anyways we figured we didn’t want to hang here in Fort Lauderdale during the day so we packed our stuff together and drove back to Miami. We stopped at a nice little restaurant who served some typical Florida food. Well, you can’t say that anything is typical for Miami and Florida because everything here is influenced by South America (Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico etc.) so I guess you can say we had lunch at a Latin place and of course was it really goooood.

When we got close to Miami Farnam told us he recognized this place from somewhere else, me and Hugge kind of thought the same thing. Then it struck us, the city of Miami is very similar to the city of GTA: Vice City which everyone (!) have played. So it wasn’t hard to like find stuff in Miami or at least as hard as in the other cities around USA since we sort of knew this city so to speak.

After the lunch we decided to park the car and then take a walk around the city. After a while we walked into the Miami museum of Science and we thought it looked a bit like Universeum here in Sweden and since we are “naturare” of course we took a tour in there. And it turned out to be really cool, a lot bigger than Universeum but with kind of the same things to do but just much more. It was really nice to look in their universe room where it felt like you actually was on a spaceflight! After the really fun and actually learning time at the museum we felt for some beach and we just walked to it, since the beach always is close here in Miami.

At the evening we went to a concert at a beach (surpriseeee) with like a thousand other people and it was this awesome party all night long! We made friends with three other swedes which we had company with the other day. After the awesome concert we went, with our new friends, to a nightclub and just continued to party all night. But when we decided to go we didn't know where we parked the car so our friends, Margaretha, Kurt and Filippa said that we could stay at their hotelroom for the night. So we stayed at their hotelroom over the night, had some really great breakfast and then we went down to the beach where the concert were and started to look for our car. We couldn't find it anywhere so we went to the policestation and asked them if they had seen our car. The fat officer said that the car was in their possesion since it was parked wrong and if we wanted it back we had to pay 100 dollars. Looking into our wallet we felt bad, because we didn'thave very much money left and we still had thoughts about renting a boat and go all the way to New york. But we had to return the housecar to the rentingstore so we had to pay the 100 dollars. After this we said goodbye to our beloved swedes and took the car to the rentingstore where we returned it, at the same time we asked them if they knew anyone who could rent us a boat. They didn't knew but we decided to go to the harbor and see if we could find someone who could rent us a boat to a fair price.

We asked in the boatstores around there but noone was willing to rent us a boat that we could drive to New York. When we felt like we wouldn't find anything a man suddenly appear. He asked us if we would like to rent a boat and we said yes. But we want to drive it all the way to the big apple, no problem he said, i got contacts everywhere and on top of that io can offer you a really nice price. You know, i got this really big boat, and my brother in New York wants to have it for a few days so if I get 300 dollars you can take it all the way to New York and just drop it off at my brother's house. We of course said yes, we would love to take your boat to your brother.