Our winter getaway to Florida
Late February & Early March, 2009
| We started out visiting our nephew Jamie and his wife Denise in Pembroke Pines.
They have a pool, a kayak, and a Hobie Cat, and their back yard is on a lake. What a life! Their neighbors Lon and Trish and their daughters Haley and Sarah came over for a while on Sunday. | |||||
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| On Friday and Saturday the wind was too calm to go out in the Hobie Cat.
Then on Sunday it was blowing over 30mph, so only the truly experienced, like 10 year old Haley, were permitted. | |||||
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| We went to a Red Sox exhibition game at the Orioles's
Spring Training stadium in Fort Lauderdale. Most of the big name players were playing in the WBC or stayed back in Fort Myers, but we did get to see Jacoby Ellsbury steal a base. | |||||
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| After the game we went down to Miami Beach for a few days. | |||||
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| These pictures were taken at the Holocaust memorial. | |||||
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| Lincoln Road | |||||
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| Scenes and architecture mostly along Ocean Avenue. | |||||
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| Lincoln Road at night, including dinner at TiramesU. | The Vizcaya museum and gardens | ||||
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| The Coral Gables Venetian Pool (Closed for renovation!). | |||||
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| Back to Miami Beach - Espanola Way. | |||||
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| More Lincoln Road | The Delano. | ||||
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| More Lincoln Road, including dinner at Books & Books | |||||
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| Morada Bay Beach Cafe | |||||
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| Crane Point Nature Center | |||||
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| The Key Largo Conch House | Breakfast along Ocean Avenue | The Wolfsonian - The Harry Clarke Geneva Window | |||
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| Lunch along Ocean Avenue | Back to Jamie & Denise's - Lon & Trish came over for dinner. Denise's mom Ann was also visiting along with her cousin Sheila and her husband Dennis. This first one is the two Denises in Black & White! | ||||
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