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On Tuesday we were up at 3:30am for our shuttle transfer to the airport. Check-in was pretty easy, except apparently I have too many names on my passport and the automatic check-in could not process my boarding pass but luckily we could do it through Andrew's.
Had my venti cappuccino from Starbucks, it was so nice, I miss Starbucks back at home. Nearly everywhere you go there is a Starbucks or two, at this one terminal there was 2 Starbucks. So on to the plane for our 4 ½ hour flight to Miami with American Airlines. Whilst you pay for meals and snacks, drinks and inflight movies were free. So the plane had just left the gate and was taxiing to the runway when they announced they were heading back to the gate as someone was ill on the plane. There was a doctor onboard (just like in the movies) who helped until the paramedics arrived. After the man was stabilised (he had a few seizures) he was taken to hospital. We ended up leaving about 1 hour late (thank goodness we do not have any connecting flights during our trip, this is a good reason why).
Miami was muggy and windy when we got here, as soon as we stepped off the plane it was like we were in Darwin, I actually like the muggy weather though. For tea we went to this great American bar and grill near the hotel. The whole atmosphere and everything was awesome. The grilled salmon with Cajun spices was the best I have ever tasted, Andrew had a seafood platter that was huge and he couldn't eat it all. We stocked up on some supplies for our tour tomorrow and yes Andrew got beer, a 4 pack of 473ml's for $2.69.
Wednesday we headed off for our first tour. So 4 hours and travelling over 4 bridges later, we were in Key West. Such a great little town, really caters for the tourists and the streets kind of reminded me of Harndorf or Lobethal during the christmas light period. So after the 4 our bus trip we spent 4 hours exploring the place, even that didn't give us time to see everything all the little side streets with shops and stuff. The main street, Duvall is about 15 blocks long, we also took the walk to see the most Southern point in the USA, it is closer to Cuba than it is to Miami.
We are still getting use to tipping, we have a little cheat sheet we keep with us to check on when we are unsure, hopefully we can get the hang of it though. Anyway hope everyone is well and keep checking out our pics as we put them up.
Jo
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