Landed for the second leg of the world tour in Miami (primarily for the NFL Pro Bowl) not knowing how long I was going to be travelling for due to my Nan's illness and so intended to make the most of it, starting with meeting up with Jenny who we had met on the beach during the summer when I was last in Miami with the boys. She had invited me to join her and her friends at a club somewhere in town, exciting you would think, unfortunately as is my want I went a little too heavy the night before with some friends in London and therefore really just wanted to go to bed. But cant really turn down an invite so turned up at the club having spoken to her on the phone. Now get ready for this…I was stood up! For the first time in my life. I had waited two-and-a-half hours. What a b****!

Woke up the next day slightly refreshed and decided to do some retail therapy at Aventura Mall. On my way round I saw a stand advertising the 'All Cookie Diet' which was apparently 'Guaranteed to lose weight'…yeah right…only in the States! On a similar theme I finally went to the Cheesecake Factory and had a slice of the chocolate chip cookie dough which was quite frankly divine but one slice was more than enough. In the evening I met Cori who had worked behind the bar in the hotel in the summer. We went to her favourite Italian for some fantastic homemade pasta and then headed to The Clevelander on Ocean Drive to meet her friends for drinks. Well they were all really fun and there was a mini treasure chest full of beers which was great (basically I want one). Then for old times sake we decided to head back to the Chesterfield Hotel bar at around 3am, not at all anticipating what was to come.

When we sat at the bar, feeling more than slightly tipsy I have to say, there were only two couples there who seemed to know each other. Turned out they were all from Penn State university and were on vacation, the two girls were completely hammered, loud and not shy about their intentions lets just say. We chatted and they're boyfriends (one boyfriend and one fiancé to be more accurate) bought us rounds of shots and then one of the girls wanted to do 'nipple shots'. Now despite being a man of the world even I couldn't imagine what this entailed, especially as we were just two strangers and they were in couples. Well they invited us back to their room and got drinks sent up. Obviously I was keen and intrigued to see what was going to go down (literally perhaps!) and after some persuasion Cori decided to go with the flow and come up too. Well what happened in the room was surreal but can't be put on here as undoubtedly it would be censored so just ask next time you see me.

Anyway after about one hours sleep I had to check out of the hostel but Vicky wasn't coming down from the University of Florida until late in the afternoon and I needed to sleep so I decided to head down to the beach and nap there. Vicky picked me up and we headed to Landshark Stadium for the Pro Bowl, which was particularly exciting as it is the home of the team I support the Miami Dolphins. The atmosphere was great (particularly the fighter jet flyover during the national anthem which I wasn't expecting and nearly gave me a second minor heart attack) and there was a good number of people there. It was a high scoring game with the best players of the season showing some good skills, which is what you want at one of these occasions. We had a long drive back up through Florida to Gainesville not getting back until about 5am, and we were both shattered but we had a good time in the car and got to know each other much better.