We arrived at the airport in Ft. Lauderdale at 5 am, grabbed a cab for our hotel, hoping they'd let us check in VERY early (check in was advertised as 4 pm). They let us in right away - God bless them. We went to the room and slept until about 10:30 then up, dressed in shorts and out to scope the neighborhood for lunch and shopping for essentials for our room.
I'd checked the net before we left for nearby restaurants and reviews. We found the one I'd wanted to try but they weren't open yet. Walmart was across the street so we headed there to buy a couple beer and a lime, found a restaurant that WAS open and had a disappointing lunch. We wandered back to the hotel and after sharing a beer while we changed, we headed for the pool and lounged there for the afternoon. For dinner, we went back to the restaurant we'd wanted to try - they opened about 15 minutes after we got there in the morning and dinner was fantastic - lunch would have been too - and we had a doggie bag to take back with us that had enough food for lunch yesterday. We didn't do anything afterward - watched tv - wished later we'd thought of going down to the hot tub, but we didn't. I don't know what else we'd have done anyway - we rarely go out to pubs any more. Yesterday, we got up and went to the beach for the morning while it was quiet - back to the room for leftovers and a beer - checked out, then back to the pool for some sun. I finished an entire book and started into another in the time we were away. I'm amazed how much colour I picked up in just a couple days. We had dinner at the pool bar and cabbed it back to the airport.
We landed around 12:30 am, stopped to get a tea/coffee and gas up, got lost finding the bridge to cross back to Canada because the GPS took us to the wrong one, but followed our common sense instead to the right place. We were the only people crossing the border. The customs official was very suspicious about our very short getaway - we just handed him our itinerary (our reservation print outs) - which had the price we paid for the flight and all on them to back up our "story". I'm sure he thought we were insane anyway but let us go. We finally arrived home at about 3. Dex was very happy. Cara was sick. Macy didn't even bother to get up.
And here we are. There's lots of cold and even snow to make up for what we missed. Or didn't miss at all.
It was like having a nice weekend away in the middle of the week.
I way prefer flying out of Niagara Falls to Detroit. Half the drive. Nice little airport. Rocking chairs in the lounge!!! Normally priced drinks and munchies. 1 gate. Cheap parking. No lineups to cross the border (at least late at night).
Slept in this morning until Macy started gnawing on my chin, letting me know she wanted her breaky. Guess who's pretty sure that, 15 years from now, let's say I'm living alone and die of a broken heart, Macy won't go hungry for a while and my face will be the first thing on the menu.
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WOW! What a deal the hotel let you check in so early. Thank goodness they had vacancies. That's sweet. [Let me know the name of the hotel - we would definitely patronize them. They sound great].
All in all a pretty great trip. I am happy for you. I hope Cara feels better soon and it isn't too cold for you. Spring is just around the corner. [yeah, right.]
Glad you are home safe.
Fort Lauderdale is hopping when the colleges go on spring break. I think it is kinda slow the rest of the time. I never hear much about it. Sounds like you had a good time though.
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