Well the last 8 days of our trip were pretty memorable, too. The hubby got food poisoning, my ankle was still sore, and our friend who was going to take us to the mainland couldn't get off of work, so we stuck close to home. My son got his stitches removed by Dr. Allison, and all 3 kids managed not to get hurt for the rest of the trip, so that was good!

I spent some good quality time with the kids as their dad spent 3 days inside. We ate at Celi's and walked the beach one night, checked out lots of souvenir shops and caught various creatures including hermit crabs, land crabs, sea crabs, geckos and even an iguana (with the help of some construction workers from next door). We spent one afternoon at Pelican Reef drinking Fanta, watching the guys trim the trees and playing in the pool.

We met tacogirl at Pedro's for bowling, but the wii was taken over by kids playing Guitar Hero, so we didn't bowl. Watching the faces of the male bar patrons while those teenage girls rocked out the guitar was entertaining enough, though!

We had lunch at El Patio and Caramba when the hubby was feeling better. We got a babysitter and had a nice birthday dinner for him at Sunset Grill for our last night. The next morning, we got some fry jacks from the take-out place across the street from the airport before we boarded the plane. There were no near-misses of dogs or bicyclists on the runway, so it was a calm flight over. The only complaint we had was that it took FOREVER to get the luggage in Miami. Otherwise, we were pleasantly surprised by our first trip through MIA. Looking forward to our next trip...

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