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For the past 2 days we have just been doing pretty much whatever. We wondered around the shops of Lincoln Road and picked up a new pair of sandals as well as some free ghiradeli chocolate samples. If you come to South Beach and are in the area, just walk in the door and they will offer you a sample. We also had dinner at Outback on Washington. We walked the streets with everyone else. It was only 9pm however all the ‘special’ people were out and about cubbin and working to impress. We headed back to our hotel and went to bed at a decent hour. Still in the most uncomfortable bed ever. Saturday we work up and ate breakfast at McDonalds. We then changed into our bathing suits and headed for the beach. We were at the beach from about noon to 3pm. At that point we could feel we were being baked. The beach really started to get crowded around 2pm, that must be the time to go. Right now we are just cooling down and watching one of the only 3 channels that works. For whatever reason our hotel doesn’t care to fix the satellite TV. They don’t seem to care about much at all. Don’t ever stay at the Greenview Hotel. The elevator is broken, the water feature in the front is broken, the satellite is broken, the lamp was broken, even the door lock doesn’t lock unless we push on it. The hallway is stinky and the clock is crocked and broken. There is a light out, the hall door is broken and swings freely putting a nice hold in the wall. Mandy and I took the back exit from the hotel — The emergency exit way and found it was covered in moss from the a/c units draining freely. Mandy slipped and nailed her head on one of the 1st floor a/c units. This is in addition to the front desk not giving a crap about their customers. I asked for extra towels. They said ‘well how many do you have now?’ I told them we had two. They then told me that is all you are allowed to have. Oh, notice the pictures of the compimentary breakfast. Yes those 3 items, thats is. Well the muffins were moldy. YUM! No juice, nothing but coffee to drink. What a freaking waste. The only good thing I can say is that this was the cheapest hotel except for another one which got half as good of a rating at tripadvisor.com

After walking over half a mile to McDonalds and then filling our guts with their guts, we started walking south on Alton Road we decided to turn East. Interestingly enough we saw buildings which looked like shops. We found Burger King! Mandy was angry and hit me several times as I laughed.  Total walking distance 1.9 miles there, and another 2 miles back. Our feet hurt. We are now resting in our hotel room watching Deep Impact on TNT.

Today we slept in way late today. Completely missed the complimentary breakfast and had very lucid dreams. I drempt i lost a third of my bottom teeth and was trying to shove them back in. GROSS! So our first stop was right back at McDonalds. We stuck to the dollar menu this time and got our money’s worth with our 4 refills of the small sprite. After that we headed back to our hotel and changed into our bathing suits. We spent about 3 hours on the beach today mostly just floating around in the water or tanning a little on the hot sand. It was really really crowded. A few scary looking old men hanging around our area drinking and yelling with their families/friends. We are back at our hotel right now and getting ready to go find some food. Mandy wanted Burger King but the two that used to be nearby are now abandoned buildings. Taco Bell is also abandoned in South Beach. Its really sad but for cheap fast food your choices seem to be Subway or McDonalds. We’ll keep you posted -Jason and Mandy

Just for christopher I am updating my blog. mandy and I just work up and are going to crawl to the nearest place with food. Ok, the cheapest place with food — even if it is a mile away Now i’m going to go find the camera and wire to show you the couple pictures i took on our way to miami

We are headed for another amazing vacation to South Beach Miami and a Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival.

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Here is the itinerary as we know it thus far:

Weds May 6 2009
Depart 6:00am SLC to DFW to MIA
Check into Greenview Hotel (South Beach Miami)

Sunday May 10 2009
Check out Greenview Hotel
Take Cab to Port of Miami
Board Carnival Valor for 7 day Western Caribbean Cruise

Sunday May 17 2009
Debark Cruise
Take Cab to South Beach
Check in South Beach Plaza Hotel

Wednesday May 20 2009
Check out South Beach Plaza Hotel
Take Cab to MIA
Depart MIA to DFW to SLC 10:10am

Special Thanks to The Christopher Lady for transportation to and from SLC