Miami Beach -South Beach

We have about 36 hours in South Beach before we catch our Caribbean cruise for vacation. We left Las Vegas yesterday and now Bruce can start relaxing since his convention is over. We are in the midsts of South Beach, Florida now - the high today of 83, the low of 73. I can handle that!

After another day of travel, we headed out last night for dinner at Lincoln Road Mall

which is about 10 blocks long. (no cars on this road). There are plenty of shops, restaurants, art galleries, bars, clubs and retail chains such as Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, etc. You get the picture, most anything you'd figure in South Beach. I even found a third Serendipity.

There were lots of Italian restaurants so we stopped for some pasta and salad.

Italian seems to always taste good after a day of travel. Dessert was gelato which really hit the spot and plenty to choose from.

This morning we couldn't wait to get up and head back out to eat at a cute little French bistro for breakfast.

Each meal is accompanied with crusty, country French bread with butter and marmalade.

We didn't eat the bread because we both couldn't resist a french pastry that tasted just as we imagined, sweet, buttery and melt-in-your mouth perfect.

After that we walked off our breakfast admiring all the buildings in the Art Deco area of South Beach.

The Art Deco district is a 1 square mile area of about 800 buildings.

The colors of the building are gorgeous.

Some of the buildings have old cars to match. This is how they advertise their valet parking.

Then we headed down to the South Point Park to check out that area.

I like the lifeguard towers.

Wherever you go here, there are lots of walking paths

and of course the beach is where a lot of people jog.

My next post will be about jogging on the beach…and it's a good one, so stay tuned.

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