Me and Liza Colon-Zayas
Jimmy Smits, Me & David Zayas
JC, Me & Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Me (looking scared), Haizel & Mos Def
May 6, 2006 - The Knife Restaurant in Coconut Grove celebrating our 1 year Anniversary!
Me and my baby!
Me and Eli
Eli and Charly
We headed home after a few drinks to change and head out to La Carreta for some dinner. La Carreta is a Cuban restaurant in Miami. Very inexpensive and very good. Yum!
Saturday, May 6 - "Our Anniversary" we drove down to Isla Morada, it is the 2nd key heading South. They have a Tiki Bar and Hula Dancers. There were no Hula dancers there on this day but we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless. We contemplated the whole water skiing bit but for $80 per ½ hour, well it wasn't worth it. The weather was beautiful!
Once the sun began to wear us out, we headed back North but not before making a stop at Dairy Queen for a Heath Bar Blizzard but also to take a pic of this ginormous Lobster. Need I say more??
Can I just say that once I took this pic, I craved Shrimp...lol. I don't eat Lobster or fish but I love me some Shrimp.....lol.
On our drive back, we decided to pay a visit to Eli's niece Monique and check out her new house. We sat back and relaxed a bit with a cold Presidente Beer....ahhhh! Waited a bit for the sun to go down and then we were off to go home and change for dinner. Charly, Eli's boyfriend, wanted to take us to eat at The Knife. It is an Argentinian Churrascaria located in Coconut Grove.
We had a fabulous time!!!! The food was delicious, then we were off to Fat Tuesday's at Coco walk. After some Piña Coladas and too much Hip Hop music, we departed to our humble abode back in Hialeah.
Sunday, May 7th - I made some breakfast, simple breakfast....Fried eggs, Pan Cubano y Cafe con Leche...que Rico. Eli dropped us off at South Beach for what would be our last day of sun bathing. I called my friend Karol and Janessa to let them know that we would be at the "Usual" spot, on our $10 a day beach chairs...lol. We talked about how much we enjoyed our weekend and about how sad we were to see it end but at least we have Dominican Republic to look forward to. We can't wait for that. Anywho, the girls showed up all hung over from the night before...lol. We took more pics and before we new it, it was 4:30pm. We took our last swim, walked to the showers to wash off the salt and went back to our chairs to dry off. My goodness, feeling the sun warm my back as I lay down was so comforting. I was so at ease, so relaxed.
We decided to have our last dinner at Puerto Sagua, a small family owned Cuban restaurant on Collins Ave. We orderd our dinner and indulged in the buttery garlic bread that they brought out as we waited for our main dishes. I devoured my Bistec Empanizado con Yuca and JC swallowed his Bistec Encebollado.....with a side of maduros, all for $21.00. That was lovely. I have to say, we did very well sticking to our budget for the weekend but I still can't get over the fact that we paid $31.00 for breakfast for the both of us, mind you there were no pancakes included... After dinner, we did some window shopping as we waited for Eli and Charly to pick us up. I stepped into Urban Outfitters and bought a cute shirt that I normally wouldn't wear but since I lost some poundage I figured why not. It fit well and looked cute. Eli and Charly showed up at about 7pm and we headed to Monty's by the water at Coconut Grove. That was fun, they had a live Reggae Band and the Super Nachos were to die for. We went home after the band finished and just vegged out as Charly showed us some funny cartoons from Argentina.
Note: I am trying to upload some more photos but I am having some problems....will post more pics soon.
Monday, May 8th - Our last day to enjoy Miami. Eli and Charly had to work so we decided we would take it upon ourselves to experience Dade County's Public Transportation System. We headed for some breakfast downstairs at the Cafeteria. Again, two orders of two eggs, french fries, pan Cubano, two Ham croquettes, bacon, 2 cafe con leches and extra order of pan cubano for a whopping $7.35. Incredible.....and delicious!!!! We walked about 3 blocks to the nearest bus stop and waited for about ½ an hour. We decided we would go to the mall. When the bus arrived, we paid our fair and asked the bus driver to inform us when we got to our stop. The ride was about 15 minutes, not bad. But now it might have been much more comfortable if the bus had an AC system. Ok, so beggers can't be choosers, oh well. "Westland Mall, Next stop!", we got up, JC quicker than I since I decided to wear a skirt, my thighs were stuck to the leather seats. Off we proceeded to the mall. Ahhhhhh, AC, now thats more like it. We window shopped some more, had a quick lunch and walked 4 more blocks to the nearest bakery. After rating the pastries from behind the glass, I decided I did not want to get the pastries from there because it didn't look like the ones from the other bakery. I know, I know..I am picky but what can I say. Once it reached 4pm we walked back to the bus stop and waited for our bus back home. The sun can be so draining, I was exhausted but we didn't have time for a nap, we had to be at the airport by 7pm, enough time to finish packing, make whoopie...shhh and shower and dress. Ely got home by 6:30 and our journey to the airport began. We were running a bit late so I started to regret not buying those pastries since now we wouldn't have time to stop at the other bakery. There was no traffic, thank goodness and we made it back to Ft.Lauderdale airport by 7:20pm, check in was a breeze. Our flight began to board at 8:00pm. We took off at 9:00pm and arrived at JFK at 12am.
Well, thats pretty much all of it. The pics speak for themselves but I will have to post the remaining next time. Mother's day is coming up so I am sure I will have alot to say then but until next time, enjoy my life.
Caio!
