Runner Up - South Florida Daily Blog

305 made it to the Runner's Up category for the week of August 10th in Rick's South Florida Daily Blog! Glad you liked the story Rick, and hopefully, we'll be in the top spot some day :) Here's a blurb from the site:

Runners Ups: I love reading posts where you know the blogger was saying to themselves, "I can't wait to get home to blog this." I got that feeling with 305's well-photographed post called Park Adventures in South Florida where she documented a trip to John D. MacArthur Beach State Park in Palm Beach County.

Wandering the Beach

Last night, I hit up the Beach and wandered to Lincoln, Washington and made a stop at the Shelborne for some karaoke delights. The surprise of the night was when Alonzo Mourning walked in and hung out in the back listening to the throngs of people sing along to I Want it that Way, Gold Digger and Wanted Dead or Alive. We first stopped at Hofbräu München Bierhall, that wacky restaurant/German bar up towards Lenox and then headed to Jazid on Washington which had an unusually high cover (booo) and then instead of paying, headed straight for karaoke entertainment. On the way there, in front of Cameo, there were two HUGE guys dressed in head to toe white suits and everyone was taking their picture but I couldn't get a good angle. Plus didn't know who they were nor did I really care. But all in all it was a fun night wandering the streets of the Beach on a balmy Saturday night. Here are a couple of pics:

At the German Beer Hall - they have liters of beer (see below) and "boots" of beer which are ENORMOUS:

Flamingo Watch - Washington Ave:

FYI

Driving through the Florida Keys at night sucks.

I will never understand why they cannot put lights on the bridges. As far as I know, being blinded on the 7 mile bridge from some jackass who installed halogen lights on his truck is not fun for anyone.

A Causeway Moment

Sunset, palms and the city captured on the MacArthur:

trainwreck or delish?

This may end up being NOT awesome at all
but.... uh.... I still want to go

A Photographic Journey of Brickell by the Bay at Night

I snapped these a while ago and have been meaning to put them on here. It was a nice balmy night and the moon was full over Miami...

Shopping at the Airport

I went this morning to the airport and was pleasantly surprised at what you can do while you are waiting for someone to leave. Usually when I travel to MIA,

I am either in a hurry to get to my gate or am picking someone up outside, so today due to the storm, I thought it would be a good idea if I accompanied my guest in to check on the status of his flight. While there, we visited Cafe Versailles, watched the dudes at the Nokia store throw a dance party and found a new pashmina in one of the gift shops. They had great Miami shirts too - not touristy at all. I almost got one but already had my eye on the pashmina. I've found others there too coming back from flights. Who knew the airport had all this and more?

Other airport pashminas:

I hear it's made vast improvements and looks like it is continuing in that direction. There's a blog on Miami and transportation (Transit Miami), so my next question is when are they going to (if they are) connect the metrorail to the airport? It can't be completely impossible.