So I'm writing to you the morning of...our CRUISE!  We're as ready as can be for it, although I still don't have jogging worthy headphones, but I'm not running 5 miles to best buy to get a pair so I'll deal with my noise cancelling ones unless I can find something on the cruise or one of the ports. 

We enjoyed our day in Miami.  We hit a "dive" from the TV show 'Diners, Drive-ins and Dives' and despite it's exterior...and interior...and service...the food was awesome!  Only one of us got a show featured meal and it was more then any two of us could have eaten.  I think it was called the 11th St Diner, it was actually shipped down from it's previous location in Wilkes-Barre, PA...I think I may have eaten at it there too..if it used to be near the Social Security Building on Wilkes-Barre Ave.

I'm sure Miami is a great town, but the cold weather didn't lend itself to much walking so we drove a lot and saw everything from the car.  We did stop a bit to do some shopping but there wasn't anything that anyone had to have so we got out cheap.

The highlight of the night though clearly was Joni's trip on a Metro Mover...she gets a little too excited about riding on a subway but since it was free, I couldn't not find a way to use it.  We ended up taking it to some ocean front shops and ate dinner at Bubba Gumps Shrimp.  Since we already returned our rental car, we were really at the mercy of public transit and our tolerance for cold...it was that or Chilis since all the other local restaurants were closed due to weather...yes, that's what I said. "CLOSED DUE TO WEATHER".  I was shocked to see that some of these places have no indoor seating...none. 

The night ended on a 12 pack of beer and a few mini bottles of wine and today we're up and at 'em ready to board...in 5 hours...