After Vegas I headed to Miami to visit my friend.  We headed out looking for a strong coffee called Cortadito, which I would say  is like an espresso but called something else.  We found a great little place in the middle of pretty much nowhere and got our fix.  This is of course after having to order in Spanish something that should be so simple and yet both of us floundered with our arms helplessly flapping as we tried to ask for coffee.

I learnt Spanish for a year when I was sixteen, mainly because my boyfriend at the time was Spanish and I wanted to know what his mum was saying about me.  All these years later and the simple task of ordering a coffee and all I could think of was how to order a beer and say where is the station?  Useless.  But they smiled politely and got us what we wanted after what seemed an eternity of lost in translation.  I had let myself down, my family down and anyone else I could think of down.

We decided not to do South Beach but drive around looking for Street Art and we found plenty.  I have nothing sarcastic to say about any of it.  It just reminded me of how I got a B- for effort in art but D for the actual execution.  I never quite worked out how to get what was inside my head into art but these people certainly had.  I wonder if they draw it first as a sketch or can just do?

We had an amazing lunch at a place called Michael’s Food and Drink; it’s worth mentioning because apart from the tables being too close together, so much so we actually joined in the conversation with the people next to us, I think I had the best Chilli I had ever had.  It was a food haven.

Miami behind me I flew for a rest to my family in Florida, on a jet plane.  The propeller kind where there is only 20 seats.  Now I know why it only cost sixty bucks.  How the pilot and attendants do it constantly I don’t know.  I felt like I was in the movie Knight and Day when Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are the only people on the plane bar the bad guys.  If only Tom Cruise had made an appearance perhaps all would have been well, but he wasn’t so I shit myself for the hour.