South Beach Trip

We had our annual Outtask outing to South Beach; Debbie and I flew all night, and checked into our hotel at 8am Friday morning slept a few winks and hit Ocean Drive. It was warm, and sunny. Our hotel was great; our room was huge, and well furnished. We knew we were in good company when we heard that Jamie Fox owns one of the penthouses in the building and ran into Chris Noth (from Law and Order) on the beach and in the hotel several times.
Friday night we met up with the gang at Curt's condo for a party, and had a great evening. His condo is on the 21'st floor of a high rise right on the water; it has a panoramic view that sweeps from the ocean to the city, and overlooks the port. From our hotel room a few blocks away, we watched Cruise ships leave the port; they went down a canal into the Ocean.
Saturday we took a Catamaran cruise out in the bay, the crew kept us entertained, and we managed to avoid most of the rain storms. We cruised by “Stiltsville” in the bay, these houses are remnants of a community of about 50 homes that were built back in the 1930’s – they were most recently used for running drugs. After our cruise we had an early dinner at the “Big Pink”. Later in the evening we meet every one out at a very cool roof top bar – it was very stylish, lots of white walls and pastel colors. On our way back, we were hungry so we went back to the Big Pink. Across the street from the Big Pink was a night club; every one going into the club was in costume and many filtered into the restaurant – we sat between the Village People and a bunch of Pimps – it was fun people watching.
Sunday we walked around on the beach, and then went to a really nice brunch. We flew home arriving at midnight to car with a flat tire. We had a great trip, we’ll have to go back to Miami again. It was a fun sendoff for Outtask, so we’ll have to think of a different reason to meet-up next year.