Buona Sera!

Buona Sera!

MY LONGTIME FRIEND OLIVIA WHO RESIDES IN GEORGIA.

Did you day go well? It has been a busy one for me. I guess I over did it today. I still have a lot of things to catch up and it is going to take a few days before I am finished. 

My playmate prepared breakfast for dinner. We enjoyed blueberry pancakes, eggs and sausages. We got it all down with plenty of coffee. We watched a series on DVD with Chris. Yes we got him up for a couple of hours and he enjoyed it.

I am caring for Chris tonight and my shorty is in her office on her Mac. Chris is relaxing watching TV and he is waiting for his IV supplement to start.

Tomorrow starts very early for us. We are taking Chris to a doctor's appointment that is at 7:45am. Yes, I said 7:45am. Sister Jayne is going to join us and once the appointment is over she will care for Chris for the rest of the day. She is a hidden Tucson gem and a special member of our family.

Well, this is the start of the posting about our cruise to the Caribbean. Enjoy!

We departed Tucson on 31 Oct making our way to Gilbert, Arizona to spend the night with Sheila and Dave. We arrived and rested up for a bit before we ventured out for dinner.

We went to "Bobby Q's" a BBQ place on Mesa. The food was excellent. We returned the house and we hit the sheets because we had to get up at 4:00am so we could head for the airport to catch our flight to Dallas/Ft.Worth and then to Miami. We kind of fell asleep. It is going to be a long day.

We arrived in Miami and we called the hotel shuttle to pick us up. We are spending the night at the Even Hotels on Miami near the airport. Our room is very nice and this is a different kind of hotel. All of the room numbers are even hence the name.

The shuttle driver was very nice and he recommended a good Cuban restaurant for us to have dinner that was near the hotel. After we got settled in our room we gave him a call and he drove us to the restaurant. 

He did not steer us wrong. The food was excellent and we all ate way too much and the portions were huge.  I have to say that we could barely move. 

We started with three kinds of meat empanadas. One chicken, oxtail, and ham and cheese. Elise had the liver and onions, I had the Cordon Bleu that was to die for. Sheila and Dave had lobster tails and a filet. All served with black beans and rice which was super good. For dessert we had key lime pie and Elise said it was the best she has had in 20 years. I ordered the flan that was so good. I also enjoyed a couple of Mojito's that were excellent. We could not move. We called the hotel shuttle driver and he came to pick us up. We thanked him for suggesting "La Rosa" for dinner.

We waddled to our rooms to sleep so we could rest up before we headed for the pier tomorrow afternoon. We slept like gigantic logs. What a great way to start this vacation.

INSIDE OUR ROOM

MIO MOGLIE CHECKING OUT.

WORKOUT CENTER IN OUR ROOM. I LOVED THE "STRIPPER POLE"

EVEN HOTEL

WAITING ON THE SHUTTLE DRIVER TO TAKE US TO DINNER.