Sunday 20th May 2007

Our wake up call woke us up at 7am this morning, because we had to move our car by 8am. We got ourselves ready and walked over to pick up the car - we planned on driving down to Coconut Grove for a few hours. The weather didn't look too great, but hopefully it would improve...

We stopped in Coconut Grove for a coffee and a bagel, in a lovely pavement café. As it was a Sunday, which we'd forgot (you lose track of time when you're traveling), everything was closed and not due to open until 11am. We had a quick look round and then thought we'd head back to South Beach as the weather was starting to get worse.

During the drive back it started raining, and raining, and raining some more. Within half an hour the streets were flooded and they looked like rivers. It got a bit scary when the car was bobbing down the road like a boat, past some smaller vehicles which weren't so lucky and had started sinking.

We pulled in to wait for the weather to pass, but it didn't! After an hour we thought we'd make a dash for home. We eventually got back to South Beach, where the weather was just as bad, and had to walk from the car park, to the parking attendant (who, for some reason, didn't fancy walking to us). The water was nearly up to our knees in places!

We headed back to our hostel on foot, and went to our room to dry off. Within half an hour the sun was back out and the streets were bone dry - it looked like nothing had happened. If it had not been for the millions of pictures Nikki had been taking, I would have thought we'd dreamt it.

Nikki wanted to look for some sunglasses, so we walked down to Lincoln St, where there are loads of shops. After half an hour of trying on sunglasses Nikki eventually settled on some Ray-Ban Aviators. We took them back to the hostel and Nikki tried them on again, only to decide that actually, she didn't like them after all (I should have known something was wrong, when every five minutes she would stop me to ask if they were ok!). Back to the sunglasses shop we went, where Nikki swapped the Ray-Ban's for some white Prada sunglasses (after another hour or so of trying on the same pairs as before). Prada! She's getting as bad as me!

We'd heard Britney Spears was playing a secret gig two blocks from our hostel. We thought about going but the queue was quite long and the tickets were $40 a piece, plus the pizza next door looked like much more fun, so we decided to stop and have a massive slice of pizza each, (which was only $4 a piece), and then sat on the balcony having a beer.

Thankfully, nobody tried robbing the internet computer tonight!