I had a relaxing vacation in Miami, Florida the last week of June.  The Four-Points Sheraton hotel was fabulous!  The food there was absolutely amazing and we hardly left the facility.  Out the back of the hotel you walk to pool and then a few feet past that is the beach.  Everything was incredibly amazing.  

I would put on my bikini, yes you heard me right, and lay out on the beach each day.  Atleast it wasn’t a thong bikini, like some of the ones my son and husband saw. 

The boardwalk was fun to walk just when the sun was about to set.  We would walk as far as we could and then turn around and walk back on the beach. 

The second day we drove down to South Beach and found Miami Ink.  That is one of my favorite shows.  I went in to get a tatoo, I don’t have one so this is a big deal, but the cast of course only works when they are filming the show.  I did not want to pick out something out of a book, but I sat on the bench inside for a bit and watched one buff gentlemen getting a tatoo.  I am currently tatoo-less.  South Beach is certainly interesting and we visited that a couple of days in a row and I got to go in an Ed Harley store.  The kids know that designer!  I was so pleased that we were in the 43 hundred block of the strip instead of the small boutique hotels down in South Beach.  The traffic down there was so congested and it would be difficult to get in and out.

This is a fabulous, huge mall; Adventura Mall.  We went there two days in a row.  It was like our Galleria Mall only a whole lot better!  They had a Betsy Johnson store!  My daughter and I loved it!  They had designer stores that we don’t have here.  The clothing in Miami is amazing it is full of color and patterns.  I was in awe of the fabulous-ness around me.  I made my purchases at Vertigo and Steve Madden.  Of yes, a pair of red patten stilletto pumps.  Only in Miami is the ad for this mall a girl in a bikini.  I don’t see any cellulite, do you?  I think the trip to Miami was worth it just for this mall.  We did past the Bal Harbour shopping district with Saks, Chanel, Dolce and Gabbana, but my kids would not have been interested.  I will save that mall for a return trip with girlfriends.