We stayed at the W in Fort Lauderdale, and it was wonderful! The rooms were beautiful and the staff was so accomodating! Mira would have loved their alligator theme!
Beautiful!
A giant, albino Alli!!
Luxurious!
Our view!
The kind of cars that greeted us at valet - Bentleys, Lamborginis, etc.
For our anniversary dinner, we ate at Sublime and stuffed ourselves silly! We couldn't eat dessert, so we took it to go. After dinner, we went for a walk along the beach which was just across the street from the hotel! We found some great sea shells for Mira and were stoked to find what we think is a shark tooth! We were sure this would be a sign that we would see lots of sharks on our dive. After watching the sun set, we went back to the hotel, and watched a movie while indulging in Chocolate Nirvana!
Five Years Today!
"Chocolate Nirvana" to go - YUMMY!!
Sea turtle nesting season, so the beach was dotted with federally protected nests!
Evening beach scene.
Saturday evening, we went for a stroll along Las Olas Drive. We window shopped, had sorbet for dessert (first!), and then had a delicious pasta dinner!
Sunday afternoon, we did some extreme letterboxing! I won't go into what letterboxing is (check it out here), but Kenny and I treked through the jungles of Florida, where they have billions of giant spiders in giant webs and who knows what else, in search of these letterboxes! I climbed a tree (and kind of fell out of the tree) and got dirt up to my elbows, then had to bathe in a drinking fountain at a camping grounds! Not exactly fun while we were doing it, but hilarious to think about now!
One of the letterbox guards - a Giant Orb Spider. They were huge, and there were tons of them! Their webs were literally right on top of one another - it was like a scene from Arachnaphobia! Needless to say, there weren't too many other bugs to worry about!
Later that evening, we went to the movies and watched Dinner for Schmucks - we thought it was pretty funny! Always enjoy a chance to see a film in the theatre!
The diving wasn't the absolute best we've ever experienced (not a single shark!), but we did get to do our first wreck dives! Unfortunately, we had issues with our new underwater camera during both of these wreck dives! Argh!! Oh well, we got some good pics of the reef.
Kenny
Reasie
French Grunt and some cool coral
Four-Eyed Butterfly Fish
Yellow Stingray - can you see it?
Nice seascape
Parrotfish - maybe a Queen Parrotfish? Not sure.
Queen Angelfish
Scrawled Filefish
Porcupine Fish (BlowFish) - obviously, he's not scared of us!
More nice coral - a very shallow dive, so the colors were beautiful!
More species of coral
Smooth Trunkfish
A school of Blue Chromis with a couple of Sergeant Majors (B&W striped) mixed into the group.
Spadefish - gorgeous!
A Blue Tang - you may feel the urge to call it "Dory", but this is a Carribean Blue Tang, not a Pacific like from the movie!
Stoplight Parrotfish
Yellowtail Damselfish
We had a great time over the weekend. We always have a great time when we're together! Love you, Sweetie!! =)
1 comment:
Looks like a great trip! I'm so glad you guys got to dive, eat out, and go to the movies! Happy 5th!!
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