On the Way to New Orleans

We are back from New Orleans, Lousiana. It was wonderful!

I am going to have several post about our trip. I have already planned the thematical sequence of the blog posts that you will have in the upcoming days! :)

So, here is the first one: ON THE WAY TO NEW ORLEANS

 

The road we took from Miami to New Orleans. It took us about 14 hours.

It's us before leaving Miami. Sorry for the swollen eyes but it was still 6 in the morning.

We stopped at a Waffel House and had a huge, yummy breakfast. 

One of the stops we had. We felt exhausted, hot, hungry, thirtsy. It was boiling hot outside.

I juts liked the logo of the gas station.

Found some mushrooms in a park.

We are in Tallahassee!!!!!

Clouds are coming....

Towards Pensacola.

Hello Mississippi!

Hello Lousiana!

Seeing the sign after approximately 13 hours of driving. Such a good feeling.

The first views of the city. At last!

Tomorrow

Tomorrow we are leaving for New Orleans and probably for Melbourne (on the way back). I will surely take as many photos as I can and make sure you will see lots of them when we get back next weekend.

A Saturday in Cheescake Factory

We got a call yesterday that my ring is ready (first, they told me to wait 2 weeks and now it is ready in only 1 week). It fits my finger perfectly now, so I am glad.

After the pick-up we decided to have a nice lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. Let's take a look!

THE menu.

With an empty stomach. But still OK.

So hard to choose, I know.

My choice.

I never thought that he is going to end up with a salad. Haha.

That is why we love coming here. Adam's Peanut Butter Cup Fudge Ripple. These six words mean paradise.

Fireworks for Independence Day

That is how the fireworks looked like on 4th July in Miami Beach, Florida.

4th July, 2013 - Independence Day

My 4th July in pictures:

On the way to South Beach.

South Beach.

 Sunset at the beach.

Fireworks for Independence Day.

At Loews South Beach.

Coco

He prefers playing to writing a blog...

Rain in Florida

Yesterday we went to the city as we had some time in the morning before Otto went to work and also because we needed to start the process of our marrige. (I will write about it in another post a bit later. :) )

The weather was very nice and by the time we got into the restaurant where Otto works part-time, I was sweating heavily. I couldn't wait to get inside a building which has air-condition. 

I finally met Cathy (Otto's boss and the owner of the restaurant.) I haven't met her since 2010 so you can imagine how happy we were to catch up a bit at last. I say 'a bit' as she is always very, (literally) very busy. She is a really nice, warm-hearted person who treats Otto as her own son. I am really thankful for her for that.

Before I go into details with Thai food (food again...), I rather post some pictures about the rain here. I hope that the pictures can report the weather which turns rainy in 5 seconds.

Otto started to work at 11 am so I decided to look around in Coral Gables where the restaurant is until they close at 3pm. It was sunny with a couple of light clouds when I entered Ross's (department store). When I came out of the store this was the view I had:

I was standing at the crosswalk for a minute or so, the light turned green, I crossed the street and...

...it started raining crazily. I had to stop under a huge umbrella that a store had on the front otherwise I would get soaked to skin. 

The rain was over in 5 minutes, the sky cleared and we had this view again:

What they say here is that: 'If you don't like the weather (in Florida), wait another minute...