Florida 2010

On the way back home to New Jersey, I reflect on the times I had in Florida. Good, bad, interesting, and fun, but however you would name the moment, it was still an experience that was worth having.

Let’s start with the departure from New York. It was smooth, relaxing, and boring, with the flight crew constantly interrupting the movie I was watching. So in other words, it was like having a moment with your lover while the kids keep appearing for some stupid reason. Okay, maybe it wasn’t that unpleasant, but it was quite annoying.

Next, was the arrival in Orlando. Let me start out by saying that Orlando is one of my favorite cities in Florida. I say this as a whole and I’m not just referring to Disney World. It’s hot and humid with an occasional breeze (just like the rest of the state), but it’s the people that really catch my attention. Warm and welcoming with a down to earth state of mind. The night we arrived, (I was traveling with my father), my dad was trying to learn the roads of Florida. So in other words, we spent about an hour trying to figure out where to go for the hotel, then getting to the hotel was about another half hour. Needless to say, we arrived in my piece, but when we arrived to the hotel, everything was locked. Now, any time I arrived at a hotel at night, the doors have always been open and there was someone prompt and ready to check you in. We spent another fifteen minutes trying to get the attention of this guy who was suppose to take care of us, while giving us this attitude as if we interrupted something important. Despite my bias against this one guy, I do not base everyone in Florida on this one person’s attitude. Like I said, everyone else was the exact opposite. I neglected to mention that along with each city comes an illness. Orlando was the city where I had horrible stomach cramps and acid reflex. Along with stomach issues, I was also working off bad toothaches. This fact is very important for another section.

Now we go onto Tampa. Tampa was also one of my favorite cities, with it’s vast art scene. It also has an amazing history center and a few science museums that are worth going to. The Dali museum is one of my favorites. Most people say that he was a surreal artist, I call him a gothic artist because depute the fact that he took realistic objects and put them in a different state, the state that he put them in were melancholy and dark, much like as you would see in an old movie about the dark ages. This city also had an illness. The day we went to the Dali museum, I woke up with what I refer to as vertigo-dizziness, headache, and nausea. I am quite familiar with this feeling, but only with alcohol, but I hadn’t drunk any alcoholic beverage the night before. Then the last night we were there, again I had horrible toothaches, so me being excessive compulsive,also a complete idiot, I pop 4 pain pills. Granted, I felt great, numb and completely relaxed, but when I woke up the next morning, I wake up to HIVES and tight muscles in my legs. In all honesty, I’m still working on these two things as I’m writing this post.

As I said, I screwed up and now I’m having an allergic reaction and now we are heading towards Naples. Have you ere heard of Naples, Florida? Yeah, I haven’t. My perception of Naples was that it was small, with not much to do.

So we headed out to the Everglades. The only real reason why we stopped by the Everglades was to go on an air boat ride, which ended short due to bad rain. Now, Florida has beautiful weather, despite the humidity, but when it rains, IT RAINS. So much water went into my shoes that it felt like I was in a pool, but it was worth it.

Next was Miami. Now, I hope my bias does not aid in any decision in going to this place, but I have to be honest. I did not like Miami at all, this could have been an effect of my allergy reaction, but personally, I don’t really see what the big hype is. There’s not much to do other than go the beach shop for expensive clothes, or party. Beach, I couldn’t really do, shopping, I’M ON VACATION, which means I’m here to enjoy the sites, not buy clothes, and party, well, let’s just say I don’t really party, nor was it in the proper setting. So the rest f you can go, but I don’t really plan on going back to Miami. Granted, the girls are hot in their small bikinies- that’s like saying Bob is the smartest in a group of mentally handicapped children. Besides, I bet most of them would bend over for a cookie. My other problem with the people is that most of them are self-centered and there’s too much of public drunkenness. Don’t get me wrong, I get drunk myself, but not in public. Have some pride in your person and try to prevent that in public.

Then there was Fort Lauderdale. Great city, much like a combination of Tampa and Miami. Let me ellaborate- the people were friendly and there were quite a number of things to do, but what they had in abundance were shopping malls and yahoo sailing.

Lastly, at the airport. Now there’s not much that I can say about this particular airport, which I can’t say about any other airport. Granted, they are trying to prevent drug smuggling and terrorism, but it seems as if they go overboard. I mean, my dad bought A HAIRBRUSH that looked like a switchblade. He even showed it to them before going through and the douchebags still spent twenty freaking minutes trying to see if my dad is a terrorist. Again, DOUCHEBAGS. I understand them taking my actual knife, but they expected me to pay $30 extra for a knife that I bought for $20. Toss it. Let me explain by saying that along with our computer bags, we also had our carry ons with our clothes, which we had to check anyways because the flight was so freaking overbooked. Let me end this section by saying that airports are airports and we all had our ridiculous experiences with them.

Overall, I enjoyed myself in the sunshine state, but now it’s time to go back to my old, grumpy, and senile clients, even though I wished I didn’t have to, considering my present state…..

Anyways, laters!!!!!