SPRING BREAK: MOVIES
I uploaded some movies of my spring break in Miami, Florida. you can watch them here.
SPRING BREAK: SUMMARY
Here is a little summary of my Spring Break 2009:
Friday 6th of march:
We woke up at 10am in Kentucky, picked our car which was a Chevy HHR and started our trip to Cookeville, Tennessee where we picked up our friends (Sven, Rick and Chris). We stayed in Tennessee for one night. You can see the pictures here.
Saturday 7th of march:
We left Cookeville, Tennessee behind us and started our 15 hour during car ride to Miami, Florida. During this ride we had a mechanical failure at our car -the fuel meter failed working- so we drove to Enterprise in Orlando to change a car. We got an SUV now instead of a full-size vehicle, a KIA Sportage. When we arrived we got in our room and we explored Miami City and the beach. You can see the pictures here.
Sunday 8th of march:
We layed down on the beach ("South Beach") and we got burned, even while we used sunblock spray.. But hey, we are in Miami, and we'll just have to live with the pain for some days.. In the evening we sat down at Nikki Beach, a "club" which was very nice. As lunch we ate a sandwich and in the evening we went to some small not that good looking restaurant (because the motel owner told us it's good), but the food was very good ! You can see the pictures here.
Monday 9th of march:
We went on a airboat trip through the Everglades, a national park. We saw alot of alligators, turtles and birds. It was really nice.. I even held a 3 year old alligator in my hands, it was really soft.. Totally unexpected.. Now I can understand why they make bags, belts from it..
In the afternoon/evening we went to the beach again ("Miami Beach" this time) and by being in the water for like 10 minutes we got some more red spots on our bodies.. Fun fun fun..
Afterwards we went to eat a pizza at a small place we looked up from the internet and the pizza was good.. So far we've been lucky by picking places to eat here..
When we finished this we went to look for a place to get a drink, while driving there we passed on some small islands where alot of rich people live.. 4 cars in the driveway: Escalade, BMW, Mercedes, Range Rover,...
In the evening we went to Oceans drive where we saw a lot of nice cars. We looked for a nice spot and drank something in a bar, Dimitri Sven and me ordered some champagne (75 dollars per bottle). Rick ordered a Mojito (27 dollars) which was very expensive. You can see the pictures here.
Tuesday 10th of march:
We went to the Miami Metro Zoo, a zoo with alot of nice animals.. It was fun too see..
After this we went to eat on Ocean Drive, the road that's closest to the beach. It has alot of restaurants, bars and even clubs.. It's a loooooooong road. After the food we went to make some pictures of the Miami skyline at night, Rick had made some very nice pictures. You can see the pictures here.
Wednesday 11th of march:
On wendesday we went to Key West, you have to drive across some small islands to be able to reach it.. A 3-4h drive to get there and to get back. What we saw: alot of water, alot of boats and some sort of contest for girls to become Miss Hawaiian and to win $ 1000. Made some pictures of the sunset, watched a street performer and drove back. You can see the pictures here.
Thursday 12th of march:
On thursday we drove to the NASA - Kennedy Space Center in Orlando. We were just on time for the last tour of the day. We even saw the shuttle that was supposed to be launched today on the launchpad. And ofcourse we also saw some educational and historical events there. In the evening we drove to a motel in Orlando and booked a room. We ate at UNO - Chicago Grill, wich was very nice food again. And drank some beers and had alot of fun in & in front of our room. You can see the pictures here.>
Friday 13th of march:
On friday Dimitri, Sven, Rick and me went to Wet'n Wild which is a outside waterpark. This was very nice and we had alot of fun. I got very burned during this because I forgot to use sunblock spray. Chris went to Seaworld together with some girls he knows from his school in Tennessee.
In he evening we went back to UNO - Chicago Grill where we ate again. In the evening we searched for Chris but we couldn't find him, we left some messages at the girls' room (the ones which he joined to go to Seaworld) also we tried calling him.
After this we bought some beer and mojito and had a fun night in our motel room :). Unfortunately we didn't brought our camera to wet'n wild so I haven't got any pictures of that day.
Saturday 14th of march:
We woke at 11 and started our trip back to Kentucky. We arrived at 12h in Tennessee and we did our laundry over there because they can do it for free over there. At 2am Dimitri and me drove back to Kentucky. We arrived at 7am. We unpacked the car, went to Wal Mart for some food and returned our car to the car rental company.
Sunday 15th of march:
The day I wrote this post. The very last official day of Spring Break 2009. The last 8 days were all about sun and fun.. And I liked it very much !
About Miami: It's all about showing your money, girl and car.. So we got alot of beautiful girls walking around / lying on the beach and alot of awesome cars driving around.. Escalades, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Range Rover, Lamborgini, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Bently, Corvette, Mustang, Hummer,.. You can see them all here at Miami.. And then I'm not talking about small Audi's or BMW's or Mercedes'. But more like BMW 6 series, Mercedes from any class with 550 behind it and alot of them are also AMG. We don't even turn our heads anymore when a Mustang or a Hummer is passing by..
You can find all pictures of my Spring Break here. I will also upload some movies later.
Now back to focussing on school again :(
The countdown till Los Angeles, CA is started! 53 days till our arrival, Cali here we come!
SPRING BREAK: OVER
I just arrived back in Richmond, Kentucky and I already miss Florida. Certainly the weather ! From 26 °C to 1 °C pff! Very cold! We arrived at 7 am here at Richmond and after a visit at Walmart we are back in business haha! For the people who may be wondering how Miami is? It is awesome! It is a must-see-thing, Nikki Beach is the place to be to go at South-Beach.
I just uploaded some pictures of the first 6 days, you can see them here. More will be added later. I will also upload some nice movies :)
The countdown till Los Angeles, CA is started! 54 days till our arrival, Cali here we come!
SPRING BREAK: ORLANDO
We left Miami back behind us after 4 days. It was awesome! We took some pictures of the skyline which I will share with you soon.
I am in Orlando (that is also in Florida yes) we visited the Kennedy Space Center this afternoon. Normally there would be a shuttle launch but due to a leak in the fuel tank they cancelled it to next weekend probably. It would be very cool to see a launch but yeah... you can't have it all, right? The space center was also very impressive. It is like a big museum about space but there are attractions so you can have some kind of experience yourself about how a shuttle launch is prepared etc. Pictures of the tour in the JFK Center will follow soon.
We are staying know in the 'Ramada' motel for two days. Tomorrow we will go the waterpark Wet N Wild it should be big fun with enormous water slides and other cool stuff.
SPRING BREAK: COOPER TOWN
It's me again, it's day two in Miami here and I like it: expensive cars, expensive drinks, sun, sea and sunny!
Yesterday we spent our day at the beach, most of use got burned (including me, yes). But it is not that bad. We just got back from Cooper Town, it's kind a national park but in a swamp-environment. We had a trip on the swamp with a propellor driven boat. We saw some nice animals, especially gators :o, we held one too.
We are know preparing ourselves to go to the beach laying and relaxing, it will probably will be Nikki Beach. I will keep you updates when needed ;-)
You can also check some pictures of my second and third day here.
SPRING BREAK: ARRIVED IN MIAMI
We finally made it to Miami! We had a mechanical failure at our car - the fuel meter failed working- so we drove to Enterprise in Orlando to change a car. We got an SUV now instead of a full-size vehicle.
It's night here there is not much to see of the nature or something. We explored the city a bit this night and noticed we're in the neighborhood of 'Nikki Beach'. We were very impressed
I am hitting the sac right now tired after a 15 hours drive! Pictures will follow!
SPRING BREAK: ARRIVED IN TENNESEE
It was an early day this morning, for us, we woke up at 10AM, which would be normally 2PM. We picked up our car exactly at noon, it's a cool chevy... haha NOT!
You can't begin a road trip without a drive thru so we went to KFC and ordered a box with 30 hot wings. We just booked a motel room in the Best Western In motel - thunderbird - in Cookville. I'm at my friends their dorm the moment I write this post. We will have lunch at Cosmo, STEAK!
Check out some pictures of our first day here, I will also post a blog tomorrow when we leave to Florida.
SPRING BREAK PREPARATIONS
In my last post I said we will go to Miami, Florida during spring break, this moment arrived. We will leave tomorrow which is one day earlier then we planned. So we sent an e-mail to enterprise, our car-rental company, to hire our car one day earlier but unfortunately we didn't receive a reply. So to make sure we went to Enterprise ourselves and everything is settled now.
We packed our suitcase this afternoon and cleaned our apartment so we will arrive in a clean apartment when we return. Tomorrow we will claim our car around noon and we'll be on the road around 1PM heading to Tennessee. After a four hour drive we shall book a motel room in the Best Western motel and afterwards we will pick up our friends to have lunch in Cosmo - Chicken Wings.
I promise to keep this blog updated and flood it with pictures or/and movies ASAP and as much as possible. So keep an eye on this site ;-).
WATER PARK OHIO
We went to Ohio, to Great Wolf Lodge. It's a water park, we spent the night there from friday till saturday. Check the pictures here.
