the southern fried road trip: part 2

wow! so long, no see! ok sooooo....

when we last left our heroes, they were having their last supper before the long grueling journey ahead.

OOO! OOO! OOO! i must insert this picture from mich's facebook album. here's the one that the kind gentleman offered to take of us after watching (and probably snickering) at our attempt to use the self timer.



SAT EVENING
so we managed to maneuver our way out of new orleans eventually and begin the long long loooooooonnnnnngggggg trek to florida.... or rather, through florida, since miami is quite a ways from the florida panhandle. *sigh* ok, i do love road trips and being with friends and tormenting those dear friends with my silliness knowing that they have no means of escape. ;) but there's the issue of time.... i'm not a fan of insanely long (um, can you say 14 hours?) stretches of driving. granted, during this nighttime leg of journey, i was curled up in my minuscule but very cozy backseat. but, i constantly drifted between 1/2 asleep/awake mostly out of worry that michelle was getting tired of driving. she has the stamina of a trucker, that girl. and i say that with admiration!

apparently alot of deer were standing on the side of the highway in florida (who woulda thunk?!)
awwww...
how cute...
JUST DON'T RUN IN FRONT OF MY CAR!

SUN MORN
thankfully, this never occurred. sometime in the wee morning hours, we pulled into a rest stop and slept. ahhhh, sweet sleep. then we woke up at the crack of dawn and it was jen's turn to drive and i made it to miami. whoohoo! went to church that night and ate dinner at a friend of my sister's who had the most adorable doggie ever! his name was appropriately "Blue"!





MON
oh hallelu. slept in on monday. then we went out for a cuban cuisine breakfast.
hello, my name is jennifer and i enjoy taking photos of nicely presented food.

this is a guava tart. it was muy delicioso!



cafe con leche! sooo much cream = sooo many calories = sooo good!


my big, honkin' cuban breakfast


and then we set off to the coral gables area of miami for a tour of this beautiful home turned into a museum called "Vizcaya"!

behold:



and more to come later, for i shall soon fall asleep and wake up with my keyboard being used as a pillow and indenting my face with numerous square shapes.

it's been a long day/week/month.