Vacation '08: Let the pictures talk...SPEECH!

This is just round 1 (Miami) of several (Key West, Carnival Liberty pics, Grand Cayman Island, Ocho Rios)

As noted here before, I went on vacation a couple weeks ago. Now that I've had the time to get back home and into the swing of things (which include planning another trip, viewing lots of great vacation photos, and oh yeah, work), I've finally found the time to share some of the memories.

This vacation was hands-down one of the best 3 I've ever been on. We had a FANTASTIC time and I couldn't have asked for better people, weather, or experiences. We started out in Miami so I think I'll keep this post confined to what we did in Miami. But rather than type up a boring-azz narrative that no one (who was not there) can appreciate, I think I'll let the pictures do the talking. Well, pictures and captions (LOL).

From there, I'll give the recap of the entire cruise from the ship to Key West to Grand Cayman Island to Ocho Rios, and back home (which was an experience all by itself). Each part of the cruise with a dedicated blogpost. But without further blabber, here are some of the pictures from our time in Miami...

The first thing I do when I get to South Beach is hit Fat Tuesdays. Zuri and KC went along with Dane and I and some rowdy azz folks playing pool provided us with hilarious entertainment.


Later on that night we all went to Nikki Beach for dinner. Nikki Beach is a very nice spot to eat. But for some reason there were hardly any people there aside from us. The food was just average but it was a great experience.





After Nikki Beach, we went upstairs to Nikki Club. It was all-white on the inside (no pun intended by the way) and there were lots of ladies (and a few gents) there but for some reason this place had the aura of a place where rich guys take their "escorts". It just wasn't my type of crowd.


Woo, Craig, and Fool missed their flight to Miami so by the time we finished dinner, walked past Privé, and tried to get into a party at The 5th (which looked like it was probably going to be off the chain), they had finally made it to South Beach. So we ended up meeting at a bar on Ocean Drive for drinks. Needless to say, the fellas got HAMMERED! LOL. Cigars, rum & coke, and Patron shots. The bartender (to the right in the pic below) was serving up free shots of Patron during their late night Happy Hour. I am so glad we didn't have to drive home afterward.


The next day when we got up, I was dead-set on hitting the beach. I had my Nerf football ready and I'd done like 6 billion push-ups the day before. I was READY TO GO! That's probably why Woo has that look on his face in the picture below.




Woo, Zuri, KC and I all headed to the beach. It turned out that me and Woo got in the water while the ladies chilled out in the beach chairs.



While Woo and I were in the water playing football, Fool, Craig, Dane, and a bunch of KC's friends came to the beach. We all ended up leaving and heading to a restaurant to get lunch. After lunch, it was Wet Willie's...






Later on that night before we headed out for the evening, we hit another bar/restaurant. This was pretty much just our pre-gaming for the rest of the night.








After pregaming, we all went back to our respective hotels, got dressed, and got ready to hit (...pause...) Diamonds strip club (...pause...) and then some spot called DREAM.




The rest of the night from this point was just simply fun, fun, fun! Nothing too crazy, but fun. This was our last night in Miami before we left for the cruise and we spent it partying the night away. It was so much fun and unlike last year, I didn't lose my camera while we were in Miami. LOL.