Day 2 - Miami Vice

We woke up bright and early this morning (surprising, I know!!), slapped on the sun cream and headed straight to the beach. The beach is absolutely beauuuut, and its ridiculously hot but there has been a nice breeze today, especially by the sea. After a morning of attempting to tan and remaining very pale in comparison to the majority of the beach, we wondered into town to find some lunch. There's something about Miami which feels quite European, we can't figure out what it is, especially the areas with restaurants and trees and smaller streets. On this wander we found the most brilliant shop that sold... wait for it... puppies!!! Literally real life puppies in little box cage things behind glass. Only in America!

After lunch we mooched back to our hostel. All our roommates were milling about too, the French girls left today and we've got a new roommate who is a 60+year old lady from Chile!! She's pretty friendly, and full of stories but obviously has a very different attitude to the hostel experience to us lot!! There was an insane heavy shower of rain this afternoon, it literally came from nowhere and then was gone almost immediately because it's so hot it dried up!

We're absolutely knackered tonight, I think the lack of sleep is catching up with us (well it certainly is on the sparks front!!) so were having a chilled evening with our German roommate Irina. She's really nice, and has been travelling the world for 11 months already!! There's many a story being exchanged and we're sitting outside in the outdoor kitchen as I type eating olives, crisps, cheese and crackers and drinking wine. Who knew we could be so civilised!