Miami… Welcome to Miami
Miami is massive! It was such a huge city. It reminded us of NYC but with much better weather. We were there for the week of Thanksgiving. We got to explore a lot of places and my favorite was absolutely my first NBA basketball game of the Miami Heat versus the Milwaukee Bucks.
With our museum membership we got to check out the Frost Science Museum. It was a pretty good one. It had lots of interactive exhibits. One i really liked was you have to build a hurricane barrier. Your choices were a combination of Mangroves, sea walls, and coral reefs. We knew from our kayaking trip that you needed a good combination of all three. Eli and I did pretty well with that exercise. The other awesome feature of the museum was a 4 story aquarium that you could see from all levels as you went through the museum. We got to see sharks, stingrays, sea turtles, and lots of fish! At the top level was a touch area where we could touch the stingrays. This top level also had an amazing view of the city!
We when to zoo Miami for the zoo lights, we did not get to see all of the animals but we got to see some cool Christmas lights. My favorite was this turtle riding a surfboard. The best animals were the otters, you got to go in a slide through the exhibit and the otters came up to you when you slide. You also got to go into a tunnel through a fish tank and got to see a bunch of different species of fish there was also an alligator laying on the tunnel! Farther into the museum there was an alligator exhibit where you walked over a rope bridge over top a full grown gator! There were also many species of birds that we got to see at the show they had parrots and a vulture!
I was waiting for this our entire stay at Miami, a basketball game! We saw the Miami Heat play the Milwaukee Bucks. It was cool watching the players i only knew from video games play in real time. We had pretty high seats, but we had the best view because we got to the plays develop. I also got a way overpriced burger which was good.
We explored Biscayne National Park. What is cool about this park is the 90% of it is underwater! We took a boat trip to learn about this park and got to explore the first Key in Florida called Boca Chico Key. It was cool to see all the yachts that come out here to spend the day! The water was beautiful. We saw tons of fish, a few sting rays and even a sea turtle poking his head above the water. At the visitors center, we did our junior ranger packet and got sworn in and received our badge. This park is unique because if we complete the junior ranger packets at Everglades and Big Cypress we will get a special patch representing all three.
Current Leg: 143 miles
Total Miles: 3,296 miles