This past weekend I went to Miami for some partying. It was my girls birthday and we thought we’d celebrate it in the sun.. rather than the cold here where we live. I arrived a day earlier (Wed) than all my friends (1 of the girls I was supposed to meet up with missed her flight). I was pretty pissed off when I arrived.

I found that the Miami airport was very confusing. I was waiting for a shuttle to come from “Runway Inn” hotel – They never showed up. Even though I called them twice and my friend (who was calling from Ecuador) also called them. I waiting outside where all of the shuttles/pickup etc came.. Nothing for 2 hours. I was almost ready to cry from frustration. It was such a terrible night. Anyway, after calling them another time and getting the run-around from them, who couldn’t care less of my wait BTW – I SUGGEST TO EVERYONE  — NEVER BOOK WITH RUNWAY INN MIAMI — EVER….. I said fuck it, I’m not waiting anymore and called my Hostel (which we were staying at the rest of the 5 days). They were so polite, took me in last minute – set me up. I took a supershuttle into Miami Beach, the driver took me around and showed me all the sights, gave me advice, etc – Even helped me with my bags at the hostel. Nice man.. That night I spent the time in my room. I was exhausted anyway, and really didn’t feel like partying much.

Next day (Thurs), I had a nice walk along the beach in the early morning, got some yummy breakfast, tanned on the beach and met up with the rest of my friends. It was good to finally not be alone in this strange place. LOL Waited for another one of our friends, checked-in and headed to the beach. Afterwards at night we got ourselves dinner (which was provided free by our hostel), and we headed out to LIV Nightclub at the Fontainebleau. I don’t get what everyones hype is about LIV.. yeah sure it’s in a good area. But the place is small, I’ve been to a ton of much nicer clubs before. The dancefloor got packed by 1AM – Sharam was DJing that night. The girls and I could hardly move.. so we left pretty early… around 2AM-ish… our feet were hurting. The hotel was really quite pretty, loved the chandelier  — but nothing compared to the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. I think Vegas has spoiled me to a point where I’ll never really be impressed with any other hotel. LOL

Next day was another beach day (Friday). It was very windy though and also cloudy. Actually.. most days (other than the first and last day) were cloudy and windy. We ended up going out with our hostel that night to Love Hate and Cameo… I was pretty gone that night, as the hostel gave us drinks and shots. I remember dancing on the ledge between the tables (I’m very surprised I didn’t fall on my face).. It was fun from what I remembered.

Saturday – yet another beach day, and also Jenny’s birthday! We walked around like usual, checked out Lincoln Mall – great place to shop! That night we ended up meeting with a promoter at another hotel, and we got into Mansion Nightclub for free. The group basically needed more girls to get them in. There were probably around 20 other guys – us and a few other girls. We didn’t mind – Definitely didn’t want to spend $25 to get into the club. That night Dirty South was DJing – so it was pretty busy. I stayed sober that night because I wanted to enjoy the music – OMG It was a pretty amazing night! They handed out lighted foam tubes everyone was waving around, had confetti cannons everywhere. It reminded me of Las Vegas. LOL – One thing I do regret from that night was walking back to our hostel ALONE. I felt so unsafe – so much cat-calling, questionable characters on the street @ 4AM – I stuffed my iPhone/ID/cash in my bra while I was walking… Never again.

Sunday, went out for breakfast by the beach at Ocean… tanned at the beach – Even floated in the Ocean! Damn that water is salty! It was the first time I went in (past knee length) – Not as scary as before LOL… We ended up at Nikki Beach with our hostel. It was fun from what I remember – I made the mistake of pre-pre-drinking LOL BAD IDEA. I pretty much blacked out. I don’t remember much of the night.. and I probably made an ass out of myself. Damn. Horrible.

Monday – I stayed in bed all morning-afternoon feeling ashamed and hungover – oh well – afterwards we went over to an Italian Restaurant on Lincoln and had gelato for dessert. We had to because of Jersey Shore. It was pretty great too! So surprised. We didn’t end up partying like we usually do – went to bed pretty early (around midnight)

Tuesday – well rested, the girls left before me and I went over to the beach to take some well needed photos and video. I was going to incorporate them in a school project, but I can’t think of a way to combine them without looking bad LOL – just no motivation… Johanna and I took the bus around 1PM to the airport and I was off to home at 4:30PM

I had direct flights to Miami both ways – so it was pretty easy to get down there. The airport in Toronto only took me 30 mins – Miami about an hour wait.. flights were both under 3 hours. Pretty sweet! Overall – my trip was good. I think it will be a long time before I plan to go back though. I felt that staying by the beach was unsafe, and I was always watching out for someone to take my things. There were a lot of homeless people on the streets and sketchy people that would yell out, try to get your attention with rude/perverted comments, EVEN weirdos trying to touch you. Not my kind of place to vacation in… *nods head*

Last weekend I went to Montreal to go camping with the awesome Laurie. I had a really great time. I went with a friend from work who didn’t seem to have as much fun as I did, kind of a downer. BUT I made the most of it. We left here around 11am and got to the campground after 4pm. It didn’t take as long as I thought it would. I’ll definitely make the drive again if I have to OH, I also got to ride on a Ferry!!! It was pretty cool, never done that before. I was totally NOT expecting it too. It was like all of a sudden I turned in this small town and then there was a line up for the Ferry. HAHA. We celebrated by playing “I’m on a boat” by T-Pain ;) It was rediculously fun.. HAHA We drank and tanned on the beach all day long. Now I’m so dark, it’s pretty crazy. I guess I don’t need to use my tanning minutes anymore. I don’t want to be any darker than what I am right now heh.

This coming up weekend I was supposed to go to Darien Lake, but everyone canceled last minute. So we had to cancel our reservations (n) Now this leaves me with the entire weekend and more off. I’m off Friday-Wednesday!!! What the hell am I gonna do with myself?! I wish I could plan a last minute trip, but I would only want to go to Las Vegas or maybe New York City.. and I haven’t saved up enough for semi-big trips like that. I could only afford the flights. Ah well. I may just save the money I was going to use for Darien Lake, and put it in my B-day Trip fund. I really hope that will happen! It has to!

OH!! On Monday I picked up my new laptop for school. It’s a 15″ MacBook Pro. It’s so pretty and I love it already. I even went out to the Apple store right after and picked up a pink (outter)case/shell and white sleeve for it. Customizing for me IS everything!