After a lovely few days in Miami spent chiiling by the pool, shopping and eating we had to head off to stay with our friends in Palm Beach. She is American and is a travel journalist and he's a Brit and used to work on our island as a tennis pro and we love them to bits - plus they recently got married and we havent seen them for a year.
So we reluctantly say goodbye to the Turnberry and load up the motor which I have to drive about 1.5 hours up to Palm Beach.
Notice the fact I am driving - DH (bless his little driving skills) is not allowed to drive in the US until January next year as last year when we were here (again in Miami ready to drive up to Orlando) he tried to kill us all in a big car smash by turning left across a I95 without a green light!!!!!!!!!
In the resulting high speed smash up we were hit on my door pillar by a Ford Excursion doing 60 miles an hour, spun round and hit by a school bus just to make it more fun! Result was kids were fine, the carseats did their job brilliantly but I was not - had to be cut out and had a broken shoulder, dislocated elbow, snapped calf and thigh muscles, broken toes, smashed up face etc etc.
we still did Disney but I was mainly in a wheelchair and was on ALOT of drugs (shich I might add makes Disney even BETTER!!) and dh was banned for driving for 16 months in the US.
Sooooo off we drive to Palm Beach which is GORGEOUS! Nothing like Orlando or Miami, very spacious, VERY luxurious, no strip roads filled with shops and resturants like the 192 or International Drive, more like avenues with shops discreetly tucked away.
We stayed in their lovely condo which was on a gated community and had a great pool for the boys which they lived in from morning till night.
they took 4 days off their jobs to spend with us which I know is hard for them so we really enjoyed our stay. Our highlights were the Palm Beach zoo which the kids loved - especially my youngest lad who is animal CRAZY (wanted to get in and cuddle the mountain lion
), and we had a fun lunch at a 50's diner which did great Reuben sandwiches which I am totally addicted to!
our oldest:
the boys with our friends:
bird show:
50's diner:
after an amazing few days, wonderful food and company (dont know if they thought the same after the boys annihalation of their condo!!!) we were dreading the next stop ....... the Nickleodeon Spongebob Hotel in Orlando ... I say WE were dreading it and I mean me and the DH, the kids were obviously HUGELY excited, but I'd read about this place on Tripadvisor and was not looking forward to the noise and madness ....... Disney it is not!let me tell you!!!!!
So we reluctantly say goodbye to the Turnberry and load up the motor which I have to drive about 1.5 hours up to Palm Beach.
Notice the fact I am driving - DH (bless his little driving skills) is not allowed to drive in the US until January next year as last year when we were here (again in Miami ready to drive up to Orlando) he tried to kill us all in a big car smash by turning left across a I95 without a green light!!!!!!!!!
In the resulting high speed smash up we were hit on my door pillar by a Ford Excursion doing 60 miles an hour, spun round and hit by a school bus just to make it more fun! Result was kids were fine, the carseats did their job brilliantly but I was not - had to be cut out and had a broken shoulder, dislocated elbow, snapped calf and thigh muscles, broken toes, smashed up face etc etc.
we still did Disney but I was mainly in a wheelchair and was on ALOT of drugs (shich I might add makes Disney even BETTER!!) and dh was banned for driving for 16 months in the US.
Sooooo off we drive to Palm Beach which is GORGEOUS! Nothing like Orlando or Miami, very spacious, VERY luxurious, no strip roads filled with shops and resturants like the 192 or International Drive, more like avenues with shops discreetly tucked away.
We stayed in their lovely condo which was on a gated community and had a great pool for the boys which they lived in from morning till night.
they took 4 days off their jobs to spend with us which I know is hard for them so we really enjoyed our stay. Our highlights were the Palm Beach zoo which the kids loved - especially my youngest lad who is animal CRAZY (wanted to get in and cuddle the mountain lion
), and we had a fun lunch at a 50's diner which did great Reuben sandwiches which I am totally addicted to!our oldest:
the boys with our friends:
bird show:
50's diner:
after an amazing few days, wonderful food and company (dont know if they thought the same after the boys annihalation of their condo!!!) we were dreading the next stop ....... the Nickleodeon Spongebob Hotel in Orlando ... I say WE were dreading it and I mean me and the DH, the kids were obviously HUGELY excited, but I'd read about this place on Tripadvisor and was not looking forward to the noise and madness ....... Disney it is not!let me tell you!!!!!
to your car crash last year. I hope you have fully recovered.
im looking forward to the next installement
Glad you were all OK.
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