Cheryl,
where is Georgio's? My mom lives very close to downtown Hollywood (she and her husband work in a law office there). I live about 10 minutes west of there. My husband is in construction (plumber/pipefitter) and has been very busy building all of those new highrises. He works in Broward, though. When I was little we live in NJ and we used to come to Miami for vacation in the summer. We usually stayed at the Golden Strand (in those little villas on the beach) or at the Nichols in Bal Harbour-which is no longer there. I lived in North Miami from age 11-18, then on Alton Rd in Miami Beach, then in Bal Harbour. It's so nice for vacation, but I couldn't care less about a beach or a pool when I'm on vacation! WDW here I come -8 days!