hotel

Oh I have forgotten from my travel days what it is like to wake up with 3 hours of jet lag! Yikes! Luckily the hotel is on the main drive for Fort Lauderdale beach (some will call that unlucky) and the traffic started and I was awake! So off we went for breakfast in the hotel restaurant. We had coupons for breakfast which was a fruit plate plus croissant (they gladly substituted GF bread for me which was awesome!) and I added 2 corn tortilla’s with eggs and cheese to get some protein into my body.

Really fun to sit out on the patio and have it be WARM enough for short sleeved shirts! After breakfast we decided to walk to a local market which was about 6-7 blocks away. As we walked along the side streets, people were looking at us strangely. It was fairly humid and we were in about 28 C. heat. Got to the store – eMarket, which was NOT accessible and picked up some drinks plus some goodies like a beer for Andrew and chocolate milk to take with my medication and walked back along the beach walk. Again, not many people out walking, however as it was a Saturday, LOTS of people at the beach! Each hotel has their own beach “area” and while the Westin Fort Lauderdale did have their own beach area it was not accessible like farther up the beach- stairs to go down and no beach mat like in Vancouver at Kits Beach in order to get to the hotel’s beach chairs. They offered to put a chair next to the shower for me so all I had to do was go down the stairs but I declined – being next to someone showering is not my idea of fun!

We went back into the hotel via the elevator and overpass and passed by the bursting at the seams pool (there was a Jewish Passover group in the hotel and all the kids were in the pool it seemed) and decided to go hang out in our ocean view room.

What a pleasure to do some volunteering moderating Facebook while looking at such a nice view! Facebook was a bit out of control however at the desk with the view of Fort Lauderdale Beach, I was perfectly relaxed! Check this out!