While in Florida, I got a copy of the Sun-Sentinel where I discovered two interesting stories in the local section:

Meanwhile, Florida was a fun place. I got to see the Miami Beach area, which on first sight looks like a New Urbanist’s dream. The one thing I couldn’t figure out was that despite a very active street life, I didn’t see very many places to live. My grandparents live in an area close to West Palm, where you can find a lot of retirees. With the retirees, there are also some flea markets where you can find clothes that only tourists and grandparents would wear, wicker furniture, and things to do with lucite.

The two favorite moments of the trip were when grandma and grandpa cooked dinner for everybody, and the next night when we all went out to celebrate grandma and grandpa’s anniversary. Other highlights included Keith the New York waiter with a “me me” attitude, a Monopoly game with my cousins that ended in a happy draw, mom catching the flu from my cousin (well, maybe that wasn’t really a HIGHlight), watching Edward Scissorhands as we approached South Beach, teaching 185 to my cousins, learning how to send text messages from my phone, and Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray at the Mega Deli of Doom.