Today again in beautiful weather we drive with Jane and the recovering Mike and explore Miami and the art-deco community of South Beach.
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| Using your head in Miami. |
It is a wonderful day and the white sandy beaches are as I remember: crowded with people, young and old, thong or no-thong.
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| The Carlyle for lunch. |
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| This is where we stayed on Collins 5 years ago. |
The hotels fronting Ocean are beautiful and all feature sidewalk restaurants. You must pass through the seating areas when using the sidewalk and we are constantly being handed meal discount offers by very good looking barely legal women. We finally settle on the Carlyle, partly because Jane thinks she remembers it from the Robin Williams and Nathan Lane version of Birdcage (some of the clients looks like they could have been in the movie), and partly because Mike and I are tired and thirsty and the drinks are “two-for-one” and it is best, anyway, to go with the ladies choices.
We sit, and all order Mojitos; our waitress departs, and soon we notice the drink menu did not list prices. Mike, although still ailing, becomes suspicious. Pulling it together he summons the waitress and asks, pleasantly, the price of the Mojito. $19.50, she says pleasantly. So for $19.50 my wife and I can share two mojitos? No, for $19.50 each you can have four mojitos. Do you mean our bar bill will be about $40 per couple? Well, yes. Much discussion ensued all pleasantly and she eventually went back to talk with her manager. When she returned she had our drinks (very good), saying we could have two Mahitos per couple for 19.50. (This sounds like no deal now while writing, but it seemed a great victory at the time.) The food portions of our lunch were from the special pricing menu and were excellent, the portions being reasonably smaller and cheaper than on the regular menu.
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