After having rest at the hotel, we went to South Beach — a famous place in Miami Beach. Before going there, we only knew that there were tons of different cafes, restaurants and clubs there. Well, we confirm, that’s true!
We parked our car at the meter, I paid for 4 hours (maximum allowed time. 1 hour — $1) and we went to the beach. And although, nobody was swimming, the water in the ocean was very warm (I was really surprised by how warm it was) so we took off our shoes and continued walking along the ocean and chatting during an hour or so.
There, I came up with the crazy idea (which I think is kinda cool, but Darya doesn’t support me here). She asked me about estimated time to get to New York from Key West by walk. I said: «Hm, let’s do the math here… When you’re walking, your average speed is about 3 mph. The distance from Key West to New York is about 1500 mi. It means that making 30 miles a day, it will take you 50 days to get to New York. But it’s tough: this is assuming that you make 30 mi a day everyday, no matter what. What kind of physical abilities and training do you need to have to actually do it?». And then I though: «Hm, that might be a nice adventure!». And my mind was developing and developing until I got absolutely obsessed with this idea. I though that 50 days may be too little for an adventure like this. But if you have 3 full months (June-September) it might work. I’m not 100% sure, but I think that I’ll do it one day. This is already on my Adventures list 
After the night walk on the beach we went to Ocean Dr — the place where all the party is going on. The atmosphere reminded me Arcadia in Odessa. I even forgot that I was in US. Truth to be told, I though that I trapped to Mexico or Spain somehow 
South beach is a really cool place for young people — music is everywhere; nicely dressed people are hanging out and having fun. The atmosphere is pretty friendly. And everything is illuminated!
After walking around for a little while, I saw the nice pair of running shoes of my favorite brand — Puma. This time I couldn’t pass by! I was trying to find something like those in New York but couldn’t find what I would like. This time I was lucky: seller turned out to be a friendly guy and showed me pretty much what I might like. I liked two pairs of shoes (different colors and style). I was about to buy them, but just imagine what the price margin is on the South Beach (90-100%? Easy!). So of course, I had to get some discount After arguing with the guy, he was happy to give me 20% discount (and he told me that I had almost driven him crazy — nicely done 
We had about 1.5-2 hours more before parking expiration and we decided to make a little break and go to the restaurant. I can’t recall the name right now, but it was a nice restaurant with friendly waitresses (with hot Spanish accent! Oh, I loved it!). I ordered Coconut Mojito and New York steak with Royal Shrimps and Darya got some fancy shrimps (I won’t even try to recall that exotic name and Margarita cocktail. There was a live band playing so I had lots of fun listening to their music.
After we finished with food and drinks, it was about time to go to the hotel (parking expired and we got tired).
We came to the hotel at about 12:30 am, and remembering that it was my dad’s birthday we decided not to wait and to be the first to call (remember about 7 hours difference). I went like: «Daddy, we’re just back from South Beach and there are crowds of people celebrating something; when I came up to find out what’s up they reminded me that you had a birthday and that’s why they were celebrating this event, so I’m calling». He sounded pretty happy! I know that he would do something like that to me Dad, we love you so MUCH! I know you’re reading this, so happy birthday again!
…And then we went to bed. We had an ocean view suite so I opened the door to the balcony and we were sleeping with sounds of the wash. The air was so fresh that I’ve fallen asleep in no time.
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