To most, this vacation is a tiny little thing. But to us
McLane’s, it’s huge. A combination of going somewhere we’ve never been before
with oodles of special time with my kids… it is a big deal to me. The first
hours have been great.
We got to
Ft.
Lauderdale
,
rented a car and headed into town to fulfill our task of the day. Job #1 was
eat some seafood and go to the beach. With that as our top priority, we went
right to it. Of course the minor detail of not having a place to stay was beside
the point… but we did go out to eat right away and then made our way to the
beach.
After lunch at a place called Quarterbackers (or something
like that) we found the downtown parking area and waddled our white skins over
to the
Atlantic Ocean
. Paul had never been to the ocean,
only Megan. So this was quite an adventure for our almost 3 year old!
We waded and splashed around for about an hour when I
decided it was high time we secured a place to stay. Halfway between the beach
and the inter-coastal waterway we saw a place that had “Vacancy” on the front.
We went in, looked at a room and decided we could survive a night there. In
retrospect the “Wish You Were Here Inn” was a mistake. We should have shopped
around! Great location, bad room… is it OK if I call the place a dump? If I
were to give it a AAA rating it would be one half of a star. Honestly, it’s
terrible! I have to take some pictures just to document how bad it is or no one
will believe me. The only upside is its location. Our room back up to the
inter-coastal waterway and we can watch boats go by as well as enjoy the little
patio area. Nothing quite like typing this with warm air on my face and the
slaps of water against the hauls of yachts.
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