Wow Wednesday!

We first headed down to the Dante Fascell Visitor Center for the Biscayne National Park near Homestead Florida-  really beautiful site and visitors center-  right on the ocean looking into the open ocean, and several miles up the way, you can see downtown Miami.

 Biscayne is my 167th park to visit out of 397 National Parks.

 Downtown Miami off in the distance from the dock on the VC

Tpyical of the views here- Hurricane Andrew totally wiped out this area and it took about 5 years to recover.  25-30 Billion dollars worth of damage, and 175 mph winds.

Then, we headed over to downtown Miami Beach and walked the streets of South Beach for a while, mainly so Cooper could go to the store Dash, which is owned by the Kardashian sisters..  Not much there, for sure.

We ate at a very good pizzeria for lunch- then we headed on over to the American Airlines Arena, home of the Miami Heat, who of course aren't playing and may not play like the rest of the NBA this year.  We found a jersey and pants for Cooper, and I got a pin. 

From there, we still had time to kill, and decided to try to see the new Miami Marlins ballfield-  found it easy enough, it's right downtown, but it is still under major construction, so we couldn't access it.  Have to try again...

We're scheduled to go to a ballgame here on April 1st with an exhibition game between the Yankees and the Marlins. 

Then the highlight of the day/night- we had told Cooper we had a stadium tour lined up for the Miami Dolphins stadium- in fact, we had tickets for a Black Eyed Peas Concert!!  Also on the bill were Sean Kingston, T-Pain, Cee Lo Green, and a couple of others.  Wow- the Peas are some talent!  Each one of them had several turns to display their abilities through solos, and the group together was awesome. This was their "final" concert for a while- they are taking a break. 

Probably 40,000 folks there, it wasn't a total sellout, and we got perfect parking right out of the front gate.  Here's some jumbotron shots...

Today, we are vegging out, headed back over to Miami Beach, so Cooper can try the ocean, and then we'll find somewhere to have a Thanksgiving dinner..  Head for home tomorrow back to St Augustine.  It's been a perfectly super trip- nice campground, motor home in perfect working order, perfect weather, and lots of room for us all.  Life is good!!!!