No more Peru (two thumbs up)

We've arrived in America! The place we were looking forward to for the good food, and widely spoken English. Well, one out of two isn't bad. Over 50% of the population in Miami speak Spanish to each other, which turned out to be helpful when i accidentally kept saying 'gracious' and 'si' to our waitress.

Our Art Deco hostel.　Turns out there are 100`s of these buildings and they are all hostels!

Miami was nice, lots of old art deco buildings, bars and fun places to see. Also lots of shops selling nice black basketball trainers and big tonged skate shoes, which are a complete weakness of mine. Since my shoes now have holes in the toes as well as holes in the souls, i am in need of a new pair. Xss and I have very different styles, and whilst i am not of the opinion that a girl should change herself to suit a guy, i do believe in dressing in a way that means your guy likes your appearance. Apparently Xss doesn't care so much for the 9 year old boy style i adhere to. So starting from now, i am going to try hard not to buy any boys (or men's) clothing. This will be a tall order for me, but I'm going to try. I know that some people log on here to read about my travels, but with so much time to think I'm almost more preoccupied with re-evaluating my life than i am with the ever changing world around me.

Since America is so much more expensive than other places we are going we decided to spend less days here. This has resulted in us trying to do as much as we have elsewhere, only in 3 days. In Florida this involves a day Miami (getting off the plan at 6am having not slept), next driving the 200 miles to Key west via the everglades, then Key West for the day before driving back and flying to Minnesota for Christmas (which we are very excited about).

Miami- South beach. Only saw it in the evening but the water was a lovely colour. Still nothing beats Morro de Sau Paulo in Brazil.

Everglade alligators, i know they are alligators because they have rounded snouts, are darker in colour (olive coloured skin) and their bottom teeth protrude outside their mouths as well as their top. National park information centres are so informative. It was hard to be that excited about the Everglades having just left the amazon. Pretty blase statements were easy to come by, `Parrots? we saw 40 last week and one sat on my arm`; `Do you remember when we were in that canoe the other day and Edgar pulled that baby alligator out the water for us to hold?`

Most overwhelmingly, everything here is in order. This flower bed blew me away, all neat and tidy, and our room was all clean, with UNLIMITED hot water, and a TV!! Its wonderful to be in a place again where we can understand a menu and ask questions about things.　It was nice to see Peru, but i wont be returning.