Notes from Miami Beach
Posted on Sunday, February 12th, 2006 at 11:40 am
- Traveling with a toddler is not recommended if it can be avoided. Some of the downsides:
- Naptime means always eating takeout for lunch, and sometimes for dinner as well because everyone is so tired
- The hotel room isn’t designed to be childproof, and your toddler doesn’t have the knowledge she’s gained at home about what is appropriate to touch and what isn’t.
- Heading out to the convenience store twice a day for milk, since the hotel doesn’t have a refrigerator.
- Both coming and going, the flight intersected Maggie’s normal sleep times. This made the travel unduly stressful, for both parents and her.
- February is a mixed-bag in terms of time to travel to Miami. It wasn’t crowded, but temperatures were mostly in the low 70s except for the last day. This week they’re seeing temps in the 60s so the trip could have been worse.
- Restaurants in Miami Beach were generally expensive and not terribly interesting. Part of this was due to our lack of choices — there are many fancy restaurants where taking a toddler or getting takeout was not an option. We were staying right next door to Emeril’s restaurant but couldn’t go.
Seeing how many people were eating at a particular place wasn’t a good gauge for how good the food was; in fact, the two most-crowded places we went had the most mediocre food. Come to think of it, that can be true of several of the “chain” restaurants around here…
Two good places we ate: Miss Yip Chinese Cafe, a local chain serving authentic Chinese food, and San Loco, a “cheap eats” Mexican place and highly recommended.
- The Super Bowl isn’t very popular among the Latino population; we thought that restaurants wouldn’t be very crowded on Super Bowl Sunday, but they were all doing great business, without a single TV in sight. My guess is that the World Cup might be more of a draw.
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