Post 9: I'm in Miami bitch!

James was willing to host me and agreed on picking me up from the airport in Fort Lauderdale. Very friendly guy that housed me for 4 nights. Together with 1 other CS we went to bars and took turns to make food every night. After my little adventure in the Caribbian I wanted to make some money. Since I had to wait for my friend to fly in from Belgium I had all the time in the world. I could use James' bike to go look for jobs but without success. On my way back to his place I wanted to try 1 more and bam! Bike stolen... haha! Jesus! They cut the chain and took off.. I felt horrible and so damn guilty! didn't know what to tell him but had plenty of time to think about that while I was walking back home for the next 2 hours, haha! :p

James took it really well! He was laughing about it and told me it ok. Such things happen here all the time, unfortunately. Give this guy a medal! I don't know about you but I don't know a lot of people that would give me that reaction. Anyways on our last night we went for a beer, or 10 :p. During my trip I was never as drunk as that night. I won big time from him playing an American game, he kept on buying me beers and I wanted to do something back. So on our way home we passed a pizza joint that seemed open. It was already 11:30 PM so on a sober day I wouldn't even have tried, but conveniently this kitchen help came out and I asked him for a pizza. They were sold out and kept on talking to the guy resulting in 2 free pizzas! Hahah!! He probably just wanted to get rid of us, but we ended up with free food.

It was time for me to leave and found a new host further down to Miami. I had to go since my friend' plane will be landing on Saturday at Miami International. Tory, the new host, I can't even begin to discribe what an incredibly warm hearted person that man is. An ex - marine with so much energy that you just cannot be grumpy around that guy. He takes you on his cloud and makes your day. I told him about my trip and from the second I was done he started cooking, hahaha! He wanted to feed me and told he was gonna take care of food for me during the rest of my stay it him. I could take whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. Damn this guy! What a great human being. I stayed with him for Thanksgiving which was also my very first one. A small detail he forgot to mention was that on thanksgiving he was the host of this CS event at his house, hosting 30 people :D haha!!! I told him about my cooking degree and helped cooking the turkeys (indeed there were 2!). The thing was that thanksgiving started between 2-4 PM, everyone started drinking and it stopped at around midnight. Speaking of a party! :D drunken people were present, even more drunken CS were but man did we have fun!!

On that same party I met 2 Polish and a German girl. The 2 Polish girls were also traveling around and on their way to South - America, whereas the German girl lived/worked in the States. We had a blast!! Thanksgiving was over and the next day was walking day for me. 20 km further south I was supposed to be staying with a CS. On my way to his place my shoulders were killing me! I has to find a solution so I did! ;D hahahaha! There was a very good looking  object pulling me towards it. It was love at first sight..  hopping together further down hand in hand my shopping cart and I reached our destination, hahaha!! Only downside was that the host stood me up. I waited for an hour and still nobody came. So I called Tory and explained what happened. Of course I could stay with him, he said! :) only it wou take him 2 hours to get there and had to keep myself busy. No problem, that was the least of my concerns. Suprisingly the German girl (Janna) popped up after 2 hours and told me I was gonna stay with her. Together with the other 2 Polish girls we stayed at her place for the next 5 days. My man.. her apartment was like a suite in a hotel. The towels were folded, shampoo and soap bottles in the bathroom, a plastic toothbrush and toothpaste.. haha I felt like a king! Her condo came with a shared pool, gym, pool table and a big lake with nice fountains. Amazing! One thing we did was visiting a neighbourhood where graffiti was legal.. just beautiful!! What a piece of art that area is (pictures on FB)

Still I needed a job.. thru a public event on CS asking if someone had some small jobs for me 1 guy replied and agreed on helping me out. I ended up painting a house and 100 dollars richer in 2 days. The last day he gave me money for the bus cuz he didn't have time to drop me back off at Janna'. There was no way I was gonna spent money on transportation! So I put the 10 dollars in my pocket and started walking. It was only a 2 hour walk anyways. Boy did I regret that decision! Haha! After 30 minutes it started pouring rain! It felt like they were pouring buckets of water over me every second! Hahaha! I had to keep going but man I have never seen that much rain! Not even in Guatemala! I was soaking wet! Haha! Actually felt amazing, I love rain! Makes you feel fresh again..

Janna was more than happy to house me until my friend comes over. So I'll be staying here until Monday. What we will do next is still a mystery but I'm sure it's gonna be great!

Have fun on your journeys the next week and you know it, whish me luck with a smile (thanks Gee!!) ;)

Greets,
Lenn