Day 14 - Fort Lauderdale

After a trip we always like to have a rest day or maybe just a local day.

Today we got up later and breakfasted before deciding to go to Fort Lauderdale beach. In the end we decided on a river boat trip from Las Olas.

The trip is 90 minutes up the New River and as far a Port Everglades and then back looking at the expensive river side houses of the likes of Wendy of burger fame, Sunglass Hut, Alamo car rental to name a few. And Leonard Nimoy's house behind the Hyatt 66 hotel.

The hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

After the boat trip we had lunch in an Oirish pub right on the riverfront.

You can sit in the shaded front and watch the boats go by and through the draw bridge nearby.

It was on the return boat trip that Claire's camera started to play up. Taking pix but showing an error.

We used the wifi to locate a Walmart and we set off.  I thought if we could buy a cheap micro SD card and adapter we could save the 600 plus pix she had taken and she would have one to use.

In the end Walmart came up with an 8gb card for $9.98.

On the way through the seedier parts of Fort Lauderdale that TomTom considered perfectly okay for overseas tourists the outside temperature reached 102F, the hottest shown on the car's gauge.

Once the cameras were fixed and pix copied to the netbook it was time for dinner.

TomTom took us to an Aussie themed steakhouse called Outback. Excellent steaks and a starter of an onion basket rather than rings...

I had a beer called Shock Top. A bit like Belgian white beers but far weirder and with that strange chemical taste common to American lite beers.

Not too pogged when we drove home to Mizner and an early night as we had to be up early to finish packing and clear up for our drive across to Fort Myers.