Trip to Miami was a grand experience, featuring ...
- Snorkeling trip
- Badia Spices tour
- Science museum
- World Cup soccer - Argentina versus Cape Verde
- Hanging out with cousins
Day 1: Travel / Arrival
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RJ in the Miami airport. He was frustrated by the lack of coconuts ...
but we got hand-picked mangos!
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Day 2: Snorkeling / Cousins
Sara and the kids enjoyed a snorkeling trip with the Martins to the reef off
John Pennekamp National Park.
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Prep for the snorkeling trip
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Elevator on the way to dinner at Donna's or South Beach Club?
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Day 3: Spice Factory / USA Soccer
Kids went into the activity with a typical teen-age level of interest. Once
they hit the production line the level of interest changed.
Julia and Doug fixated on the machine that puts paper on the top of pallets.
RJ was pretty amazed with the entire process. Sara's business side came out
and she peppered (no spice pun intended) Robert from Tech Group with
questions.
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Production line at Badia
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Warehouse at Badia
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Watching USA vs Bosnia game at Aunt Donna's later at night
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Day 4: Science Center / Group Dinner
Frost Museum of Science was interactive and entertaining. We did a film in the
planetarium, watched the fish in the aquariums, and stayed much later than we
should have without eating lunch. Doug and Tom broke off to read lots of stuff
and geek out.
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Never under-estimate how fun it is to watch fish, sharks, rays, and a
turtle
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Trip to science museum was fun and interactive.
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Day 5: World Cup
We routed against Spain in the group stage so our World Cup experience would
feature a good game between Spain and Argentina. Instead we got Cape Verde
versus Argentina.
But Cape Verde was a LOT better than we (and 60,000 Argentina fans) would have
liked! We ALMOST got to see one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history ...
but Argentina got a late goal and held on for a 3-2 win.
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Team USA photo earlier in the day.
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We arrived early to take advantage of a world class spread (sushi,
steak, plus more!)
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Prior to the game RJ shook is finger at the VAR review box. We were still
bitter from the Croatia loss to Portugal.
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The Johnson's and Martin's pre-game photo
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Our entire crew during the welcome event
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View from our seats ... pretty sweet!!
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RJ and Julia in the 'alternate' seats - front row
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Day 6: Travel Home
After a 12:30am bedtime following the game we were awakened at 3:30am to get to
the airport. Ugh.
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In addition to the 6-7 stuffed stowaways, Julia got another Squishmallow
on the trip. Here we are in Atlanta
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Caiden, RJ, Jett in the ATL airport after 2 hours of sleep
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