Today we celebrated our Independence Day by disembarking our five day cruise early in the morning. We hardly had time to enjoy the ship one last time. We had breakfast and then we were ready for Miami once again. Fortunately for us this time it was not raining or overcast. For lunch we decided to visit our favorite restaurant in Miami (and the only one we have ever visited when in town) Bongos. It is a Cuban food restaurant owned by Gloria and Emilio Estefan. We had the traditional moros, yucca and all the other great food that Cubans know how to elaborate. Although quiet in the daytime, we could tell that the place comes alive at night. We of course did not care since we were there for the food. We also took a tour of the famous "calle ocho" which is where all the Cuban and Latin American merchants are.
We concluded our day by walking just a few short blocks from our downtown hotel to Bayfront Park, downtown Miami. One of our favorite things to do is to watch the 4th of July fireworks over a body of water, which we got to do! The weather was Perfect! The View was awesome! Everything, until...a young Spanish speaking male came and started narrating it all for us. That in it by itself would not have been a problem, however, most of what he would say was "boom, boom, boom! to which we naturally felt like responding: "OK we heard, we don't need your eloquent narration! I guess Perfection was too good to last, and I must be reminded that we are "The Home of the FREE!"
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