Its hard to figure out how to celebrate a kid's birthday when you are already on vacation. We decided (after seeing one yesterday) to take the kids on one of those family bikes (called a surrey). However, when looking them up we were surprised to find they werent really at a lot of the beaches in the area! They were at the beach yesterday, but we wanted to try something new today. So we found one at a smaller beach on an island off Miami called Key Biscayne.
We were pretty surprised when we pulled up to find that the grounds were pretty wrecked. Unmaintaind and closed buildings, trashed bathrooms, caution tape. We hesitated going at all. BUT, we had no other plan. So ... we pursued.
We rented the bike and drove it around. It was HARD work. Also, the area we could ride through was pretty small, so we ended up just circling around for a while. The rental was for an hour but we were exhausted after probably thirty minutes. We turned in the bike early ;)
We then hung at the beach for a while, which actually was a really lovely beach. The benefit of this area was that it was on a bay. The water was calm, shallow and warm. Basically the opposite of the cold and rough water on the open ocean yesterday.
After hanging for a bit we headed out for a birthday treat at the Sugar Factory in South Beach.
Two of the shakes included a cupcake with candles. Brooke wanted to order one of them, but Luke insisted that hers could NOT have a candle on it. She obliged. The waiter brought Lukes shake over with the candle lit, and the waiter and another staff member sang to him. He was thrilled.
Turned out to be a pretty decent birthday after all.
