Florida: Day 6 of the total of 8 days

We got up, did the traditional stuff (father and sister bathing, then eating breakfast), and headed out for what I had looked most forward to of the entire trip.... The Everglades. Originally we were supposed to be in Miami for 2 days and everglades for 2 days. That of course turned into 3,5 days in Miami and a daytrip to Everglades so more shopping could be done (oh the aggravation). However when we got there, we discovered that the Lonely Planet book could hardly have been more wrong then it was. There was not really a visitors center, no lodging (didn't matter anymore as we were daytripping, but still), no nothing. Why? Because of some very severe storms in late 2005 (you probably remember them) which had destroyed the small town of Flamingo inside The Everglades. So we took a few photographs on the way out and headed for Miami. But Lady Fortune found us and turned us towards an alligator farm, where I took plenty of photographs of the alligators and crocodiles and other assorted animals. We catched an alligator show with an almost suicidal alligator handler (highly entertaining) and then headed out for a VERY entertaining ride on an air boat, with a really funny "driver" called James. That was the best thing so far (the show and the ride), far better then the snorkeling or any of that other tedious stuff, such as my annoying and rude father, the mindless shopping and the driving. After this endeavour we did head back to Miami and checked into a really cool "preserved and historic" building which was actually a hotel in the most perfect of Art Deco style with really neat doorkeys, they look like small SD cards embedded into a normal black plastic keyholder. Being that it was late and we had not eaten lunch, we settled for some "early-ish" dinner, where I had some sort of delicious meat, as did my father, and my sister had pasta. I went to bed quite early, and very exhausted. This same day I also finished "Hitching Rides with Buddha" by Will Ferguson, the second-most entertaining book ever written. I am terribly sorry Mr. Ferguson, but the funniest book ever written is The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy saga (all 5 books together). But the book written by Mr. Ferguson is a book about his travels hitchhiking from the southernmost point to the northernmost point of Japan... GREAT reading, extremely funny.