Today is my first day alone in Miami. Actually alone. Minus Tyson...
I have had a whirlwind of visitors since I got here, which took a lot out of me. Hotel Mia finally has some vacancy, and I have a lot of work to do. I have, however, been running around between different city buildings trying to get my drawings in the right hands so that my permits for Blo get expedited - so thankfully my guests were ok with a bit of tagging along.
This past weekend was definitely the most fun. I had a girlfriend staying with me, the most gracious/fun guest thus far, and we had a good dose of what people come to Miami for. Along the way I ran into so many people from Toronto, it was a bit scary.
It started on Thursday night, when I went out with a girl whom I met through mutual Toronto friends, who has a promotion company where she takes girls out and it's basically free food and drinks for ladies - and she makes money off that! So I walk over to Segafredo's, have some of my freebies, and then we go to the back where there is a club completely separate from the main bar/lounge area. We get to our booth and I run into 3 guys from Toronto! They are beginning their bachelor party weekend and know the same girl. Next thing you know I am leaving this club, my friend who lives in my building (former Torontonian) picks me up and we head to Ocean Ten, a huge bar/patio in South Beach. Of course we are meeting friends we know from Toronto who are in town for the weekend. One of the guys is talking about a bachelor party, and how his friends are in Miami too...and of course it's the same guys I saw an hour earlier!
Friday night, more friends from Toronto come in, and my friend Nicki came in on Saturday. That night we ended up at the club Set, with about 15 other Torontonians in a booth that cost the guys approx 6k!! Needless to say we partied like Rockstars! On top of that, I ran into my former co-worker there too! It was almost smothering!
Each day until yesterday had us sleeping on the beach every afternoon, and staying up til 6am every night! There was a bit of shopping in between...someone went home with Louboutins!! We even did our own Jersey shore tour, starting at the Gelato shop, to the Metropole hotel, UGG store, and tons of made up acronyms such as DTC or DWB! ;) Hehe try and guess....
We ended Nicki's stay with a very fun yet random night out. We started at the Clevelander for drinks and to watch the Miami Heat kick Chicago's butt in Game 4 of the eastern finals. After Patron shots and strong capirinhas we walked down Ocean and stopped for tons of pictures at the Versace mansion and the Loews hotel. Ben, A New Zealander staying there was taking our picture for us and he and his friend Ray ended up taking us for drinks at a sketchy place called Liquor Lounge. Guys were doing Karaoke to Akon as we walked in, then we convinced Ben & Ray (who we both swear is from Toronto) to do karaoke and they did a lame rendition of Better Man lol. Fun times didn't end there. Next we went to Louis Bar at the Gansevoort Hotel and danced the night away. Actually so hard that my peep toe shoe came apart and I was hanging on by a thread! Thanks to the tape from the bathroom attendant and Nicki's skills, I was back in action in no time.
Last night a scotch tape saved my life...
Did I mention my sister flies in next week? LOL
As you can see, there is no shortage of fun...but it can easily suck you in if you don't stay on track....so with that I head out to a meeting with the landlord and sort out the designs for my leased space.
Trading shots of tequila for shots of coffee....
xo
Fatima
