South Beach

Laurel and I are in South Beach (Miami) right now. We arrived last night sans luggage and our hotel didn't actually have our reservation. I called expedia and they said that I never clicked 'reserve', but my itinerary from them says that I was 'reserved for late check in' and the hotel was on it the itinerary, why would you put the hotel on the itinerary if it wasn't actually part of your itinerary? Fuckers. So, that hotel was full so we couldn't stay there. But the guy in the lobby was really helpful and got us a reservation with a very similar hotel just down the street. In fact, we're staying a block away from my dad's old apartment in South Point (the southern tip of South Beach). It's a really nice hotel. What I think is great is that I'm sitting in my bed with my Powerbook surfing the web while Laurel takes a nap. The last time I was in Miami two years ago I would have had to goto an internet cafe to check my email, which probably wasn't worth doing. But Wifi is so standard now that I just expected it to work when I turned my computer on. That's so amazing. This hotel didn't need to install expensive cat-5 in the walls, they just put a cheap-ass LinkSys wireless router in the lobby. They don't even advertise it, it's just there.