4th of July....and we're not in Miami

It's not very often that we get a Friday off......well like NEVER!  This 4th of July happened to fall on a Friday so we decided on Tuesday that we were going to take off somewhere.  Any where.

After much searching the specials and deals (and changing our minds 3 or 4 times), we decided on Miami/Fort Lauderdale.  There is a multitude of reasons why we chose this destination and it's been on our bucket list for awhile.

The reservations were made and we were to fly out of Houston at 8:10.  We get up bright and early (5am) and check our flight and find out it was cancelled.  What?!?!?!?!  We spent 2 hours on the phone and internet trying to get another flight.....no such luck.  US Airways made the decision that we were not going to leave until 7:10am the next morning.  Bad decision US Airways.

Well since we were already packed for vacation and since we were really ticked off that we were still stuck in Houston until the next day......we were going to go out and make lemonade with the lemons we were dealt with.

We loaded up the car and headed to our first stop.......lunch at The Counter Burger. 

Loved the burgers and loved the way we could order it exactly the way we wanted it.  It was a delicious way to start the day.......although we would have preferred it if we were in Miami like we were supposed to!

Next stop was to check into our hotel.  We used one of our free nights and got a hotel next to the airport. 

We got lucky and found the pool empty except for another couple and we spent the afternoon lying in the sun, reading, splashing, and watching the huge planes taking off from the airport.  Yeah.....the ones that looked like they weren't going to get high enough to make it over the hotel.

I think my husband looks adorable in my hat......don't you?

Dinner was trying out a pizza place about 15 minutes from the hotel.  So we got dressed and headed over to get some Pink's pizza!

The decision was made to get to bed early since we had to get up early again and fly out early (or hopefully fly out).  The hotel was nice and quiet and we didn't have to listen to fireworks shooting off at all hours of the night like we would have from our house.

Hopefully......we would catch a plane to Miami tomorrow!