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Miami or BUST!

August 24, 2016 10 Comments

miamiSometimes my life is so ordinary that it is embarrassing. The fact that I write a blog about anything is amazing, amusing, and confusing. I just made macaroni salad, with boiled eggs, celery, and mayonnaise just for myself. Fixed a diet coke and rented a movie that cost $5.99 on demand and it’s 11:30 in the morning! I’m babysitting Chauncey and Stoli, two golden retrievers that are as happy as I am that I have nothing better to do. I consider this a perfect day…and I am the only person I know that would dare admit this…. Right?

But every now and then I get the obscure chance to have the most exciting, unexpected, unplanned turn of events, and decide to go nutzo crazy, in a good way…. when a regular day becomes an extraordinary day… and it wasn’t even marked on the calendar as such! A precious moment in time, when you are watching the world move swiftly past, and you are the “extra” playing the unspoken role in the movie of your own life. Reasonably more exciting than the mid morning movie I rented.

In this scene, not a dream, I was sitting on a swivel pool side bar stool, in the 5 o’clock sun, at the Foutainebleau on Miami Beach, Florida. Mesmerized! It all started with my monthly trip to Florida to visit family and friends. It was a sizzling ordinary Wednesday. I’m digging into my fried grouper fingers and fries under a tiki hut at the quietest place on the Gulf of Mexico, when my sister realizes she needed to expedite an expired passport for a trip she was taking out of the country soon. By the time I poured a cup of coffee on Thursday my sister, my friend Libby, and I were headed straight across Alligator Alley to South Beach, Miami. Upon arrival, I was instantaneously enthralled and captivated by the strangest, most alluring people on the planet.

The script went exactly like this…. pretty girl is sitting next to us at the bar. She orders a virgin pina colada. She tells us she lives in California, and she is a PA for an oncologist. She’s charming.  Her best friend is a doctor in the area. She came to Miami to meet up and then hook up with this Dr. friend of 8 years. She traveled from the Pacific to the Atlantic as she is ready to conceive a child, and this kind gentleman has volunteered!  She will stay in Ca., and he will remain in Fl. Fascinating conversation don’t you think! Even I couldn’t have written a story that great!

After cruising Ocean Drive and getting a glimpse of the Versace Mansion, I found myself lunching at the exquisite Delano Hotel, where only exquisite people stay. So people like me can stare. A place where it is mandatory to be beautiful…. or famous….or sublime to book a room. I’m sure if we had inquired they would have thrown the NO VACANCY sign right over the billowing transparent gauzy white curtain. It was breathtaking.

and Saturday by 5 o’clock…I was HOME taking a breath!

 

Comments

  1. Carole Roberts says

    August 24, 2016 at 8:49 pm

    You really DO live an exciting life, Tracy!! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • Tracy Gaines says

      August 25, 2016 at 7:40 am

      Blessed, Lucky, Exciting, Boring…I’ll take them all.

      Reply
  2. Andrea Gilbert says

    August 24, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Mundane making of macaroni salad with boiled eggs to viewing the Versace mansion—girl, what a story!!!

    Reply
    • Tracy Gaines says

      August 25, 2016 at 7:38 am

      Andrea I would travel everyday if I could! And some places you only need to see once and some you can’t get enough of. I love that I live closest to the places I can’t get enough of!

      Reply
  3. Mary Neail says

    August 25, 2016 at 10:24 am

    Beautiful, Tracy! Keep them coming!

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    • Tracy Gaines says

      August 29, 2016 at 9:33 am

      Hi Mary…Hopefully Denise will keep “them coming” as well!
      You know as well as I do…You can’t have a better “girl trip” than with a sister!
      Tell Pat Hi!!!!!

      Reply
  4. Jan Rosenthal says

    August 25, 2016 at 3:11 pm

    u are a great an interesting writer—I felt I was right there with u doing all those exciting things

    Reply
    • Tracy Gaines says

      August 29, 2016 at 9:29 am

      Thanks Jan…Sometimes I lucky enough to go somewhere or share an event that makes me HAVE to tell the tale! Happy to share and happier you are reading my blogs!

      Reply
  5. Karen says

    September 16, 2016 at 8:32 am

    Fun one Tracy! It does help that you have a globetrotting sister!!

    Reply
    • Tracy Gaines says

      September 16, 2016 at 10:40 am

      I KNOW…SO TRUE! Right?

      Reply

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Tracy Gaines My job is to have a good time every day. So I try to plan a lot of trips and parties with family and friends as often as I can. I will drive 10 hours to have a glass of wine with "the girls"! I enjoy the challenge of a long hike or bike ride from time to time, but a bottle of wine, and spending time … [Read More...]

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