Thanksgiving in Weston...A South Florida vacation

Nov 23-27, 2006

Florida was great fun...had a very non conventional vacation...since the guys who had booked our hotel put us up in a suburb of fort lauderdale called Weston. And if u are not driving which we are still not then u are pretty much stuck in weston. So i had gone all prepared with my swimming costume to soak in the sun on beaches in fort lauderdale and was stuck in a posh suburb called weston. But then life is full of surprises.....this small town had a charm of its own. We went to the local club of weston and had a full course thanksgiving lunch...my very first thanksgiving lunch with turkey and cranberry sauce and all...it was amazing even though i hated the taste of turkey...but the experience was awesome. All rich oldies were aorund us in their best of clothing and talking about gossip of the town. And by the way that wa s the only eating place open in weston that day so pretty much everyone who wanted to be out was there. So u had families with kids, the lonely casanova by the bar table, the golfers, and girlfreinds being introduced to the family and the pretty bartender girl who the casanova was trying to hit on.....and they were all spanish....oh i forgot to tell u it was a posh spanish dominated suburb.....i tried to evesdrop on the conversations around me to catch on some gossip> but i realised very soon that the reason i could not hear clearly was because they were talking in> spanish. So that was my thanksgiving in a very local style. the next day was pretty much spent in the vacation village. We had to go through this presentation (another con job we did not know about) ...u know> how these timeshare presentations are. The good part about it was that the guy drove us around weston and showed us the houses of rich and famous and boy they were beautiful...one was even oprah's ...not sure if it was true...But then we checked out soon as we told him that we really cannot afford to buy a timeshare in a place like this and we are here only for 12 months.... Evening we went down to the town center of Weston which was another surprise...it was straight out of those archie comics town centers where u have this courtyard with ten fifteen shops,a huge clock tower, the sheriff car was waiting around, kids on skate boards, dating and probbaly family approved dating happening, the corner icecream and corn stalls....it> was very cute....like a movie set or something. The next day we decided to check out and go to> downtown fort lauderdale even if it meant wasting some money. And we checked into a days inn...which was owned by none other than our desi bhai...b**** patel...and guess what we got a desi discount on the tariff. aint that cool. And we finally reached the beach and touched the waters of the atlantic ocean. Had lunch at the hooters...i was quite curious about it ....we went to this really interetsing pirate store which had skulls all around...vishy was quite enthu about buying a skull which i let him but with a promise that it will not stay in the house. Forgot to tell u that fort lauderdale is also called venice of america ...not sure by whom but it was written> all around...i guess because they have water ways all around town..so most houses can be either> accessed through road or by ur boat or if u are richer than by a yatch. So we took this cruise on> these waterways and saw some more houses of the rich> and famous....all in the range of 10-50 million dollars...and nobody lives in these houses coz mostly these guys come> here once a year or something. The shopping area of fort lauderdale was again very exclusive with all> expensive stores. We ate at a spaish restaurant by the beach which had live music and dancing. Everything was very posh. So that was my first vacation in the US and please dont even compare it with the miami's of the world coz this was an exclusive South Florida Vacation .

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