An early start as we had to pack and go, we managed to get out by 10 ish and hit the road towards Key Largo, stopping off at Walmart to treat the kids to the American shopping experience.

Rebecca was shocked by the size of the juice containers, food packaging and the unexpected items you normally get such as fishing gear, snorkelling gear and items like machetes!!

After several hours, we walked out with snorkelling gear, food and fishing rods!!

Fast forward a hour or so. We are in Key Largo, we managed to check in to the apartment early and headed out to sort out some activities.

Tony & Rebecca booked a diving excursion for tomorrow and William & I will tag along for the boat ride. William for snorkelling and I will just be a passenger.

We also booked an eye watering expensive deep sea fishing expedition for Thursday, apparently we can keep some catch for dinner and most restaurants around can cook it up for you.

We finally headed back to the apartment and since we bypassed breakfast and lunch, we went to a cafe opposite. It was an interesting place, next to the water front there were some amazing wildlife in the waters, pelicans, sharks, fishes and even manatees!!

We even stroked the manatees, it was such an experience. they were very gentle.

After a lovely selection of food of lobster bites, coconut Shrimps, conch fritters and chowder soup. I had a lovely refreshing crazy lady beer (and a 2nd) to wash it down.

The kids then got some raw fish bits to feed the wild sharks and there was so many of them! Certainly don’t want to be swimming in the waters.

A late start as all the sun, walking and late nights seem to have caught up with us.

We ventured downtown to Lincoln Road, stopping at a few places en route. I managed to pick up some shorts from Zara and Mango.

Rebecca picked up a bargain stash at Forever21 due to a closing store. She got some lovely cowboy boots, hoodie and puffy gilet for $45.

We caught up with some friends from back home for a lovely Cuban lunch (who happened to be in Miami at the same time). The kids enjoyed having their friends to hang out with for a few hours.

Jane and I managed to get a pitcher of white sangria, we assumed it was just white wine. However, it was also laced with peach schnapps and brandy. It was a lovely cocktail.

After lunch, we carried on Lincoln Road for some more mooching before retreating back to the hotel on the free trolley bus. We hit the beach for the last few hours of our last afternoon/evening of Miami Beach.

We decided to have our last dinner in the hotel, lovely food and 2 for 1 cocktails.

A struggle to get out of bed but we managed to drag our feet out the door by 10am.

We stopped off at a KFC en route to the zoo for some brunch, surprisingly the chicken sandwiches were very good and the kids loved the chicken tenders.

We got in to the zoo and was so surprised how big it was, sadly the cycle buggies were all reserved and booked up.

We managed to see some exotic animals such as the American Bald Eagle, Harpy Eagle, Florida panther, Australian Tree Kangeroos and Belizian Jaguar (which Tony and I tried to find on our safari many years ago).

Rebecca loved the frozen drinks, with lots of refills!

The park itself is great and landscaped extremely well. William was grateful of the numerous refillable water stations and water mists everywhere, plus very odd frozen bananas!

Unfortunately, the koalas were relocated to San Francisco zoo as they were unable to sustain the eucalyptus supply.

After a long day of walking, we retreated back to the hotel pool bar and hit tub. Tony took some time out to doze in the room.

We went out for dinner with the kids but it was marred by salty dishes and a disagreement over the service.