I'm in Miami Bit$&.........

I was lucky enough to spend the last 10 days in sunny, beautiful Florida. While it was raining cats and dogs here in Utah I was living it up in the sunshine state! When I wasn't working of course ;).

I spent the first 2 days working the Miami beauty show which was.... um.... interesting. It was the first year of this show and to be as kind as possible... it wasn't what we would call a "success".

I did learn a lot about other cultures while in Miami... apparently there are several kinds of Cubans. There are black ones, white ones and apparently Asian ones?? Wow...  I felt like I grew up in a bubble!

After this show ended Simone and I drowned our sorrows in the sun. We went to Hollywood beach.... which in a few words can be described as heaven on EARTH!!! It felt like I walked into a painting. The water is clear, turquoise and blue.... you can't see where the ocean ends and the sky begins!

After spending a GLORIOUS day at the beach I asked Simone to fulfill a wish of mine.... take me to see gators!!!!!! Yes, I have a love, fear, fascination with Alligators. Yes, I know they would snap me like a twig blah blah blah... but how can I not respect a creature like this that dates back to the dinosaurs and survived extinction so these animals are obviously smarter than I am.

I was both scared as hell and super excited to see the gators. It was like a little kid on Christmas hoping for a new Xbox or something.

This is Bob the gator. Our tour guide personally rescued and raised this amazing creature after he was nearly killed by a poacher. Bob now lives in the Everglades and as soon as he hears the tour guides voice he comes right up to him. It was AWESOME!!! Not going to lie... I wanted to hug Bob... he was like a big ole scaly puppy. Again, YES I know he would eat me. So after the tour we watched the "Gator Show" The "Gator Wrestler" was um.... HOTT! Not sure what his name was but he had a Boston accent and a nice manly physique. It also didn't hurt that he worked with gators..... Be still my beating heart.

After this show I paid $5 to hold and take pictures with Wally the gator.... and gave him a smoochy. Yes, I may be a little "crazy".....

After the glades and a couple days at the beach this Twilight pale chika actually got a tan!! According to Simones' Cuban friend Ilene I could pass for Cuban now ;)

My name is Samiee.... I am addicted to technology..

I was without the wonders of my laptop for 3... count them 3 days!! For someone that uses their laptop a lot for communication and what not this was an eternity. I never realized being without my computer would have me feeling so lost... maybe this is because I have renewed my addiction to beauty blogs.... I blame my new job :).

The reason for this separation?? A nasty, nasty NASTY virus called Windows Recovery. Completely took over my computer and made it un-use able. So I took it to the uncle of a friend and voila it has been restored! Literally.... My system had to be wiped clean. We where able to back up a lot of my pictures which are what is most important to me..... besides my beagle, family, friends and my makeup ;)

Phonetically I am correct...... Sorry Michigan

Detroit was a blast! I was working a show just outside of Detroit called Novi ( I called in Novee and ppl mocked me) It is pronounced Nov-eye. There is also a large chain of stores called Meijer which is pronounced Myer. I pronounced it MeJeeer.. Phonetically I am correct.

While in Ann Arbor checking out the U of M campus there was this little restaurant.... and what was is it called???? GRANGE!!! how fricken cool is that? So I may have held up traffic so I could take this picture.... totally worth it too...

Ok so I am done going on about how I pronounce things. Yes, I have a pet peeve about it. This show was the Michigan International Women's show. I am still wondering why "International" is in the title but whatev's. It was a decent show! Jenna Bush spoke about her UNICEF work and promoted her new book which was cool. As well the Novi firefighters where there raising money by doing a "fashion show". Not going to lie... after listening to Matt "the man whore" ogle girls it was nice to see some hot fellas strut the stage while women hoot and hollered