August 2023 Miami, Florida Vacation. Day 6: Chill Day and "Haunted Mansion" (2023) Movie Screening
Vložit
- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- On this day, August 8th, 2023, I began the first half of my day with my own solo activity, and then, saw the movie, "Haunted Mansion" (the new 2023 version) with my Dad and Isabella. The first half of the day went smoothly, nut the second half...didn't really go as entirely planned by me.
The day began with me waking up, doing my morning routine, having a homecooked breakfast, and as my dad left earlier that morning for court duties, I got dressed, and left the house. Since I was no longer going to Dr. Wendy's office to visit her since she got sick with COVID-19, I decided on taking the public bus over to the "Barnes and Noble" bookstore over on Miracle Mile in Coral Gables. However, upon me walking over to where the buss stop was, I still missed the bus, so I requested and took a "Lyft" over to the bookstore instead.
Upon arrival at the area of the bookstore, I went inside, walked around a bit, read some books, browsed some movie DVDs, and even had a snack and drink from the "Starbucks Coffee" shop inside the bookstore itself. Needless to say, it more than made up for the fact that I couldn't visit Dr. Wendy anymore.
I then left the bookstore a while later, and after walking around Miracle Mile for a bit, I finally found the designated bus stop for the bus I needed to take back home. After a while, the bus arrived, I scanned my specials "STS" (Special Transportation Services) card, and sat down, getting plenty of the footage as the bus took me all the way back home. It was my first time on a Miami-Dade County public bus since August 2019, before I moved to Davenport, Florida. The bus got me to the street near my home, and I got off, and walked back to the house.
Once back home, I had a homemade lunch, and relaxed around for a bit. A while later, my dad come back home from his duties, with a Key Lime Pie, since he went down to Key West to help out a client and stuff. I didn't have any since I'm not a fan of key lime pies. :(
Then, our day wasn't over yet, as we had plans to see the 3:50pm showing of the movie "The Haunted Mansion" (the 2023 version) at the local "AMC Sunset Place" movie theater complex located with in the "Sunset Place" mall complex.
We then got ready, I prepared my bookbag stuff, and then we all got in the car, and made our way to the "Sunset Place" mall complex. Upon arrival, we parked in the parking garage complex, and made our way into the mall complex itself. We went into the "AMC Sunset Place" movie theater, went to the front desk, and via my "AMC Theaters" app, picked up our tickets for the movie.
However...this was the main negative part of the trip, starting with the fact that we arrived 10 minutes late into the movie, so I missed the first minutes of the movie, and that wasn’t good, considering that film was on my list of movies I wanted to see in 2023. Also, towards the end of the movie, Isabella began dipping her finger in a cup of water she had, and began flicking the water onto the floor, and some of it splashed onto my leg, annoying me.
Dad could see my frustration on my face, but did nothing to stop it. After the movie ended, we all left, and I told my dad I wasn’t very happy with the situation. After talking about it a bit, we came to an agreement that after tomorrow’s activities, he’d let me see the movie again on my own, so I can get the experience I was supposed to get. I agreed to it and he even bought me the ticket online in advance via my “AMC” app on my phone.
Then, in the evening, it was dinnertime, and dad let us choose our dinners this time. I chose to get "Subway", and there was a place I knew all too well about...about 10 minutes away from dad's house on food was the "Nicklaus Children's Hospital", and inside was a "Subway" restaurant. Dad gave me the money, and I walked all the way to the hospital. I went inside, and went all the way to the "Subway" within it. For my dinner, I chose a toasted 1-foot-long sandwich on white Italian bread, with salami, ham, bacon, Swiss cheese, and honey mustard.
I got the sandwich along with a bag of 3 chocolate chip cookies to go, and after paying for it, I went to the hospital'' regular cafeteria next door, and I purchased a regular-sized bag of "Lay's BBQ" chips. I then left the hospital, and walked all the way back to dad's house. Once back inside, I gave dad the change, and began eating my dinner at the kitchen table.
After dinner, I did my nighttime routine, and got ready for bed, because tomorrow was the FINAL full day in Miami, Florida of my week-long vacation.
Stay tuned for more videos like this!