Eating at a Salvadorian Restaurant & Running Into a Rain Storm in Miami

 

We have travelled extensively in the US, having visited both the east coast numerous times and to the west coast years ago a few times when our son was studying in the State of Connecticut.

 United States is a vast country made up of fifty states with diverse landscapes and weather patterns. So far we have had experienced the American culture only until our recent visit to the city of Miami.

One of the pleasant things we discovered on our trip to Miami - the vibrant subcultures existed in this beautiful city. 

Just within blocks of our hotels, we have experienced the Cuban culture in Little Havana for the past two days.

Today, we went for brunch at a Salvadorian restaurant.

This restaurant also sells many interesting gadgets

We ate at this restaurant the first day we landed in Miami and we liked it so much that we took E. with us for a brunch.

After we sat down on the patio and ordered our food, we were enjoying this relaxing time and having a nice conversation. Suddenly, strong winds and rain started coming down heavily, blowing our cutlery, napkins and some plates off the tables.

We had to move inside and finished our brunch there. We sat and waited for the wind and rain to die down.  We couldn't even talk to E. during the brunch.  

We experienced a tropical rainstorm in Miami

 We waited for almost thirty minutes and it was still raining cats and dogs.  We decided to call a Uber and went back to our hotel which was only about a 5-7 minute ride. But we couldn't believe our eyes as the heavy rain kept pouring down.

In a matter of after raining for about 30 minutes,  some of the roads were flooded with water coming up as high as half of the height of the wheels. Our driver had to make a few detours navigating himself carefully not to get the vehicle stuck on flooded streets.

Wow! I could just imagine the power of the tropical rainstorms here in Florida. We have heard and seen so often some parts of Florida being devastated by tropical torrential rainstorms. This time we experienced just a tiny small part of it.   We should never underestimate the power of nature!

After getting back to our hotel and rested for a little while, both my husband and our son went for a baseball game at the stadium to cheer on our beloved Blue Jays team from Toronto. I  was happy to have some downtime by myself while the father and son could have their bonding time at the Jays baseball game!

Little Havana, Miami

Today was the Juneteenth Day in the US, a new national holiday celebrating freedom and the slaves being free in America. I never heard of Juneteenth day until this time. Love travelling as we can learn some new things wherever we go!

  RT, Day 3

 Miami, Florida