Visit Harper's Ferry and Start of Florida Vacation

Atejade: 27.05.2018

The next week was just normal and on the weekend I went to Harper's Ferry in West Virginia with a friend. We actually didn't spend much time in the actual town, but went hiking in Maryland, because Harper's Ferry is right at the border to Virginia and Maryland. The week after that Molly stayed home and we hung out together with Gerry. During the first week I had a couple of my depressed hours. I really don't know what that is about, but it always gives me this strong feeling about wanting to go back to Germany immediately.

The following Saturday my journey to Florida started. Flight to Fort Lauderdale, where we took a Lyft to Miami Beach and spend the rest of the day at the beach. In the evening we went out for dinner and walked around. The next day we went to Miami itself and visited the Wynwood Walls, Little Havana, the Harbor and walked around the city. Monday morning we left as early as possible to drive to Orlando passing West Palm Beach on the way. We arrived in Orlando late afternoon and spend an hour at Aquatica, the waterpark. The next day we had a day in Discovery Cove to swim with Dolphins, go snorkeling and enjoy. We went into Sea World for another hour after that. The next day, Wednesday, we went to Universal to visit Island of Adventure. Mainly because of the Harry Potter world in it. We stayed there way too long considering that we had a 3 hour drive to Fort Myers after that. We got to Fort Myers at around 3.30 am.

Little conclusion after these five days. Miami Beach was really nice, but it was not as beautiful as the beaches on Fuerteventura, so kind of disappointing for me. Miami itself was kind of as expected. The Aquatica waterpark was awesome, Discovery Cove was a nice little world created in the middle of Orlando but the dolphin swim was disappointing because the actual swim was really short, just a couple seconds. Still, it was an overall great experience. The snorkeling was really nice there. Over all it was too little time to see Discovery Cove, Aquatica, and Sea World. The day at Universal was nice, but I expected more cool roller coasters. The Harry Potter World was nice, but it made me realize that it's absolutely not true, which of course I knew but it's different.

This might sound like I didn't enjoy it, but I did. Best experience of my life, I would guess.

Idahun

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