miami trip

i'm in miami biaaaatch~  

gawd, first off, can i just say...  traveling to miami from hawaii SUCKS.  there's no direct flight, you're traveling to the other side of the united states of america, literally.  and it took a total traveling hours of ten to twelve hours (i lost count).  i left home at 10:45am wednesday.  i got to miami at 6:30am thursday.  i'm in miami for "business" - really.  it is a lot of eating and drinking, but lucky for me, that's my job!  roy is a participating chef for the south beach wine & food festival and i'm here to check out how things are done on a grander scale.  hoping to take some ideas back for our hawaii food & wine festival coming up in september.

this is the first sign i see as i walk out of my terminal to baggage claim - genius.

sunrise in miami.

this is TOTALLY the image i had of miami - palm trees dividing the freeway.

i'm staying at this fancy-pancy hotel.  loews will probably be one of the nicest hotel i'll ever stay in my life.

i got to the hotel waaaaay too early.  obvi, my room wasn't ready, so i tried to nap by the pool.

rough life.

this is my room at loews!  click the link --> aya's fancy room

(and if you're not one vine yet, you don't know what's up.)

that's all i'm going to share for now.  coming up will be my adventure around miami and the south beach wine & food festival (sobewff).

stay tuned.  xoxo.