PALM BEACH TRIP
PALM BEACH, FL
I went on a trip with my mom to Palm Beach. Neither of us had been here before and I was
excited to have a mother/ daughter trip. This was also a first for us, as we had always done
family trips or girls trips with other family members. 10/10 recommend.
Our trip was September 21 - 25th, a nice long weekend. We flew out of CVG, the
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport, had a layover in Atlanta, then into Palm Beach
International Airport. We stayed at a beachfront resort called Marriott Ocean Pointe, its part of
the vacation club, so I learned some units are time shares, and the rest is the regular hotel room.
The hotel has three pools, a gym, basketball court, mini putt putt, corn hole, a kids water area,
nice marketplace with fresh fruit, small bar and grill by the pool with daily deals on drinks and
private beach access that we were able to get to from the pool. The four buildings are named
after fish and we stayed in the Sailfish building.
The resort is a little north of Palm Beach itself, the island called Singers Island on Palm Beach
Shores. Thursday we did lunch by the pool and for dinner we walked over to another hotel for
dinner and sat outside. We tried shrimp stuffed mushrooms as an appetizer, pictured right, and we both had the
ahi or mahi, I don't remember, tacos for dinner. The food was nice when we ate it, but ended up
not agreeing with me, sadly. Fortunately, I felt better going to bed and was back to normal the
next day and was just fine for the rest of the trip. I didn't try any new foods and kept to what I'm
familiar with. My mom didn't have any problems, thankfully.
Friday morning we went to a sanctuary called McCarthy's Wildlife Sanctuary . Mark McCarthy
lives on the property with the animals. Some of the animals are pet surrenders, people, who
shouldn't have had these wild animals in the first place, had them as pets then realized that a
wild animal does in fact grow up and become strong and the owners have to re-home.
Unfortunately, because the animal wasn't in their natural habitat, they're not accustomed to
being on their own and wouldn't be able to take care of themselves. The animals are owner
surrendered, zoo surrendered, or they're invasive to Florida. I was able to hold a little gator, and
according to the handler, Florida has a law that states gators have to have their mouths taped
shut when being handled. The tape doesn't hurt them, it wasn't on tight.
After the animals, we went back to the hotel and had a pool day. Then we walked to dinner at a
restaurant called Johnny Longboats with a big fake shark above the bar and we both had
burgers.
Saturday we did the beach. The weather was a little overcast with most of the clouds over the
ocean instead of the land, which was nice, but the tide was really high that day so I couldn't go
out far into the water otherwise I would have been swept away. The tide was also coming up
really far onto the dry sand so I couldn't wade far either, the water came up to my waist. We just
relaxed and laid around on the beach, a nice chill day.
Lagoon. It's an education center and event center right on the marina. The water isn't enclosed,
so the manatees have free range to come and go as they please, and as they should, wild
animals aren't meant to be captive. However, this also means that you are not guaranteed to see
any manatees and unfortunately we did not see any. Manatees go north for the summers when
the water is cooler, and south for when the water is warmer. One can expect to see them in Palm
same as theirs, for example, the sternum, humorous, radius and ulna. I
bought this pretty turtle watercolor painting and a manatee pin.
After manatee lagoon, we went shopping on Worth Avenue. On Sunday I expected the
sidewalk to be crowded but there were barely anyone. We found this cool store called 120%
Lino, they design for women, men and kids. They have locations in Charleston, Nantucket,
Miami, Milan, Palm Desert and are opening another location in Scottsdale. I bought a white silk
and linen dress and my mom bought a bag.
Palm Beach so I could go back everyday. This was our favorite restaurant and we both miss it.
It's behind Lilly Pulitzer in a little garden with a fountain. The restaurant staff spoke Italian and it
was the most lovely atmosphere. We sat outside and my mom ordered a dish with shrimp and
zucchini pasta and I had a bolognese dish I don't remember what it's called but with dishes were
amazing. I wish I could ship the food here. * shop outfits here *
After shopping we walked along the beach and the tide was calm today, it was really nice.
Then we went back to the room and relaxed and finished our leftovers and packed. We left
Monday and we both had a great time. We don't have another mom/daughter trip planned right
now but I'm sure we will plan another one. if I left out any links for anything please let me know.
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