Our Stay in South Beach

This past weekend the boyfriend and I took a little trip to South Beach, Miami's art deco district, in celebration of my birthday (23!) and his (second) graduation.  While it wasn't my first visit to the city, it's impossible not to appreciate and marvel the architecture which invites a retro-cool feel.  We stayed at the Sanctuary, just a block off of the famous Collins Ave, whose front exterior looks like this:

It's not quite as big as the picture lets on, and while we had beautiful weather, the sky never looked quite like that! (Photoshop anyone?)  Though our hotel isn't one of the most grandiose art deco buildings in the district, its geometrical shapes definitely place it in the same category.  (On a side note, the interior of the hotel was modernly designed but not-so-nicely maintained!  The whole weekend we were talking about how they could easily "take it up a notch" - Bill's words, not mine - by investing as much time into maintenance as they did into design!)