{Hyatt House Miami With Sweet Garden Residents}

Again we had a wonderful time at our favorite home away from home: Hyatt House Miami Airport
It is a huge hotel, actually apartment style guest rooms with a big tropical garden in the center and surrounding it.

The hotel is at the Blue Lagoon, a kind of lake that extends from behind the hotel.

At the parking lot even is a kind of canal that ends into the Blue Lagoon...
Below this post you find links from previous visits to this favorite Hyatt House; like finding a Muscovy Duck near the parking lot.
But this time we were in for a surprise or two...
Yep, this regal looking Peacock was walking around in the garden and on the patio that connects garden and other areas.

Photo is taken from our apartment down, overlooking the pool, on July 3rd.

We love their beds with the down duvet & pillows...

Near the patio outside of the pool area, we spotted two Peacoks!

And this sweet Kitty with 3-½ legs.
It really felt like being home with our own pets!

This kitty sat with us, under our table...
It was lucky as we did have some cat kibbles in the car! 
That made her bond with us right away after receiving some treats.

The two Peacocks were very tame as well but one was a lot fatter and also very bossy!

Love their plumage!

Have you ever stayed at a hotel with such exotic birds?

Hope you enjoyed our photos and thanks for your visit!

Related links:

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{Muscovy Duck in Miami, Florida} | previous post by me
{Miami Hyatt House & Date Palm} | previous post by me
{My Hand Knitted Silk Lace Shawl in Peacock Pattern} | previous post by me
{My Brocade Skirt Suit Creation from 1950s Zelinka Matlick} | previous post by me
{When Frost Arrives, we MISS the Florida Bottle Palms!} | previous post by me
{My Hand Knitted Linen Top} | previous post by me

{Fresh Young Coconut as Bonus from Hyatt Regency Sarasota, Florida}

When we were staying at the Hyatt Regency Sarasota, Florida, I was wondering about those tall palm trees around the pool area.

For sure those are not coconut palm trees I said to husband Pieter...

Well, the answer came on the last morning as Pieter went to the car for putting luggage in.

With the help of tall ladders, they were actually cutting off YOUNG COCONUTS!

Yes, a special crew that does this regularly, so none of these coconuts fall on people's heads...

Pieter was offered some of these Young Coconuts and he actually did put 3 in the car.

Two for sharing with friend Natacha, in Miami and one for us.

While living in Indonesia, we had this young coconut meat very often.

Called 'Daging Kelapa Muda' in Indonesian.

Here in the USA it is not that often that we have a fresh young coconut, they look very attractive too.

It takes a good sharp knife for preparing the coconut for pouring the coconut water out and than scooping out the soft flesh.

Opening Young Coconuts (water and meat) video 

In some super markets I've seen the saran wrapped young coconuts as seen in this video.

So these palm trees at the pool are the Cocos nicifera

Thanks for your visit!

Related links:

What Are the Benefits of Young Coconut Meat? 

8 Benefits of Coconut Water You Didn't Know About

{Award Nights at Hyatt Regency in Sarasota, Florida} | previous post by me

{Cotton Harvest Along Our Bike Route}

Being on our bikes, out in the lovely rural area we enjoy not only clean air but beautiful sights of Georgia crops.

On Wednesday we spotted one huge field where they had started harvesting cotton...

Husband Pieter with his Bicycle Helmet, holding the fluffy cotton.

You also get an idea how tall this pressed wall behind him is!

That is enough cotton for LOTS OF T-SHIRTS...

This one still needed to be covered.

This is the 'Mold' where the cotton is being sucked into and compacted.

Heavy equipment is being used for this cotton harvest.

This is the mechanical cotton picker.

Behind this picker you see the bare plants, to the right there are still 4 rows for the next turn.

Okay, we did go to the same field on the other side, where the harvest still needed to begin, to show you how vast it is!

This is a screenshot of the Youtube video shown below.

Our little Toyota RAV4 with the bike rack and our two Schwinn Bikes parked alongside the road and we walk into the field.

It has been a very DRY summer, as you can hear from Pieter's footsteps through the grasses towards the cotton...

A short, 21 second video, showing you the VAST cotton field...

An up close view of these ripe and fluffy cotton balls.

This gives already a taste of the vast field it is being grown on...

A sea of white cotton balls as far as you can see!

Impossible to look into the low sun, that is still very strong here in Georgia!

Wednesday, October 12 at 18:07 and still 27°C or 80.6°F

Hope you enjoyed this little rural excursion with us on our Bike Route! 

Interesting links:

What does a cotton plant look like?Growing cotton in the south - Interesting short video showing the plant and also its enemy the boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis).

Cotton Ginning Process Video I - Showing how those pressed bales are being loaded up.

Cotton Ginning Process video part 2 SilverLake Growers Gin - Showing you how it is being handled at the Cotton Gin for removing all the seeds, sticks, stems and burrs. Also the excess moisture is being removed.

Cotton Seed House Silver Lake Growers GinPart 3 - Showing you what is being done with the separated cotton seeds.

Cotton Trash and uses for it Silver LakeGrowers Gin part 4 - Showing you the waste, which is also being used as fertilizer and in compost.

Cotton Bale press, Docking, Trucking of cotton Silver LakeGrowers Gin part 5 - Seeing the end product being pressed with the use of hydraulics and loaded up as bales to be used to make clothes!

The History of Cotton | Cotton Documentary - Documentary Films with mention of the Arab word Qutun that sounds more like the Dutch Katoen, for English Cotton... Interesting movie!