Hotel is getting creative.  The 392 -room Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, Florida offers guests a “Future Floridian”  package: Hunt for a South Florida home, and you will receive a preferred list of real estate agents, GPS to navigate the area, valet parking and two hour long massages for “tired footsies”.

Buy a home in the area and Turnberry will throw in resort discount for “future house guests”.  Only the best is offered in Aventura from Hotel stays to the greatest mall The Aventura Mall, parks for all ages like Founders Park, great restaurants, schools and is surrounded by jogging paths around the brilliant five star Turnberry golf course.  Aventura a planned community only half mile from the ocean a great place to live.

 Welcome to the Arts and Events calender for Miam, look at : MiamiEventGuide.network

Arts and Cultural events in Miami reach residents and visitors from near and far.  Gteater Miami, on Florida’s southeast coast, pulsates with vibrant, multicultural appeal.

Here are a few………

Art Deco happenings, gallery openings, sizzling nightlife, excitement from Miami Dolphins football and Miami Heat basketball to the Florida Marlins baseball.

Annual events range from Art Deco Weekend, the FedEx Orange Bowl Classic, and the Miami Grand Prix to Calle Ocho, Art Basel Miami Beach, the Winter Party, King Mango Strut and the Christmas Eve’s Matzo Ball.

Also popular are the Coconut Grove Arts Festival (one of the most prestigious in the country) Miami-Bahamas Goombay festival, Easter Seals Festival of Chefs, and the Biltmore International Food and Wine Festival.

Miami has more to offer year round since the weather is warm and sunny most of the time.  No matter what your interests are weather it is theater, fine dining, great shopping or purchasing Real Estate….

Call Tammy or Marci to assist you.

Miami Beach

From past experience I know that always makes a bad day better. As I am heading towards South Beach I drive over the causeway and the water is really turquoise. It looked like the color they make the opening scene of CSI Miami T.V. show. I always thought they artificially colored those beginning shots, but here it was just gorgeous. Then I saw the port where all the cruise ships depart from on my right and to the left was Star Island home to many of the rich and famous.

I exited the causeway and as I made my way up 5th street the energy there was palpable. Here it was the last week of February and people were dressed ready for the beach. The shops and restaurants were bustling and there was no sign of trying economic times here. My thought was how unique an area this was and how fortunate I was to live here. No doubt if I was visiting that I wouldn’t want to stay for good.

When I finished a terrific lunch topped off with a colada (cuban coffee) for the ride home I decided to take the long way home up Collins Avenue through South Beach, then North Beach to Bal Harbour everywhere planted with bright beautiful flowers and realized my not great day couldn’t get much better.

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If you know Miami at all check out this 1957 video of how Miami used to be . You’ll see that as much has changed a lot is still the same.

Forty years ago, the intuitive words of a song called Aqurius, brought the dawning of the new age into collective awareness. 

WHEN THE MOON IS IN THE SEVENTH HOUSE 

THEN PEACE WILL GUIDE THE PLANETSAND LOVE WILL STEER THE STARS

AND JUPITER ALIGNS WITH MARS At dawn on the 14th of February the cosmos actually embodies this perfect alignment to support our collective manifestation of love and peace and dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

The day dedicated to St. Valentine, the patron saint of Love, the Moon in Libra enters the seventh house of relationships and Jupitar and Mars are aligned in the Aquarius in the twelfth house of spiritual transformation.

We measure our global sense of both space (latitude and longitude) and time (universal time-UT or GMT) from the prime meridian located at Greenwich, England.  So we can perceive the collective influence of this momentous astrological event by looking at the alignment from globally ‘centered’ perspective.

At 7:25 AM and for the 18 minutes of the alignment you are invited you are invited in the universal heart to add your own intention for love and peace to co-create the dawning of the Age of Aquarius to that of the Cosmos in whatever way feels appropriate for you, you may chose to align with 7:25 am (UT) or 7:25 am your own local time energizing a wave of intention what will surge around the Earth.

Tammy Schweitzer

EWM REALTY

AVENTURA, FLORIDA

A day at the races

Gulf Stream Park famous for it’s Sunshine Millions Race where Florida breeds compete against California-bred horses for a $3.6 Million in purses.

Newly built and magnificent track  surrounded by thrills for the new Winter season.  The only place to watch and wager on thoroughbred horse racing in Broward County Florida, day and night, is Gulfstream Park!

Casino

Here you will find 2 casino floors packed with non-stop action which include……..Hundreds of Vegas Style slots , 21 live action, no limit poker tables.

Dining

Enjoy savory dining at Christine Lee’s A South Florida legend featuring Asian specialties and tender prime aged sirloin steaks.

Ten Palms sprime for steaks and pasta entree specials at all time….

Jameson the beautiful new Jameson Jockey Club with live music, sit inches away from the track and enjoy 2 for 1 drink specials.

Gulf Stream Park is situated in Hallandale Beach, Florida 901 S. Federal Highway Hallandale Beach, Fl 33009

gulfstreampark.com  954-454-7007

The Celebrities

The festival runs from February 19-22, and takes place at various venues around South Beach. The weather at that time of year is usually the best in the country. You can’t beat walking around Ocean Drive and Lincoln Road in the most gorgeous climate and the energy from the influx of visitors is as intoxicating as the wine at the festival. Many well known names like Emeril Lagasse, Rachel Ray, Paula Dean, and Bobby Flay just to name a few will be part of this years festivities.

The Tribute Dinner

The Tribute Dinner for Emeril is star studded with Martha Stewart as emcee, guest celebrity chefs include Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Eric Ripert and many more. They have seminars about Barbecue and wine pairing, Sushi and wine pairing, Sherry and cheese and my personal favorite Chocolate and wine pairing with Godiva chocolates. What could be better than South Beach, great food and wine in February? For more information go to www.sobewineandfoodfest.com

If you haven’t experienced this and you are coming to Miami for the first time be warned you may end up doing as so many before you have done and end up never leaving.

Remember if you decide you can’t live another minute without having a home here contact me to find the perfect property.

Another destination which has put Hollywood, Florida on the map is the Hollywood Beach Boardwalk which spans for miles along a pristine clean and most beautiful beach. Newly renovated board walk made of pavers great for biking, walking, roller blading and people watching.  Tourists from around the world come to enjoy the stretch of  inexpensive restaurants, bars, ice cream stands, and cafes along with a Theater under the stars performing concerts each Monday Nite.

THE Hollywood board walk offers something for everyone, especially great warm and sunny beach filled days, it truly is a perfect fun filled vacation and a terrific place to own a vacation home ……………….. HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA.

Tammy Schweitzer -EWM Realty, Aventura, Florida

schweitzer.t@ewm.com

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One of the more popular events which happens every year on the New Year is coming up …….

It’s the 21st Annual Las Olas Art Fair held January 3RD and 4TH, 2009, Saturday and Sunday 10am-5pm.  

Admission is free, featuring over 300 artists from around the country and attracting 150,000 visitors each year.

The weather is usually in the upper 70’s bright and warm and lovely, the tourists and locals mingle, shop and buy,  eat good food and people watch.

Developers have fallen in love with the area of Las  Olas and with THE NEW RIVER and THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY which runs through the city.  Many of the new condominiums wich have been recently built bare the name of the Blvd. such as ……..

LAS OlAS RIVERHOUSE a 30 story condominium, 350 LAS OLAS, Luxury condominiums in a 30 story tower, priced from the mid $300’s, LAS OLAS GRAND a 38 story building with only 211 possible owners a luxury condominium with views of the Intracoastal water ways and the down town sky line on the front of The New River, and THE WAVERLY AT LAS OLAS, a sophisticated and elegant condominium priced from the low $300’s.

With real estate prices at a record lows one can easily double your pleasure shopping for real estate and art in Ft. Lauderdale’s famous LAS OLAS BLVD.

Tammy Schweitzer- EWM Realty Aventura, Florida

schweitzer.t@ewm.com

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