Miami Fla May 1938
We are also very impressed and we feel like a farmer who comes to the city but it’s wonderful here. The millionaires are running around in the streets in skirts, short sleeves and look so casual, you can easily mistake Peter for one of them, I hope he doesn’t get kidnapped. there are lots of cars and buildings with 15/16 stories. We have found room at a hotel with 600 rooms, the price will be 15$ per day for room only. Luckily the season is over or else we would have been completely drowned. The beach is beautiful, 100 meter wide and as long as you can see. It is not permitted to change your clothes on beach and therefore, ladies and men stroll around the whole town. The ladies with something they call just an excuse and the gentlemen, Valdemar, this new style we’ll have to watch at Gilbye bathing suit and shirt but the shirt outside the pants. Then I must tell that our dear country men again have a surprise for us. To be so interested that they come and say hallo to us I believe there have been 30-40 and we have been visiting some of them already and tomorrow there is a family who arrange a shower party for the baby where they will try to get all the Danes together. A shower means shower and shower party, it’s a party where everybody brings along something so tomorrow evening it will rain with diapers. Mr. Kai Vorre (Marie’s brother) surprised us with a letter, would you be nice enough to say hallo and say thanks and please excuse us that we maybe wouldn’t reach to answer directly on account of my condition and tell them that when we meet a philatelist we will be sure to squeeze a couple of stamps out of him to change with the oC. and tob? Can you get toilet paper in the same color? Here besides us there is a big steam yacht, the owner is not on board but an 11 men crew, 8 are Norwegians, so we were on board to see it. The owner’s tub, W.C. and washbasin were light green and the paper the same color of rope.
Included are 25 bottles of rum which you can easily smuggle in and now at last many loving greetings from us. Lars, Anne, Peter and Else. and our stow away.