Toweling Off

Wasn't I just saying something about the sun? And sunscreen? Only a week ago, in my "SPF 30" blog, I wrote about all the brands and SPF varieties of sunscreen products you can find in both my home and car. To which I added one more brand only a few days ago, by the way. I now own six different kinds of sunscreen including the latest addition to my medicine cabinet, SPF 30 Coppertone. All this got me thinking. Because a good day in the sun requires more than simply protection against those intense South Florida rays. You need stuff - practical stuff and fun stuff. Practical stuff like, well, a good towel for instance. And some flip-flops to keep your soles smiling. And fun stuff like possibly a great beach ball. You know. Stuff.

Which brings me to my point. Since you're going to visit Greater Fort Lauderdale from wherever you are now (assuming you're not one of our many local blog readers), you'll need at least one more major item to go with your beach stuff. A good hotel. You'll require this as a storage space for your beach ball, if nothing else.

As it happens, I know some place where you can get all of this stuff at a great price. Right here. Yep, here on this very website at http://www.sunny.org/. I have been looking at the home page promotions a lot lately, as you may have noticed. For instance, I recently pointed out the cool quiz called, "what is your beach type?" The sunny.org redesign means there are a lot of new things to explore. So now I've been checking out another feature named "free beach starter kit." If you book your hotel through this site, you get all that stuff I mentioned earlier - and yes, it's really free. A nice beach towel, flip flops and, perhaps best of all, that beach ball. The hotel is not free. Sorry. But it's hassle free at least. Simply click on the home page link. This will take you to another page where you enter the arrival and departure dates. Another click-through brings up a long, long list of hotel choices at a wide range of prices. Couldn't be easier, really. You're likely to find just the right hotel room at just the right cost. But if you ask me, the beach ball is the best part. It's a blast on the sand, of course. And it also makes the perfect prop for those vacay pics you email your friends stuck back at the office. What could be better than that?