Henry Morrison Flagler built the 140 acre Breakers in
ultra-super-mega rich Palm Beach, FL in 1896 and rebuilt after a fire in 1926
this beach front hotel is way out of my price range. I did a super splurge and went to their
Sunday Brunch in the The Circle dining room.
It’s a beautiful building, no doubt. But surrounded by the
1% of the 1% I couldn’t help but be a little sick to my stomach at how out of
touch with reality many of their patrons are.
There were several multi-generational families there that were chatting
and saying they come every week (doing the math this is several thousand
dollars a week for BRUNCH!), and blah, blah, my private yacht. And wow, the food wasn’t even all that
impressive. But the building was really beautiful, and I can firmly put this is
the same category as things like the Kentucky Derby, Mardi Gras, and the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. Which is to say,
“yeah, I’m glad I did that, but I don’t ever need to do it again.”
