Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Take Miami

Sunday Dec 18, 2005 3:30pm EST
Monday Dec 19, 2005 12:15pm EST (updated)
By Jon Warech and Julie Kay
People Magazine

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes took their traveling party to Miami,
Fla., this weekend.

The engaged pair, who spent Thursday dining, shopping and ice-
skating in New York City to celebrate Holmes turning 27 on Dec. 18,
arrived in Miami on Friday afternoon. Also in town: Will Smith (in
the city to perform at the Y 100.7 Jingle Ball on Saturday) and wife
Jada Pinkett Smith, Cruise's costar in the 2004 movie Collateral.

Early Friday evening, sources say, Cruise watched Will Smith
rehearse at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla.; later, Cruise,
Holmes and the Smiths dined at Miami Beach eatery Barton G. The
Restaurant.

At about 1:20 a.m., the two couples hit the South Beach rock club
Snatch, where they chilled for nearly an hour in a roped-off area on
the second floor. (Also partying at Snatch was baseball slugger
Sammy Sosa.) Holmes, who is expecting her first child with Cruise,
kept her arms around her fiancé, even hugging him from behind as
they all left through a back door. (The next night, says a source,
when a well-wisher asked why Holmes hadn't ridden the club's
mechanical bull, Cruise joked, "If she wasn't pregnant, she would
have been on the bull.")

On Saturday, the four friends spent the afternoon on a private yacht
touring the bay off the Florida coast, and stopped for lunch on the
exclusive Fisher Island. Later, Cruise and Holmes headed to the
BankAtlantic Center for the Jingle Ball. As they hung out backstage
waiting for Will Smith's performance, they took photos with all who
asked.

Finally, Smith took the stage, arriving via a sleigh that "flew"
over the audience on wires. After two songs, he brought out his wife
and their daughter Willow, 5, as well as Cheryl Romero, whom he
described as a woman "who had a tough time this year." He handed her
several gifts, then said, "I have another Christmas present for you
and the audience. I want to bring out someone who has never been to
Miami before: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes."

As the crowd exploded in applause, the couple walked out hand in
hand. "How's it going?" Cruise asked the audience. "This is my first
time in Miami and I love it. Is it always like this?" Smith
replied, "It is every time I come here."

"Then I can see why you keep coming back," Cruise said. Before he
and Holmes left the stage, he added, "I'd like to wish you all a
happy holiday and Merry Christmas and just a great year."

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