We left home around noon on Wednesday, 12/3 and drove to St. Louis to stay overnight at a Holiday Inn Express so we could catch our 6:00am flight to Atlanta. We had prearranged dinner with some friends who, coincidently, were staying down the road and flying out the next morning for Jamaica. After a nice BBQ dinner, we turned in early.
I woke up at 2:30am, so we had no trouble being in the lobby at 3:15 to grab some eats and leave for the airport at 4:00. After boarding the plain, we sat at the gate for about 30 minutes waiting for maintenance to sign off on a glitch in the stall warning that the pilot had already solved. Anyway, we pushed back about 35 minute late for the 70 minute flight to Atlanta.
We landed in Atlanta and proceeded to our gate with plenty of time to spare. We left Atlanta at 10:00 and arrived in Ft. Lauderdale 1 hour and 25 minutes later where we caught the shuttle to the La Quinta Inn. After settling in, we walked about 3/4 mile to Sal's Italian Ristorante where we enjoyed some great pizza along with a couple of beers for an early dinner.
From Sal's we walked to about a mile to BJ's Warehouse where we bought a couple of bottles of wine, the limit we were permitted to carry on the ship without a $15 corking fee. On the ship, we talked to a lady who said their party of four was allowed to bring six bottle onboard without a fee. Go figure!
On Saturday morning, we caught La Quinta's shuttle back to the airport to catch Princess Cruise's shuttle to the ship. We were about three hours early for our embarkation time, but we didn't have anything else to do. We boarded the ship around 1:00 and went to our cabin before eating lunch in the buffet. Our luggage arrived at our room about four hours later, soaking wet. Not too much of the contents were wet, so we were OK.
Walked around the ship. Met John & Terisa from British Columbia while standing in line for dinner. Ate dinner with them before walking around the ship and heading for the room.
Since this is my first post from the ship. I don't know how bad the upload speed will be. Internet access cost's a fortune, so if it's real slow, I'll be limiting my posts until we get home,
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Just checking this out...off to a good start!
Hugs from Carefree!
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