On our Way

Where do I start?

So much has happened in the past 36 hours that I will have a hard time reporting on all of it.

I will try and I will begin at the beginning.

April 3, 2016, dawned early. The clock was set for four o’clock and of course we didn’t sleep soundly because we were afraid we would over sleep. Well I woke 10 minutes early and so we were in the car and on our way out of the driveway at 4:30. 

We had things printed out but for some reason the machine did not like Ken’s boarding pass. We got through the line up but the flight was boarding sooner than we expected as a result there was no time to have breakfast. I had to take my meds and you have to eat with them. We ended up grabbing a scone which we shared. I was choking down a dry scone and having a mouth full of water from a fountain to wash the pills down. We went through security and the plane was loading already. We went through the line and boarded and then the plane waited on the tarmac for over a half hour.

We got to Calgary without a problem,Ken had a window seat and the mountains were glorious in the sun.

 The wait in Calgary was uneventful. Then on to Toronto. We were not impressed. It was supposed to be so easy to switch to an international flight . Well they ran us around and around and we actually had our boarding passes and passports scanned three times. But we got to our gate just in time. We were almost the last people to board the plane. Again we were delayed. The plane was put into a line to be sprayed with de icer but when we finally made it to the front of the line it was decided that we didn’t need it.

We had pre ordered our meals on both the Calgary leg and the Toronto leg and that part went very smoothly. However when we got to Fort Lauderdale there was no announcement telling us where to pick up our luggage. People were wondering around all over the area until we finally found the correct carousel. We could not believe how easy it would have been to just walk off with some ones luggage.

It was hot and humid when we stepped outside even though it was almost nine at night. After a few trials and errors we managed to connect with the correct shuttle to take us to our hotel. There was no problem checking in .

 We asked for a 10:30 shuttle to take us to the ship. Then we walked over to the little mall and we got 2 bottles of wine and I got flowers. They had wonderful long lasting daisies and carnations and astemaria for 3 bunches for twelve dollars. It was difficult but I choose the colors I wanted and away I went, flowers in hand. I knew getting them to the ship would be difficult what with all of the other stuff I was carrying. But it would be worth it to have fresh flowers in the mini suite. Mini suites just have to have flowersJ

We crawled into our most comfortable beds in our beautiful clean quiet room and we set the clock for eight. We were afraid that we might sleep in: we were so very tired. We could not believe how exhausted we were. I guess we are getting OLDER!!

Tomorrow we board the Regal Princess.