Unimaginable

WOW!!

Where do I start? This has been an unbelievable day.

We slept well last night and woke up around 7:30.

 Then we got our breakfast which was free at the hotel. We met and chatted with a very nice couple, Tony and Nancy.

Then we walked over to Win Dixie and picked up a bottle of wine and some flowers.

We got the 10:30 shuttle over to the Caribbean Princess. It went smoothly. We met Randy and Janeen and Fred and \Mary at the waiting area. Then we are boarded the ship and met for lunch. Lunch was fantastic.If this an indication of the food for this cruise we are going to need a treadmill for sure. YUM!! The best trout I have ever eaten.

After lunch we returned to our room to get unpacked. I was shocked and pleased to see that Kim had sent us flowers again. Such a sweetie.!

Our cabin is about the most compact Balcony cabin ever. ( compact means small) The balcony has metal sides and I an certain that has something to do with salt spray during rough seas. But it will do. Next time we will not do a BF balcony.

Our luggage had arrived and we began to put everything away. While unpacking we turned on the television. It was then that we learned of what was unfolding at the airport.

Shock and sadness overcame us. We were glued to the TV and we could not believe what was happening. It so easily could have been us caught in that mess. We usually fly into FLL and for an instant I considered taking the red eye from Vancouver and we would have arrived at that airport at that time. Because I was concerned that winter weather could be a problem if we traveled the day we were cruising I decided it would be better to go the day before even if it meant traveling to Miami and taking the shuttle back to FLL. We came so close to being in that chaos. We have a guardian Angel looking after us for certain.

So much sadness so much pain and so many lives turned upside down.

We learned that 110 to 120 of those people caught at the airport lock down were people who should have been taking this cruise with us. Because of that our departure was delayed. Princess decided to stay docked and wait until the police could allow those people to leave the airport.

Dozens of police cars escorted the passengers back to the ship. We stood on deck seven and watched them arrive. It was a happy moment but a sad one as well when we thought about what those passengers had been through.

Instead of sailing at 4:30 we set sail at 9:35.

KUDOS to Princess.