Lunch at the Airport
It was quite a production getting ourselves to Florida to embark on our ship, the Emerald Princess. We left the house on foot at 7 pm on Wednesday night and walked up to the bus stop, hauling our heavily laden bags. Caught the bus downtown and transferred to the light rail in Westlake, which took us to SeaTac. At least at that hour, security was a breeze! We took the red-eye through Detroit to Fort Lauderdale and then caught the bus to the cruise terminal. We left dark, wet grey Seattle skies with distant thunder and landed in Florida to bright sunshine and 75̊ weather. Yes!
Knowing that we would not find anything in the terminal building, we stopped in the airport to celebrate our arrival in the tropics and the end of our transportation odyssey. After only about one hour of sleep, our bodies had no idea whether it was day or night, so we figured a beer was okay no matter what the time was.
-T
Sitting on the balcony outside our stateroom aboard the Emeral Princess on our first full day at sea. It was hellish getting here, but wonderful now that we are aboard.
We left Seattle on the redeye Wednesday night, with a plane change in Detroit around 3 am our time. Finally landed in Fort Lauderdale about 7 am our time, 10 am Florida time. We were both dead, having each managed maybe an hour of sleep, with several hours to kill before the ship began loading. And we were hungry.
We did not want to leave our luggage sitting in baggage claim, but getting it meant leaving the part of the airport where most of the restaurants were. Fortunately we were still able to find one bar in the public access area, and they had hot dogs, which tasted just great at that point. We were too tired to try and go our touristing, especially dragging luggage, so we just hung out at the airport.
– M
When on vacation beer is always ok no matter what time it…that is why, for, example, there is cappuccino beer-meant to be for breakfast with hot dog or croissant.
How exciting to finally be on board! I’m certainly glad nothing bad happened, like missing the flight and such.
Sorry, wrong post, meant to post it in “Tougher than Disneyland”.
Beer: It’s not just for breakfast anymore.
How do you get captions on your pictures? And the border around your pictures?
When you post a picture, there is a line on the picture info for a caption – if you fill it in, it appears as a caption with the picture. I have no idea about the borders, I have not tried playing with that, I’m just using the default setting.