Our last day on the cruise was a sea day. I kind of find them a bit difficult as much of the things going on is not that interesting to me. Nonetheless, we did go up and play some corn hole getting beat by a young couple. They kind of kick Jeff and my behind. Others went to the ropes course, watched the hairy chest contest, did the water slides and other fun things. At one point, Denise and I found a shady spot on the boat and just watched the ocean sail by as we headed through the Caribbean back to Port Canaveral.
In the evening, we all met for dinner again. Last time for the cruise. I was tired of the dining room food, so I grabbed a Cubano Sandwich at the Deli and brought that to dinner. But they did have a great Mango (cold) soup as well as a French Onion soup to go with my sandwich. I also had grabbed some chocolate cookies and ate them with some chocolate drizzled vanilla ice cream. The food was all good...very similar to the last cruise we were on in October.
Cruising was\is fun. But doing it 3 times in one year is a bit much. It has been a crazy year though. So it is understandable. We are glad that Dale seemed to have a great time. The whole family (minus Nadine) was there making it be a memorable one.
Saturday morning, I got Denise and I up an hour early. I pulled a Dale and Julee and was confused by what was island time and ship time. In Italy, Dale and Julee got totally mixed up with time and were ready to go at like 2 AM in the morning. That will always be a funny memory to us. Anyway, after getting ready, we all met in the buffet at about 8:30 AM to eat and wait until our number was called. We were in no hurry....or so we thought. But then Kami was traveling with us and wanted to try to get on a noon flight to Denver. So that caused us to pick the pace up. We got off the boat and could find all our bags except Dale's. We went all over the place and in the end, we had just overlooked it where it was supposed to be. At this point, the wheelchair woes began. They force all wheelchair people to use their own line...and let me tell you...there were a lot of people in wheelchairs or using large strollers on this cruise. They also forced us to use a Porter for our bags. Kind of weird. Anyway, he pointed out as we approached TSA that no food products could be brought back into the country. You would have thought Dale and Julee were about to be robbed. They grabbed out their precious apples and started consuming them as though they had not eaten in a week and this was going to be their last meal. So darn funny it was. Anyway, we made it through without fines or jail time and headed out to get our shuttle. We found Corey alright, but he had added another family to join us. All good except for the fact that one of the ladies had fallen and 011 was called so she could be attended to. We were not sure for a while if they were coming or not. Kami was getting anxious as she wanted to try to get to that noon flight. It was about 10:45 and we had a 50 minute drive. Finally, our driver (Corey) forced the family to decide and it turned out that they put the woman on a stretcher to take her to the hospital. They kind of thought she had broken her arm. Poor lady. So off we went. We arrived just in time to know that Kami could not get her bags on the plane even though she probably could have made it. So she called an audible and listed herself to San Francisco instead at 5 PM.
The Orlando airport was a zoo. Disneylanders, cruse ship people and tons of wheelchairs. Even though Denise and I were pre-TSA and could have skipped right through the long lines, we had to get into the 'wheelchair line' which was 2 miles long. I think it took us about 45 to 50 minutes to get through it. And of course, Julee had some liquid product in her bag that caused her bag to be pulled and the product surrendered to the authorities. It was a painful moment. We finally arrived at our gate, sat down for 5 minutes and then they started calling those to board who might need help. It was pretty close actually now that I think about it. Anyway, off we went to Houston.
At Houston, Denise and I peeled off and went to Landry's Seafood for lunch\dinner. This was her free club perk from the Visa card that she acquired, We each got $28 to spend for lunch. Dale and Julee, we left them to their own demise. Since we passed Subway, a tuna sandwich was the only option for Julee (and poor Dale). She did go buy him french fries and we did bring some french fries back to him too. So they were all good. Denise ordered a shrimp PoBoy sandwich that could have fed us all. It was huge. We ordered way to much. Live and learn. We'll be back there and use this again.
Since we had our own wheelchair, we had to get it tagged every time at each gate. This time Denise went up and somehow she was able to get me moved up by her and got Dale and Julee their whole row. They were so nice to us in Houston. The flight went well. Denise and I watched 'Wanted'...and Australian TV show on Netflix about two innocent ladies on the run as they try to prove their innocence. It is pretty good TV show.
We arrived home around 10 PM after waiting for our bags about 40 minutes and then having to go to Park-n-Ride to get Julee and Dale's car. So good to be home!
I will have more pictures to add to the blog pages later today. My IPad gave me fits on this trip with the Blogger application. So I had to use the web page version and Blogger to get something up there. But now I'm using the laptop and will come back later today to clean things up a bit and add a bit more.
Another trip in the books! Pictures to come....
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