We finally made it to Ft. Lauderdale, the drive was uneventful, and the rental car made it without any problems. Departure time from home was an early 6:00 am. We went to the Ft. Lauderdale airport to return the rental car, and took the free shuttle to the port. After going through security and check-in, we were in our cabin by 12:15.
After a brief and small lunch of fish for Good Friday, we walked around the ship and finally made it to the computer area to work on this Blog.
It is sunny, but windy here, and not as warm with the temperature in the 70’s. We are now waiting on our luggage to make it to the room, hopefully without incident, i.e., confiscation of any “spirits”, strictly for medicinal purposes of course! It is a long time at sea, and we could get ill.
The ship only seems to be about 2/3 full, there are a lot of empty cabins with no name tags, mostly interior cabins.
We depart at 5:00 PM this afternoon. We hope everyone enjoys reading about our adventure, and we welcome any comments.
Update: All of our luggage arrived safely and without incident (including all of our medicinal spirits). The weather actually cleared, and with the additional sunshine, the temperature warmed up more to what we expected from southern Florida.
We left port on time at 5:00 PM, and headed north-eastward along the coast.
We ate dinner in the buffet, which consisted of boiled shrimp, and king crab legs. Princes Cruises are so predictable, this is the normal buffet spread for the first night on cruises normally departing for the Caribbean.
We headed back to the cabin early; we were both tired from the early rising and full day’s travel.