sarahcor
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2008
Welcome to our trip! I’m Sarah, in the Minnie Mouse glasses, along for the fun is my mom Pam, my daughter Mia and my son Westin.
This was our second cruise, 1st time on the Magic. This was a 4 night leaving from Miami on Jan 14th to Key West, Castaway Cay and the Bahamas.
We were at a football party in November and I’m not real big into sports so I was perusing the cruise website when this cruise caught my eye. I showed it to my mom and we decided we needed a getaway so we requested the time off from work. Approval received a few days later and the trip was booked!
I wrapped up a miniature bike, snorkel and flippers, stingray stuffed animal, autograph book, water shoes, magnets for the door, Minnie ears and a few other cruisey things and gave it to the kids for Christmas as kind of a mystery reveal.
Mia knew immediately we were going somewhere and guessed it was a Disney cruise but she was surprised it was in a few weeks so my surprise was a success! If you’re interested you can see the video on my Instagram, user palmersruca
So fast forward a few weeks and we are leaving our lovely little airport for Ft Lauderdale
Excited and ready to get out of PA! Flight was quick and uneventful. We grabbed our suitcases and followed the signs to the hotel shuttle area. And we waited and waited and waited...
I call the hotel and immediately I’m on hold. My mom calls and gets right through
We are in the wrong spot, I guess I should have researched this part a little more
So we head the opposite direction all the way to the very end of the airport to the end of the sidewalk and around the corner where it looks like there is nothing but actually there is a covered walkway and that was where we should have been, so now we know for the next time!
Mia is over it
Westin thinks we will be stuck here all night long and miss the ship
And there was a sign, guess we missed it
It was about an hour of waiting from when we started to wait at the wrong location then relocated to the correct spot until the shuttle came for us but we were not stranded and we made to our home for the night
We stayed at the Best Western Ft Lauderdale airport /cruise port, it was inexpensive and fine for the night. Everyone zonked out pretty quickly
I was up for a while longer, I did my nails and watched Friends for a while. I was too excited to sleep because our cruise was tomorrow!!