Day two: Underway

On Monday morning we leisurely got ready to leave for the cruise ship. The night before we had a very nice cab driver so we asked if he would be willing to take us from the hotel to the cruise ship and he said he only worked nights, but that he'd send his son, who worked days.

When you arrive at the cruise terminal a porter takes your bags from you and gets them onto the cruise ship. Then they are delivered to your stateroom later that day. As we were making our way up the gangplank we noticed a bunch of people gathered at water's edge. Then we realized that they were looking at, and trying to retrieve, a pallet full of luggage that had tipped over and fallen in the water! They were able to pull out a lot of it, but there was some that was floating away, and we heard that others had sunk. We started talking about how the cruise line would compensate someone for that, and Frank said, "Ladies, I want you to start practicing now, 'my diamonds! my diamonds!'"

Our staterooms were very small. We've never had such a small room on a cruise before. But they were nice and right next-door to each other. It took us no time at all to find lunch and a place to play games!

At the cruise terminal, ready to be checked in.

Madly trying to retrieve floating luggage.

Leaving the port of Miami!

Armed Coast Guard boats escorted us out of port. We thought this might be a good duty station for Nathan : )

So happy to be here!

Happy anniversary, Honey!

As we were leaving a storm was brewing over Miami.

Our first game-playing location.