Well we are back. After 10 glorious days away I am actually happy to be home.
We had a great time and later on this week I’ll recap the highlights of our trip. Right now we sit and wait to get off the ship and head to the airport, where we will attempt to get on every possible flight on standby to get home. Our current flight leaves at 5:45pm.
I’ve missed you all!
Travel days are always the worst. The excitement to get on with your vacation coupled with things out of your control make for a tiring day.
We left home around 830 Thursday morning grabbed some coffee and hit the airport for our 11:07 flight. First stop was Atlanta. We had a short 1 hour and 15 min layover that turned into the flight leaving an hour later than scheduled. We found this out AFTER we had all boarded the full flight.
We finally touched down in Fort Lauderdale only about an hour late. A quick call for the airport shuttle and we were on our way to check in. We dropped our bags in the room and spent the next hour and a half wandering the local vicinity for some last minute items and Wine!
We were successful in getting all the miscellaneous items on our list, except for the wine, at Kmart. A nice 2 mile walk in either direction proved fruitless as there were no wi e stores to be found. Don’t these Floridians drink?
The hotel was nice. My only issue was with the Free Shuttle ( I know don’t complain it’s free). We attempted to get on the list to get to the cruise port as early as possible and the guy says oh I have an 11:45 time slot open. No Ma’am. I want to be there early and have my first drink in hand by 11:45. Needless to say we will be getting a cab there since we still need to stop and buy some wine.
That’s all for now. Internet service will be off limits while we are on the ship, but I have my laptop to write the daily posts for publishing upon my return. See you all on the flip side!
That’s how many more days there are until we leave on our fabulous Cruise.
You can expect some silence here probably until we get back, but since I am bringing the laptop I will work on daily posts recapping the trip and the wonderful time we will be having,
Not to mention pictures of the food we eat and the fruity drinks!
So my last post before we leave will be this week’s bowling recap.
I may post once more from Fort Lauderdale Thursday since we are staying over in a hotel that night before the cruise leaves on Friday!
Bon Voyage and don’t miss me too much…..
Sails in 11 Days. What more is there to say.
Half way through the season, that means it’s position round, where you play the team ahead of you in the points standings. We played Team B-Unit!
You all should be luck I am even posting this week’s scores. They were dismal at best!
Where has the year gone. March 1st already, seems like we were just celebrating New Years.
Brace yourselves this is going to be another weekend recap full of Food, Fun, and Frivolity. It was a whirlwind crazy weekend for sure. It started on Friday night when my best friend dropped off Maggie for a weekend visit. Maggie to put it mildly is a Beagle/Boxer mix who is a battleaxe. Picture a really small hippo and that is Maggie. So for the weekend we had 4 dogs in the house, thankfully they all get along really well.
Saturday was our usual errands, then we jumped in the car to pick up our friend, head to the train station near his house, hop the train to meet his husband, then puled in the car to New York City for Dinner and Show. First we started with a fantastic dinner at Uncle Nick’s Greek Restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen. A quaint little place with some awesome food.
We started with the Four Combo Dips Appetizer (Tzatziki – Yogurt, cucumber and garlic dip., tarama – A fluffy, tangy fish roe dip., melitzanosalata – Eggplant dip & scordalia – Potato and garlic dip.) and the Saganki-Tiri (Tony’s Flaming Cheese). I tried all of them and I have to say the Tzatziki was one of the best i’ve ever had. The Flaming cheese was damn good as well.
For my entree I had the Lahanodolmades (Stuffed Greek Cabbage), the hubby had the Lamb Chops, and our 2 friends both ordered the Elliniki Compania (Gyro, two pork souvlaki, pita & tzatziki sauce). Everyone raved at how good their meals were. This will definitely be a place I think we would visit again.
After dinner we headed over to Times Square for our second viewing of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. This was the second time for all 4 of us seeing this show. I thought the show was outstanding the first time, but it was even better this time. There had been a few cast changes since we saw it in December, which really went unnoticeable. I think I picked up on things this time that I may have missed the last time around. As we were leaving the theater we got separated from our friends but easily caught up to them in the Lobby as one of them was buying Fabulous Pink Boa’s for he and I. We through them on when we got outside and wore them all way from times square to the car. We even stopped for a photo op of us in our boa’s in the middle of Times Square. If you have any interest at all in this and are in NYC and get the opportunity GO! GO! GO! see this show.
Sunday morning we added another 2 bodies to the house, my niece and nephew. Mom, Dad, my Brother and Sister-in-Law were all heading out on a cruise Sunday afternoon, so the hubby and I volunteered to take the kids for a few hours until my sister was free from her commitments to take over babysitting duties.
Another Stellar (someone needs to invent the sarcasm font very soon) night at bowling and the weekend was wrapped up. Another pretty normal work week, with a month end thrown in the mix for good measure and here we are at March. I think it’s safe to say it came in like a Lamb.
Fear the Drum Major 