In this tough economic time it was really nice to see everyone just have some fun last week. The cruise was so great we hardly even thought about the events of the world. I saw and heard more laughing then I' ve ever witnessed.

We drove down to Fort Lauderdale from Central Florida on Sunday morning in record time now that I-95 seems to be about finished with the widening. We arrived at the parking area, Park and Fly at 1 PM and arrived at the pier via the park and fly shuttle at 1:20 pm.

There was a computer glitch and the lines were not moving. It took about 20 minutes before the problem was resolved and then we started moving through security and the screening machine. All-in-all it took 50 minutes to get on board due to this computer problem (we did not stand in the photographer's line which saved us lots of time). Read more