Pre-cruise - April 3, 2009

We are a family of five - Beth and Jerry, parents, Mike, 17 year old son, Sam, 15 year old son, and Jane, Grannny to Mike and Sam, Mom to Beth, age given on a "need to know basis" only.  I'm Beth.

We did a one night pre-cruise stay in the Marriott Biscayne Bay.  I managed to use easyclicktravel.com to land two rooms at $115 per night.  Sweet!  That's a 3.5 star hotel, normally $375 per night at that time of year! We had driven from Orlando on Friday, April 3, after picking up the boys after school.  We used one of those Garmin GPS's, and it was great.  The thing was smart enough to route us around an accident that had choked up I-95.  We could not figure out why it took us off of the interstate onto some less than desirable side streets (lots of graffiti, etc.) until we saw blocked off on and off ramps, lots of flashing lights, lots of police, etc.  It was cool that the GPS did that! Read more