Day 1 - Sept. 6th Sunday - Miami

We had a 5 hour drive down to Miami. We started off about 9:30am which would have gotten us to the port by 2pm. But plans do change, sometimes not for the good. We got on the Florida Turn Pike, just near Clermont another driver signaled us that we needed to stop. We did pull over and found out our back left tire was low. We soon found out that we had a flat tire. We got off at the next exit and pulled in to a gas station and put air in it. Then went to ask where a tire place was, plus with our Iphone were able to find a Tire Kingdom open on a Sunday of all days... We called them to make sure they were open. They got us in quickly and got the tire fixed. We thanked them for what they did. It still took an hour for all this to be done. We would not get down to Miami until around 3:00-3:30pm. I called Carnival to see what's the latest time we could be on the ship. I was told as long as we are at the port before 4pm we would be able to get on.

So we headed down there doing 85 to make sure we made it by 3pm. We did make it by that time. It was a little less then relaxing. I don't think I want to cut it that close again. We arrived at the port and drop our luggage off to the porters then went and parked and paid our $140 for the week. Read more