AIRPORT AND TRANSPORT

We arrived at the Miami airport at 11:30 AM. We easily found our luggage and there were Carnival reps waiting for us at the baggage claim. The reps were hard to understand with their accents but still managed to keep order. We were told that we would need to walk a block and a half to get to the buses that would take us to the port. We followed the reps down the sidewalk towards our buses. Over half of the crowd decides to smoke at this time. So here we are walking in this huge cloud of smoke. This really sucks if you don't smoke. We get to the station where the buses are and we are asked to show our IDs and transport tickets. It was soooooooooo crowded and people are still smoking like its going out of style (which I hope it is). We get on our bus and the driver tells us he is Jamaican and he will be taking us to the port. He also mentions that the mic is broken so he will have to yell. If you take the route we did you will pass the Orange Bowl and the arena where the Miami Heat plays. We pull into the port after about a 15-minute, NON-SMOKING, air-conditioned ride.

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