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Thanks for joining in.

Thanks for coming along. This is 3rd trip on her with a follow up in November.

One of the options some considered was to drive down. When we checked 95 in the Carolinas we were told to rethink those plans.

Not a big problem, I will try not to forget, happy to do it. Please remind me along the way in the review when we get closer to the day.

Thanks for coming along. One of our most fav itineraries as well.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We are up to almost half the group accounted for so far.

thanks for following along!

I get it. They have a different approach. Their view is that they are letting the TA work their business. It is called "be the hero".

Pics from the lobby area

I recently had a conversation with someone on the mgt team regarding the Fantasy class. The ones scrapped were upside down in refurb costs. WAY upside down. There was no saving them.

So we were a day earlier than we planned. Decide to stay in above hotel last night and transfer to hotel in Miami for Friday night... I know ti is crazy, but we are in it for the ride now. M0re to follow.

Our room

To make a long story boring, got to Hampton Inn and suites around 11:i5 PM. Snooze time

We got to Orlando and waiting on delayed flight to take us to FLL

So as I was boarding a flight to go to CT on Wednesday mid day, my wife texts me 6 in our group already got texted their flights out of NYC were cancelled. We went into react mode. Save you all the gyrations, but we preemptively changed our flights from Thursday direct to Southwest, with two connections to skirt possible issues. I thought it was overkill but got outvoted. For us anyways, while somewhat ugly, it worked. For the rest, the jury is still out

Thanks. Fingers crossed.

Thanks Jeff. Will do my best!

Ha. Now that is interesting.

We had people coming from 4 airports in the northeast and Debby slowed over Georgia and the Carolina's and flights started to cancel. Uh ohh

SO Debby skirted us in SW Florida (We got bashed by IAN in September 2022, so we are a little gun shy). We got a ton of rain 12 inches, but a sigh of relief and I gave a wave to Debby...buh bye.....wait maybe she is not done with us yet.

Thanks for coming along. There will be lots of pics along the way, feel free to comment or question during the cruise.

We have had some let's say interesting times with Hurricanes in the past couple of years, and this cruise would just not be the same without a little dance with the ugly beasts also. As some of you may know we live in Florida but summer in our old home base area of CT. I had to fly home to Florida for some business and guess what, TS Debby had to get in the way. The plan was to fly back north to join our group to fly back down to Miami (FLL) the day before the cruise. What is it they say about the word "plan"? Oh yeah, it is a 4 letter word.

We usually cruise 3 to 4 times a year but have not cruised since the Mardi Gras School break cruise in February. In the interim we have done some land trips. This cruise is with a small group of about 30, including two of our kids and their families.

It has been a while come on along and join us. We were jones'ing for some cruising.