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We just landed and have pulled up to the gate It's cooler here. For the first time in three weeks, I'm underdressed!

We just got off. It was a bit chaotic and time consuming to get off the ship. The cruise terminal was pretty swamped with people. We had 5-6 customs and immigration stations open to process us. I'm sure that put you guys behind schedule.

Looking forward to coming home to see Daisy!

It worked during our Constellation cruise today.

We didn't plan it that way. We didn't expect it to take this long getting through customs and immigration. Many people in our disembarkation group (20) had later flights than us so I think our group assignment was a problem too. In retrospect, my wife and I agree that we should do the self walk off next time in Tampa. It would have saved us over an hour, I estimate.

Thank you as well, Ruth. It was good that we got to meet. May you enjoy all your future Celebrity cruises!! Stay healthy.

111:04 am. We are lining up to board.

We ended up checking our bags at the curb. It was $3 per bag, but they really don't check the bag weights.

We got through security at 1048 am

No large lines at the United desk

Arrived at 10:26 am

There is no signage for the taxi stand. Jonathan, a Celebrity crew member stationed at the terminal exit door did not know either. There are buses parked directly outside the exit advertising $10 pp to the airport. We found the taxi line. It is to the right when you exit the front door, right around the corner, out of sight. We got in our taxi at 10:04 am. Our fare for the taxi minivan is $45 to get to TPA

Good looks and charm get you a long way in this world!!

Six Immigration stations are operating out of a total eight.

No rioting yet, but it's a little frustrating to get to your bags because of how crowded things are. Once you get them, it's hard to get in line to get out. A lot of cross traffic.

Garbage, recycle, and us passengers are being dumped off here.

Our Group 20 was just called. 9:08 am

Baggage Tag Number 17 was just called at 9:04 am. We're going to stick with our originally assigned number of 20.

At 9 am the PA announcer encouraged us to look at our Celebrity App for departure information. When I just checked out, we've been moved to Group 13. How lucky.

The current scene at Deck 3. No lines to get off. The lines are probably inside the cruise terminal.