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We had an amazing trip. We enjoyed our time on the Encore. Please ask any questions you may have and I will try to answer them the best I can! Here are a few videos that got done after I got past where they were in the review: Cocoa Beach! New Smyrna Beach! Stateroom Tour! There will be more coming shortly!

Interstate 90 US 97 over Blewitt Pass US 2/US 97 interchange We made it to Wenatchee! (6:37 pm EST/3:37 pm PST) We had to do some grocery shopping and hit Costco. We did all that as quickly as we could as we had been up 17 hours at this point. We finally made it to our hometown! (10:13 pm EST/7:13 pm PST) I had to shovel my way into the house, we had 3 inches of new snow. We had over two feet in the yard. We got everything into the house by 10:30 pm EST/7:30 pm PST. Total time from leaving the room at the hotel in Fort Lauderdale to getting everything in the house: 17 hours and 45 minutes. No wonder we were tired. We did go back to work the next day!

In the terminal! Heading down to the tram to head to the main terminal Tram ride! We collected our bags and made our way to the shuttle pickup. On the shuttle to pick up the car Back at the car! (2:30 pm EST/11:30 am PST) So my ring broke while we were on the cruise and we had to drop it off at Kay Jewelers in the Seattle area before heading out. I finally picked it up on 4/12, the first time I was able to get back over to the Seattle area. WA Highway 900 We stopped at Jack in the Box in Issaquah for some lunch before heading over the pass.

We made it! On the ground in Seattle (1:40 pm EST/10:40 am PST) South Satellite - S Concourse Concourse B Central Terminal Concourse C Coming around Concourse N Finally at the gate! (1:45 pm EST/10:45 am PST) Here is the landing video for the flight!

Interbay and Puget Sound Lake Union, Fremont, and Queen Ann Hill - Seattle Queen Anne and Magnolia Seattle Center and Uptown Downtown Seattle Elliot Bay Colman Dock and the waterfront West Seattle and Alki Lumen Field - Home of the Seahawks T-Mobile Park - Home of the Mariners Harbor Island and the BNSF Stacy Yard Union Pacific's Argo Yard Duwamish River

Spada Lake - Snohomish County, WA Mt. Baker in the distance Everett and Whidbey Island Sultan, WA Monroe, WA Monroe, US 2, WA 522, and the Skykomish River Snohomish and Everett Maltby, WA Whidbey Island WA 522 and Interstate 405 Kenmore Edmonds-Kingston Washington State Ferry Route Ballard and the Ballard Locks

Finally we got back over Washington (12:55 pm EST/9:55 am PST) Looking down on Spokane Valley Spokane International Airport (GEG) Fairchild Air Force Base - The strait line at the top of the base is US 2 and the diagonal line is the BNSF Columbia River Subdivision Reardan, WA on US 2 The fog layer over Eastern and Central Washington Cascade Mountains!

They held off on food until we got through some turbulence over the South. We are up near Indianapolis by this time (9:45 am EST/6:45 am PST) Looking down on Terra Haute, Indiana Finally breakfast got served! (10:00 am EST/7:00 am PST) We had Dutch baby pancakes with bacon and fruit. It was really good! We finally hit the snow over the Dakotas Somewhere over North Dakota Just into Montana (11:46 am EST/8:46 am PST) Just East of Great Falls, MT Missouri River near Great Falls, MT The Great Plains meeting the Rocky Mountains

Port Canaveral Edgewater, FL (8:15 am EST/5:15 am PST) Here is the video of the Fort Lauderdale Takeoff

North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport Saint Lucie Inlet

Up and away we go! See the airplane?

Time to board the board the airplane (7:00 am EST/4:00 am PST) The United flight next to us headed out, then it was our turn! Free from the tug! Time to take off from 10L! See the southwest flight at the end of the runway? Its go time! (7:47 am EST/4:47 am PST)

January 4th, 2023 Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida 4:51 am EST/1:51 am PST Time to head to the airport Waiting for the Uber Time to check the bags to Seattle Sad balloon Heading to Security (5:40 am EST/2:40 am PST) Heading to our gate - Gate C6 There is our 737-900!

We arrived at the hotel. Glo Hotel in Fort Lauderdale So I got stuck in the elevator for a few minutes We headed to dinner at Denny's, so we could get to bed early. It was time for Linner. We skipped Lunch and it was early for dinner. Mozzarella Sticks I got a burger Susan got chicken fried steak

We were flying out of Fort Lauderdale the next morning, so we caught an uber to our hotel for the night.

We were meeting Jason and Family up here. Finally, they said last call for disembarkation. We made our way down to head out. The Coast Guard was onboard running a drill with the crew. We cleared US Customs and Border Protection. Time to leave the ship. Goodbye Encore

Day 12 - Disembarkation Day January 3rd, 2023 Location: Miami, Florida, United States of America Guess what arrived at 6 am? That's right Almond Croissants! The line was short at Customer Service at this moment. Overnight the tree went away The Gingerbread display also went bye-bye Time to Savor the final breakfast in Savor. Fruit Salad and Cottage Cheese Yogurt Parfait French Toast with Bacon and Ham Eggs to order with bacon, ham, and hashbrowns. The view from our balcony this final morning. We headed out of the room to hang in the Observation lounge until they forced us to get off.

After dinner, we headed to Choir of Man! The Cast of Kinky Boots was in the audience for the show. Choir of Man did a send off to them at the end. We headed to bed. Our final sleep onboard the Encore.

So we hit Los Lobos for a second time! Margarita! Quesadilla Queso Fundido Tableside Guacamole Guacamole - I thought the Guacamole was a little small tonight. Cochinita Pibil Carne Asada Rice and beans Tortillas and Tamales Photo with Restaurant Manager Jay and General Manager Deepak Chocoflan and Coconut-Avacado Helado Torta de Chocolate and Vanilla Helado

Starbucks Tonight's MDR menu The sun setting on our final night aboard. So it was time to go to our meeting with the Park West Team. So we ended up getting three pieces this trip. Northern Quest - Jon Rattenbury Changing Winds - Kre8 We Olive A Teacher (We all love a teacher) - Michael Godard Rue was awesome to work with! Here are the pieces now hanging in our house! After finishing up our art business, we headed to dinner! --

It was time to pack our crap. I mean pack our suitcases! We grabbed some vacation hero cards and a mojito! Time to recognize the crew. Please make sure to recognize the awesome crew members! Since we were at the Art auction during lunchtime, we headed to the local for a afternoon snack to tide us over until dinner. Spinach and Artichoke Dip Caesar Salad and pretzel bites Time to drop our cards off! We filled out 6 cards this trip!

We headed to the Theater for the Deck and Engine Q & A Chief Engineer and the Captain We headed to the Photo Gallery to finish up our Photo package. I highly recommend a photo package if you enjoy taking photos of your trip. I use the photos for my photo that pops up when scanning in and out of the ship. You saw all the photos we selected throughout this review. We headed up to the room to get ready for the Grand Finale Art auction. We got down to the Social early, and looked closely at the display down there. Here are some cool little features! Then it was time to head into the auction! We had a good time and may have bought something!

Fruit Salad and Cottage Cheese Yogurt Parfait Biscuits and gravy Eggs Benedict - I had to have it this day, because its not offered on the final morning. Egg and Avocado Wrap

Susan finally joined the land of the living! We took a little walk around the back of the ship. Someone was finishing her almond croissants while walking Do you notice what is missing? They took the Christmas trees down overnight at least by Taste and Savor.

Like clockwork, at 6 am here came the Almond Croissants and coffee. I woke up to receive them, and then climbed back into bed for an hour. I then headed out on deck for my final day of Vitamin Sea! Cuba is in the distance It was another gorgeous day!