Florida

  • Embarkation

    It was really nice sleeping in today after the long, long day that we had yesterday. We took our time getting to the Port Everglades cruise terminal. I dropped Karen off at our ship the Nieuw Amsterdam while I headed over to the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Airport to drop off the car. It took longer than…

  • Beating the snow

    The best way to celebrate your birthday is to take a trip.  Karen’s birthday is coming up so we decided on a cruise. We headed down to Toronto yesterday afternoon for two reason.  Reason number one is that Karen’s brother Ross and his wife Susie live there and were kind enough to let us stay over and…

  • Back to reality

    Today was our last day of vacation.  We did not want to get moving too quickly so we took our time packing up the car.  We somehow managed to fit every last piece of luggage.  It was a bit cramped for Nana and Karen in the back.  We wanted Nana and Papa to see some…

  • Mangia, mangia

    It was much different sleeping on a bed that is not moving last night so everyone had a bit of a sleep in.  Once we finally got going, it was close to lunch time so we decided to go to Olive Garden since Nana and Papa have never been.  All of us enjoyed the soup,…