Well
into our trip now. We've been fully immersed in Disneyworld, and only
have one day left. This will be followed by 6 days of holidaying
about Florida, then by 15 days on a cruiseship.
So with all that fun ahead, I get an email from the travel agent that booked the cruise part of our trip demanding we print out some document, sign it, and fax it back. Fax? What is this; the 1990s? I wrote back saying we will NOT be using vacation time on this nonsense.
She wrote back first thing next day, apologized, and said don't worry as all is well.
***
Today it's our first full day at Miami Beach. This phase of the trip is all about relaxing; a vacation from our vacation, if you will.
The clock says it's noonish, but who cares. Helen is bobbing in the waves, and I'm baking in the sun. I was in the water, but can't do it forever like you-know-who. We are doing a city tour tomorrow, but today has been keeping it beach bummie.
Our hotel up by Disneyworld was pretty shabby and we called it the Bates Motel. Can't expect much for $26 a night. Our beachfront resort here is a bargain at about three times the price. The toilet flushes and everything. Our co-traveller, Lola, says she's glad we went from shabby to nice, and not the other way around. I concur.
***
So with all that fun ahead, I get an email from the travel agent that booked the cruise part of our trip demanding we print out some document, sign it, and fax it back. Fax? What is this; the 1990s? I wrote back saying we will NOT be using vacation time on this nonsense.
She wrote back first thing next day, apologized, and said don't worry as all is well.
***
Today it's our first full day at Miami Beach. This phase of the trip is all about relaxing; a vacation from our vacation, if you will.
The clock says it's noonish, but who cares. Helen is bobbing in the waves, and I'm baking in the sun. I was in the water, but can't do it forever like you-know-who. We are doing a city tour tomorrow, but today has been keeping it beach bummie.
Our hotel up by Disneyworld was pretty shabby and we called it the Bates Motel. Can't expect much for $26 a night. Our beachfront resort here is a bargain at about three times the price. The toilet flushes and everything. Our co-traveller, Lola, says she's glad we went from shabby to nice, and not the other way around. I concur.
***
It was three nights at Miami Beach, then two at Key West, and now we are back for one more at Miami Beach. Tomorrow we turn in the car, and climb aboard the Caribbean Princess for two weeks of cruising the Bahamas and Caribbean Sea. It's all been about perfect so far.
We have been picking up stuff as we go. There wasn't much leeway in our bags at the start, so now we also haul about a collection of boxes and shopping bags. This won't really matter until our flight home, but today we board the boat. They have no restrictions on crap, but we can only handle a certain amount of junk physically. If we get it all stowed right the boarding will be perfectly pleasant. If not, then it won't.
I've bought sunglasses, two pairs of shorts, two shirts, two tshirts, and a pair of sandals. That's actually quite a bit in itself, and Helen has purchased at least as much, and collected an impressive sack of seashells.
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