Friday, December 11, 2015

Cruise Adventure 2015...Getting There and 1st Day

Left Tampa Friday afternoon Dec 4th to met our friends, Ellie and Ernie & Linda and Ned, for dinner in Melbourne, FL the night before the cruise departure. But you know about "best made plans"..... arrived in Melbourne to find Ernie heading to a Quick Care facility with a medical emergency. Ernie and Ellie, are the friends we were to cruise with. 

Ernie and Ellie did not make the dinner or the cruise! Ernie was admitted to the hospital Friday evening and was cruising there for 3 nights. Ernie was released on Monday and is back home doing well. Lesson.....be sure to pay travel insurance!  
We did enjoy a great dinner with Linda and Ned, but the evening was topped off visiting the emergency room and finding out that our friends would not be joining us on our cruise adventure the next day. 

Meeting location at Indian River Colony, At Ease Club, for the bus to Fort Lauderdale, Fl and Port Everglades .


First look(through the rain) at our ship Royal Caribbean's "Independence of the Seas"


Terminal 25 to begin the check in....

Our stateroom with balcony on deck 7.....






Port Everglades view from our balcony

End of the 1st day evening entertainment at the Alhambra Theater and Latin Sounds of Dominican Quartet in the Boleros Lounge.


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