Getting up on a few hours sleep was no problem this morning, cus we’re heading to the airport! Back to Newark, better weather so no delays and a domestic flight to catch.
Easy right?
We arrived at the airport with 55 mins until take off. Time to check in. ☑️Next join the snaking line to get through security. We weaved around and around, each time we thought we were getting close to the security scanners we were diverted to another line! This would have been fine if we had time to spare. Eventually we got to the scanners, put our stuff through and walked through the person scanner. After what felt like an eternity, our stuff came out, separated by what seemed to be an entire airport’s worth of cabin bags!
Grab the stuff, RUN.
Gate 127 was further away than necessary but we made it just in time for the final boarding call. We got on the plane, take off and landing within 2.5hrs. And where did we find ourselves..?
West Palm Beach, FL.
That’s right, time for vacation within a vacation. Em + T travelling the states together for the first time! First stop, breakfast at Smoothie Whirld. Next, we were on the hunt for some aloe gel and some extra spf since the flight limited our liquid allowance. Shopping done, time for our next adventure.
Grand Celebration
Now if you know me, you’ll know I love to cruise. I’m a total preacher about it, I just think you can’t get much better than staying in a luxury all inclusive 5* hotel that sails overnight meaning you wake up in a different location every day. Taylor knows this so we had to plan this in to my visit. She’s never cruised before but found a great deal and so here we are!
I’ll throw in a couple of anecdotes about the staff we’ve met so far. First, check in at the port terminal, a guy directing the line to which check in desks to go to, Taylor spots one so asks if we can go over, the guy says no, then is like wait which one? So we’re like number 7, and he sends another group to that desk!
Next, we get to the check in desk, ask a load of questions and the lady says nothing is included in the price we paid, despite us booking an all inclusive deal, we later discovered this is a lie! Then she gets her ipad out and holds it up, Taylor looks at something the other way and the lady is like what you doing I’m trying to get your picture, so I was like but you didn’t tell her that!! Pics done, we’re finally on board.
We explored the boat, found the buffet of course and booked ourselves onto a trip for tomorrow- no spoilers. Later on it was dinner time, there was a party going on in one the lounges that we watched for a bit and then tried to get a glimpse of the spacex rocket launch about 100 miles away from us but no luck. We headed in to the restaurant (which was included..) and were seated at a table with 2 sisters from Wyoming so had lots of fun conversation with them! Then a lady came round to take our photo right in the middle of the entrees!
Then it was show time, my favourite time! We went into the biggest theatre found our seats and settled in for a classic cruise ship show of singing dancing and acrobatics.
Afterwards I was so wiped we went straight to bed, ready for tomorrow!
Speak soon,
Em x
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