Waving Goodbye to Cruise Life

Pinkies up!

The cruise docked into West Palm Beach early on Saturday, we got up and packed up and then went to eat breakfast out on the deck for the last time. The weather was amazing as always and we soaked up the last few holiday rays before we disembarked.
We gathered our things and went down to deck 5 to get off the ship and go through the terminal. Little did we know, we were to join the back of the longest, snaking queue I've seen in a long time. We waited about half an hour and had barely moved an inch, then Carlos directed us to the back of another very long line. I couldn't even see the end, so I asked him what we were queuing for to which he replied, US customs. I asked how long we would be waiting, he said 1-2 hours !!!!! So I queried what if we had a flight to catch (I mean it wasn't until 3pm but worth a try), he said show me your booking and he'll let us through. So we did, and he let us join a slightly shorter line. Nice one.
Eventually, we got through to the desk, passports checked, even got another stamp!

Finally, we're out in the big wide world of FL, time to uber to the outlets for Starbucks, shopping and lunch before heading to the airport. A few bargains and some Asian food from Pei Wei later, it was time to head to the airport. We were ready to get back to New Jersey now, just a short 3hr flight to go. Or so we thought.. I had been catching up on Love Island, minding my own business when the pilot comes on the tannoy to tell us he tried to land the plane, but was still a bit high and fast to ground it so had broken the flaps on the wings, he was gonna fly out a little bit to try and get lower and slower to come in again, and that the emergency services had been called to the runway- just in case. Great. Let's just see what happens.

We did manage to land safely, the baby on my row finally stopped crying after 2 hours and the whole plane erupted into a round of applause! I've been on a lot of flights and this is the first time I've seen this so I was cracking up! Big up to Will (Taylor's bf) for picking us up from the airport in his swish brand new exec car.

We got back to the house, Taylor's parents had made us dinner and her sister had come round so that was a nice surprise! Then she took us all to Cliff's for ice cream. Only in America can you get 100s of flavours of homemade ice cream on the side of the main road!

Afterwards, we went back and upacked, and for me- repacked cus tomorrow I fly back to the UK!

Got to make the most of this time here!

Speak soon, 

Em x