Pre-Embarkation…Before the Journey Starts

Friday, January 30, 2015

We arrived in Fort Lauderdale in the early afternoon and stayed at the Spring Hill Suites in Dania Beach, Florida.  This was a great location for restaurants within walking distance and shops for buying the items that we needed and had not packed before boarding tomorrow.  The hotel also provides a free shuttle bus to take us to Port Everglades and our ship and provides a great breakfast buffet was included in our one-night stay.  The pool was warm and refreshing and we spent the afternoon enjoying the 77° Fahrenheit afternoon and early evening temperatures.

In the evening we walked to the shopping center across the road from our hotel and stocked up on toiletries, wine and munchies that we would take along on the cruise.  With a K-Mart so close by, we had no difficulty in carrying our extra “goods” back to the hotel.  We ate a light supper at Chipotle and walked back to our hotel and called our friends, Bill and Stella, who will be meeting us tomorrow at the pier.  We met them on our world cruise and they were our tablemates for the whole trip.  Since they are from Ottawa, Canada, they had a much longer journey with several plane changes before arriving in Fort Lauderdale.  We are getting anxious to see them at the pier tomorrow.