#13   .  .  .   and beyond   .  .  .

Heading Home  

I'm not one to be superstitious, but I find it odd that our journey home should be #13 .  .  . the dreaded unlucky #13 . . .  maybe there's a reason that day 8 of our cruise would end up being page #13 in this blog.  Very curious, indeed!

Getting off the ship was actually easier than getting on and we found our luggage and the shuttle service without too much ado. The trip back to Orlando was thankfully uneventful, but it brought us back to the airport several hours before our flight.  There really isn't that much to do in an airport for that long, but we managed to find a place to get a snack and a coffee.  We were so early that they wouldn't let us check our luggage yet, so we hauled them around with us for another hour.

There were shops and boutiques lining the promenade deck of the ship and we had purchased two bottles of Sheridan liqueur.  The double bottle design poured dark coffee flavoured liqueur and a light cream concoction at the same time.  It's a neat looking bottle and the taste wasn't bad either.

To protect them from damage I packed each bottle in a re usable plastic zipper bag stuffed in the middle of the checked luggage.  Everyone knows you can't bring bottles of liquids on the plane unless they are in duty free sealed packages, so I thought they were safe and sound in the plastic bags, in the luggage, surrounded by our clothes and shoes.


Our flight had a layover at Newark N.J. and we finally had the call to board our tiny plane.  It was an Embraer jet that had two seats on one side and one on the other.  Regular carry on wouldn't fit in the tiny over head bins located on the double seat side only, so everything had to go in cargo.  Our seats were right across the very back of the cabin and our backs were continually pummeled as the airport workers threw luggage into the back of our seats.  After a long day of travel, this is NOT a good thing to go through.  I can't imagine it was very good for the luggage either!