Day 30: Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale turnarounds are a blur for us...get shaken out of bed by thrusters turning ship into position at Pier 2, look at clock in cabin, remember ship's clocks moved back an hour last night and try to figure out what time it REALLY is, throw on clothes and leave inside cabin and go to Terrace Deck, complain about how cold it is to anyone who will listen, iPhone, Internet, find where breakfast is being served (Botticelli on turnaround days) and go there, eat, remark to G that I don't like the Botticelli Dining Room, go up to buffet for more iPhone and Internet access since it is too cold and windy to sit outside, return to cabin to get passports, go to DaVinci Dining Room to await in transit immigration march, enter terminal, wait for something to happen, flash passport to ICE agent, wait for something to happen, re-board ship, return to cabin, put passports back in safe, plug phone in in buffet to be able to continue to iPhone, Internet, go to lunch in the DaVinci Dining Room, more iPhone and Internet, this time for work, run to store (G, as I had work to do), struggle to find quiet place on ship to make important phone calls (usually Adagio works but I arrived during piano tuning, so it didn't), answer phone calls from G asking for clarification of items on shopping list, finally exhaust iPhone battery, nearly freeze to death because the ship is SO COLD on turnaround days and today's weather in Fort Lauderdale didn't help, consider pulling out suitcase with fleece pullover in it, call Mom with updated departure time information, call Mom again to tell her not to bother to watch for us on Port Everglades webcam at sailaway because it is too cold and windy to be outside on an open deck, decide I'm clean enough for dinner so skip showering, dress in warmest evening outfit I have, buy soda stickers after ship reaches international water to avoid Fort Lauderdale tax, go to dinner, listen to some live music, return to cabin, flip through TV channels all offering safety and hand washing instructions, fall asleep. 

Really.