I woke up at 3:40 AM..ready to get dressed and brave the cold to watch this great vessel steam under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, but the pounding rain halted that plan! I rolled over and woke at 7:00 as planned. Dressed, breakfasted and was in the Royal Court Theater by 8:20 as requested on the Transfer I'd gotten to LaGuardia.
Announcements kept being made about tours leaving and other ticket transfers being called. Not Red 3 for LaGuardia. People around me began to bitch about missing flights. Didn't they read the notice they had to sign saying the ship provided no guarantee for meeting flights that left before noon!!! Jeez!
Turns out that rainstorm we steamed through had flooded the cruise terminal and shorted out elevators and escalators! No one was getting off until the luggage could all be unloaded, which process was hampered by no moving elevators. It took more than an hour for the QM2 personnel, the terminal personnel and the longshoremen to come to a solution. During that time, I met Ruth from Columbia, SC (whose grandmother was from Oldenburg in Germany and named Mayer….Holy Crap, we're probably related!!) We shared a seat on the transfer bus, traded, email info and enjoyed our brief encounter.
I headed right for Delta Sky Club, signed in and indulged in a light brunch while calling Sheila. I was pleased to have made the choice not to try to see her because she was ill again and I would have felt awful if she had tried to do anything to entertain me. I holed up in one of the comfortable sound-proofed cubicle seats provided by Delta, read a book, had a couple of Mimosas until they called my flight.
We arrived in Jax a few minutes early. I didn't have to wait for luggage as my bag had been delivered on a earlier flight to Jax. I scooped it up and walked out to meet Letreze and Bill while the others on my place were just beginning to line up around the luggage conveyor belt.
A good vacation. I believe I'll do it again.
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