Lovetocruise2002

Just landed! Hallelujah! 
Now in search of lost luggage…

Just landed! Hallelujah! 
Now in search of lost luggage…

Just landed! Hallelujah! 
Now in search of lost luggage…

Possibly while wearing shorts to dinner because, did I mention that my checked baggage is taking it’s own unknown journey to MIA? Hopefully the bag and I meet up in a few hours when we land, if not, I promised the group that I am a way better dresser than what they will see the following week! Lol
In all honesty, I am so exhausted that I will just thank God if I make it later today. Funny how life works. I have been stressing over those negative tests for weeks, and in the end, that was the easy part. 

Just landed! Hallelujah! 
Now in search of lost luggage…

Possibly while wearing shorts to dinner because, did I mention that my checked baggage is taking it’s own unknown journey to MIA? Hopefully the bag and I meet up in a few hours when we land, if not, I promised the group that I am a way better dresser than what they will see the following week! Lol
In all honesty, I am so exhausted that I will just thank God if I make it later today. Funny how life works. I have been stressing over those negative tests for weeks, and in the end, that was the easy part. 

Possibly while wearing shorts to dinner because, did I mention that my checked baggage is taking it’s own unknown journey to MIA? Hopefully the bag and I meet up in a few hours when we land, if not, I promised the group that I am a way better dresser than what they will see the following week! Lol
In all honesty, I am so exhausted that I will just thank God if I make it later today. Funny how life works. I have been stressing over those negative tests for weeks, and in the end, that was the easy part. 

Omg! This trip just took a huge turn for the worst! 
 
While sitting at the gate at DTW, they cancelled our flight. We managed to get ourselves rescheduled on another flight to MCO and then MIA. Breathing a sigh of relief, we sit down at that gate, and that flight got cancelled too! By now I am in tears and ready to call it quits. All flights out of DTW to anywhere in Florida were sold out because of all the cancellations today, and the delta reps basically told me sorry, too bad. 
 
This is where my TA is worth her weight in more than gold. This sailing isn’t even hers. It is the last one I had booked with my former dud TA. She worked like crazy to find us a way to MIA before tomorrow. Now we are in a rental car, driving ourselves to Pittsburgh, to catch a 6am flight to Miami tomorrow. Not exactly how I envisioned by pre-cruise night, but if I can actually make it there tomorrow, I will be forever grateful. 
 

Possibly while wearing shorts to dinner because, did I mention that my checked baggage is taking it’s own unknown journey to MIA? Hopefully the bag and I meet up in a few hours when we land, if not, I promised the group that I am a way better dresser than what they will see the following week! Lol
In all honesty, I am so exhausted that I will just thank God if I make it later today. Funny how life works. I have been stressing over those negative tests for weeks, and in the end, that was the easy part. 

Possibly while wearing shorts to dinner because, did I mention that my checked baggage is taking it’s own unknown journey to MIA? Hopefully the bag and I meet up in a few hours when we land, if not, I promised the group that I am a way better dresser than what they will see the following week! Lol
In all honesty, I am so exhausted that I will just thank God if I make it later today. Funny how life works. I have been stressing over those negative tests for weeks, and in the end, that was the easy part. 

Possibly while wearing shorts to dinner because, did I mention that my checked baggage is taking it’s own unknown journey to MIA? Hopefully the bag and I meet up in a few hours when we land, if not, I promised the group that I am a way better dresser than what they will see the following week! Lol
In all honesty, I am so exhausted that I will just thank God if I make it later today. Funny how life works. I have been stressing over those negative tests for weeks, and in the end, that was the easy part. 

Once you board tomorrow and have many drinks things will be better!  Our family is praying for nothing but smooth traveling going forward. It’ll all be an ugly memory tomorrow night with first taste of filet. Hang in there friend

@Lovetocruise2002is living out Trains, Planes, and Automobiles! Looking forward to having a drink with you tomorrow! ❤ Safe travels!

Omg this is just so awful!!! Praying you make it without any further problems.  

The weather here in Florida is bad, torrential rains and strong winds. It took us all day to get here as Alligator alley was closed and there were so many accidents I stopped counting. It usually takes us 5 hours with fuel stop, rest break to include half of pub sub. Today one fuel break and that was it, 8 + hours later we just arrived. Routing for you all the way...

OMG what a nightmare.  At least you have a path forward even if is a big, fat PITA.
Let’s just pray that the weather-related back-ups are cleared out of the way by tomorrow morning.

Omg! This trip just took a huge turn for the worst! 
 
While sitting at the gate at DTW, they cancelled our flight. We managed to get ourselves rescheduled on another flight to MCO and then MIA. Breathing a sigh of relief, we sit down at that gate, and that flight got cancelled too! By now I am in tears and ready to call it quits. All flights out of DTW to anywhere in Florida were sold out because of all the cancellations today, and the delta reps basically told me sorry, too bad. 
 
This is where my TA is worth her weight in more than gold. This sailing isn’t even hers. It is the last one I had booked with my former dud TA. She worked like crazy to find us a way to MIA before tomorrow. Now we are in a rental car, driving ourselves to Pittsburgh, to catch a 6am flight to Miami tomorrow. Not exactly how I envisioned by pre-cruise night, but if I can actually make it there tomorrow, I will be forever grateful. 
 

Omg! This trip just took a huge turn for the worst! 
 
While sitting at the gate at DTW, they cancelled our flight. We managed to get ourselves rescheduled on another flight to MCO and then MIA. Breathing a sigh of relief, we sit down at that gate, and that flight got cancelled too! By now I am in tears and ready to call it quits. All flights out of DTW to anywhere in Florida were sold out because of all the cancellations today, and the delta reps basically told me sorry, too bad. 
 
This is where my TA is worth her weight in more than gold. This sailing isn’t even hers. It is the last one I had booked with my former dud TA. She worked like crazy to find us a way to MIA before tomorrow. Now we are in a rental car, driving ourselves to Pittsburgh, to catch a 6am flight to Miami tomorrow. Not exactly how I envisioned by pre-cruise night, but if I can actually make it there tomorrow, I will be forever grateful. 
 

Look for the really frazzled family in terminal A. The FB group for the sailing is blowing up today. Looks like a lot of people and their flights have been impacted. 

Omg! This trip just took a huge turn for the worst! 
 
While sitting at the gate at DTW, they cancelled our flight. We managed to get ourselves rescheduled on another flight to MCO and then MIA. Breathing a sigh of relief, we sit down at that gate, and that flight got cancelled too! By now I am in tears and ready to call it quits. All flights out of DTW to anywhere in Florida were sold out because of all the cancellations today, and the delta reps basically told me sorry, too bad. 
 
This is where my TA is worth her weight in more than gold. This sailing isn’t even hers. It is the last one I had booked with my former dud TA. She worked like crazy to find us a way to MIA before tomorrow. Now we are in a rental car, driving ourselves to Pittsburgh, to catch a 6am flight to Miami tomorrow. Not exactly how I envisioned by pre-cruise night, but if I can actually make it there tomorrow, I will be forever grateful. 
 

Omg! This trip just took a huge turn for the worst! 
 
While sitting at the gate at DTW, they cancelled our flight. We managed to get ourselves rescheduled on another flight to MCO and then MIA. Breathing a sigh of relief, we sit down at that gate, and that flight got cancelled too! By now I am in tears and ready to call it quits. All flights out of DTW to anywhere in Florida were sold out because of all the cancellations today, and the delta reps basically told me sorry, too bad. 
 
This is where my TA is worth her weight in more than gold. This sailing isn’t even hers. It is the last one I had booked with my former dud TA. She worked like crazy to find us a way to MIA before tomorrow. Now we are in a rental car, driving ourselves to Pittsburgh, to catch a 6am flight to Miami tomorrow. Not exactly how I envisioned by pre-cruise night, but if I can actually make it there tomorrow, I will be forever grateful. 
 

I will start with our intros….
Because this is March Break in Ontario, this sailing is with Hubby and the girls.  Hubby and I sailed just before Christmas on Allure, but this will be the first sailing back for the girls since July 2019!  Needless to say, they have missed it greatly, and I think they are most excited for…wait for it…Sorrento’s pizza! SMH
Flying DTW – FLL on Saturday morning (cheaper and better times than going to MIA) and taking a ride share to Miami.  That’s the flight plan.  You can probably guess our hotel, but if not, stay tuned!
Allan F. is our Genie.  I cannot wait to meet him after all that I have heard about him from many others and if @Rags1is ready to adopt him, then we must be in for a treat.
We don’t have much planned in terms of excursions for this sailing.  We did not pre-book anything and will likely just do some self exploring if we decide to get off the ship.
Once again, in the spirit of a live blog, feel free and don’t hesitate to follow along and ask anything.  You can also follow me along on IG: @lovetocruise2002 as I will be posting there too.

Look for the really frazzled family in terminal A. The FB group for the sailing is blowing up today. Looks like a lot of people and their flights have been impacted. 

Omg! This trip just took a huge turn for the worst! 
 
While sitting at the gate at DTW, they cancelled our flight. We managed to get ourselves rescheduled on another flight to MCO and then MIA. Breathing a sigh of relief, we sit down at that gate, and that flight got cancelled too! By now I am in tears and ready to call it quits. All flights out of DTW to anywhere in Florida were sold out because of all the cancellations today, and the delta reps basically told me sorry, too bad. 
 
This is where my TA is worth her weight in more than gold. This sailing isn’t even hers. It is the last one I had booked with my former dud TA. She worked like crazy to find us a way to MIA before tomorrow. Now we are in a rental car, driving ourselves to Pittsburgh, to catch a 6am flight to Miami tomorrow. Not exactly how I envisioned by pre-cruise night, but if I can actually make it there tomorrow, I will be forever grateful. 
 

It's almost here! 28 months in the making, #MajorStarClassTakeover on Oasis of the Seas 3/13/2022!
28 months ago, a group of us decided it would be fun to book a March Break sailing together all in Star Class.  There was a great deal on Oasis of the Seas at the time and we thought why not?  None of us have ever been a star class sailing where the majority already knew each other. We lost a few dear friends along the way who had to cancel for various reasons, picked up some new friends, some of us have sailed together before, some of us have known each other for quite some time and are just meeting now. We have a total of 10 out of 13 SC rooms accounted for from our group. I am beyond excited for this sailing! It’s going to be a special one!
Because this is an unofficial group cruise, it won’t be your typical blog.  There’s not going to be much of a preamble, and there will be more than one of us blogging.  From our RCBlog community, we’ll have @tiny260, @Neesa, @bellemiche, and @ShakeDownCruise, hopefully they all jump into this and not leave me high and dry lol
As far as the Star Class pre-cruise stuff goes, most of us got our pre-cruise surveys about 8 weeks out.  Genies reached out about 4-5 weeks ago.  The protocols for Star have not changed since December so if you are wanting to know what sailing Star is like during Covid, see past Star Class blogs (between summer 2021-present) by others or myself. I will not bother to bog down this blog with PDFs and literature, unless someone really want to see it, then I can post.
Here is our itinerary (we think lol) for this sailing:
SUN 13 MAR MIAMI, FLORIDA
MON 14 MAR NASSAU, BAHAMAS
TUE 15 MAR CRUISING
WED 16 MAR CHARLOTTE AMALIE, ST. THOMAS
THU 17 MAR SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
FRI 18 MAR LABADEE, HAITI
SAT 19 MAR CRUISING
SUN 20 MAR MIAMI, FLORIDA