I’ve never met so many people happy about traveling home tomorrow after our cruise. Usually, there are a lot of glum people upset that the cruise is over and they “don’t want to go home.” But, in reality, you know that we do want to go home. We just say that to express disappointment that a vacation has ended.
However, yesterday, we were introduced to a possibility reality, that our cruise would be over but that we would not be getting home because of a nation-wide grounding of all planes. Across the entire nation? The last time that happened was at 9/11.
Apparently, yesterday they were upgrading infrastructure and something went wrong, very wrong, and radar and other communications either went bye bye or were unreliable. Of course, the blame is being placed on individual companies, aging infrastructure, and the like. But being faced with not going home by air? That was stressful.
I, like many others, jumped online yesterday early evening, and snagged a hotel room for myself in Miami in case the ground stoppage was going to be prolonged. God knows how scarce hotel rooms would become and how expensive they would be when the hotels knew that they had us.
This afternoon, I got an email push notification from AA that my flight was scheduled for tomorrow and projected on time and that I could check in. So, I checked in to the flight and canceled my hotel reservation.
I’m ready to come home after all of that. And besides, it won’t be for long since I will be leaving toward the end of December (December 26th to be exact) for my first time as a snowbird. I’ll be gone from December 26 to the end of February. Half the time at Disney and half the time on board the Harmony of the Seas.
I’m really getting into this gig called retirement. 🙂
Going to bed early tonight as I have to leave the ship tomorrow at 6:00 a.m.
g’night