HOME SWEET HOME

                                                           Saying bye last night to Kadek

                                                         Saying bye to Elena, head bartender

                                                             Dawn at port of Miami
        We docked in the port of Miami at 6am today.  They started off loading luggage at 7:15.  Room service showed up with our breakfast at 6:30.  (Too early for me to eat)  A lot of the crew had to get off and clear with immigration.

                                                      Bridge hooked up for our disembarkation
        Just as I suspected disembarkation did not start until 8:45 however we were among the very first off the ship.  Grabbed a porter right away, collected our luggage, and no line clearing immigration.  Our private van was there waiting for us so loaded all our luggage including Jane & Melissa's and the four of us headed to MIA airport.  Did curbside checking of luggage and maybe only 10 minute wait in line for security.  Anyway we were at our departure gate only one hour after leaving the ship. 

        Our plane was full but still left 3 minutes early so we arrived DFW a little early also.  We had a good DFW based F/A crew who took good care of us.

                                                                          Bloody Marys

                                                Damon distributing hot towel in first class

                                                   Bloody Mary and some hot nuts to start with.

                                           Neat feature on the tray in first class on the B737-800

                                       Rebecca enjoyed this spicy vegetable enchilada for lunch

Thought I had ordered the same online for me but this chicken wrap with blue cheese looked good too.  Too much food so I could only eat half of it.

                                         Had to save room for this freshly baked chocolate chip cookie.

        We had an hour and half to make our connection at DFW to our flight to DRO (Durango).  That's plenty of time.  Flight left 15 minutes late due to a small fuel spill under our wing.

     This flight is on an American Eagle jet.  We asked for these but put them in out bag for later. 

                We had a great first class F/A on our flight from Miami to Dallas.  He gave us all these.

        So we landed at 4:15 at the Durango airport.  The DoubleTree van was waiting for us as we parked in their lot in town while gone.  Since I am a Hilton Honors Diamond member he let us park there so saved a lot of money for taxis.  Stopped at post office and picked up our vacation held mail before stopping at Papa Murphy's to get a pizza to take home and bake for dinner.  This is our standard meal after returning from cruises.

        Got the Ford Escape unloaded and called my mom to tell her we were safely home. She worries about us when traveling.  We did have some damage to the corner wall in our guest's bedroom due to water backing up under shingles with the ice in gutter above there.  That side of the house does not get much winter sun to melt it.

        Wanted to get this posted today.  I will have one more posting tomorrow to sum up our cruise experience and explain the blog for any new viewers.  Right now we are enjoying a glass of chardonnay.  I need to get the oven on for our pizza.