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Cruisin'
Feb 6, 2008 (4 photos)

... watch the waves go by. After an obligatory safety drill, we all gathered on the top deck for a party as we set sail. We crowded the rails, waiting and watching until we pulled out of Port Everglades and waved Fort Lauderdale goodbye. We're at sea.

Day 1
Jul 20, 2007 (26 photos)

... and left about an hour late. July 19, 2007 9:30 PM EDT We arrived in Fort Lauderdale to hot and humid weather. The little yarn balls made our luggage easy to ...

Day 19
May 21, 2009 (4 photos)

... folks around are annuals - live twelve months a year in their RV and can't help us.  Finally we find adequate barracks in Fort Lauderdale.   Ted rents a car (has a bachelor party in Tampa for the weekend).  We cruise in the KIA (weird ...

Sawgrass Mills Day - YEE HA
Apr 9, 2007 (5 photos)

... our family beach bum launching himself into the waves and being thrown around by the surf. Then we walked along the shoreline to Lauderdale-By -The- Sea pier. This is an old style fishing pier, with bars, beach shops and restaurants all around it. After& ...

Fort lauderdaleF
Apr 7, 2007 (3 photos)

Well dear readers I am going to start this entry in the middle of a sentence because I have left behind  an essential bit of paper.......,so you could see an amazing array of street lights and all the car lights on the highways and right below us was the ...

Day 28, 29 & 30: Miami & Fort Lauderdale
Jul 31, 2008 (24 photos)

...  3 was a trip north to Palm Beach which we enjoyed but for all the driving we wished we'd stayed put on the nicer Fort Lauderdale beach right near our hotel! Tomorrow we leave Florida, which is why we can now make comment about the bugs without fear ...

Cruise Day 1: Fort Lauderdale
Mar 1, 2009 (8 photos)

... And he succeeded. Good man. And then he got the bunk down: As the ship left Fort Lauderdale, we were given a coastguard escort (and a lot of honking of air-horns from the shore ...

Day 2 - Embarkation Day
Mar 31, 2007 (2 photos)

... sink his teeth into the pure white eggshell ( I  can only presume sense of touch is totallu caput! )Then we set off for Fort Lauderdale, abpout 1/2 hour away for anyone else, but we did quite well here with it taking 1 hour and 1 detour. En route we ...

CLEAN UP DAY
Dec 6, 2008

We reluctantly left our 'slice of paradise' this morning, and headed for the bigger city of Fort Lauderdale.  Not to see the city as such, but to find a 'clean up' campsite.  Tomorrow our truck goes back.   Yep our 3 months is up, and ...

Setting Sail
Nov 10, 2008

Sailing from Port Everglades, Ft. Lauderdale - Florida

nasa
Mar 4, 2004 (4 photos)

"If I could just get your John Hancock right there...!"

Day 3- Lounging About At Sea
Apr 1, 2007 (1 photos)

The kids and Daphne and bob are in inside rooms while me n H lord it up in a balcony room. Pure luxury. I am writing this to copy up later, having justtaken breakfast on our balcony. Those who know me well will be very pleased for me because the balconies ...

Ft Launderdale March 15-17
Mar 17, 2009 (24 photos)

... in among them are 1950's build quad-condos with their jalousied windows and behind all this are the skyscrapers along the Ft Lauderdale beaches.  Such contrasts and all of it beautiful. .  And then you see the mansion that sits on the ...

Fort Lauderdale...ALL Day
Jul 20, 2007 (22 photos)

We're staying on the 8th floor of the Hampton and it was fun throwing open the curtains this morning to see something different. Too bad we're not facing the ocean...even if it is a couple of miles away. [EDIT] Around 7:45 am we drug ourselves ...

The Exodus (New Smyrna to Ft Lauderdale)
Mar 9, 2009 (48 photos)

... to end the day at the Royal Palm YC 3:15. March 15, 2009 - Knowing that we didn't have too far to go to the Ft Lauderdale area - Coral Ridge YC, we took our time leaving Royal Palm YC in Boca.  Fueled up - only used 20 gallons so far - washed the ...

Starting the circle tour
Jul 20, 2007

We headed west along route 75 to get to our first stop - Big Cypress Preserve Visitor's Center. The center is on route 41, but we thought we'd just drop down near the visitor's center and get our passport stamped. Ironically, because the Big Cypress ...

In-Port, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Jan 31, 2009 (7 photos)

Unhappily our short stay at Walt Disney World came to an and and we drove down to Fort Lauderdale early this morning to embark on our cruise.  An uneventfull trip in a rental car because Jim "some navigator!" Eakins remembered to bring along his GPS ...

The Finale
Dec 7, 2006

This is my fourth attempt at a final post. It's raining here in Vancouver today. I don't really know if you could call it rain, though. Temperatures are somewhere just above freezing and just below melting. Huge, billowy snowflakes turn, before your ...

Return FromFlordia
Sep 17, 2008

... I assure you God is alive and working and if you haven't given your life to Jesus Christ now is the time. I depart from the states soon as we all will depart from this life. For this temporary life is a journey to the final realties. As surely as I depart ...

rocket science
Nov 12, 2006 (3 photos)

... , this was a free service. It was a Nissan Xterra driveaway that we picked up from a nervous and suspicious looking mexican in Fort Lauderdale, this thing was big and loved lots of petrol. Sharon drove it quite a bit, we were both very calm as Sharon ...

Florida Circle Tour Reflections and Recollections
Jul 28, 2007

We are at the end of our trip - we will be headed home later today (hopefully - our airline has labor problems and many flights are cancelled at the end of the month). We usually try to list our trip favorites, so here goes: Best Beach: St. Augustine ...

outsmarting the Spring Breakers...
Mar 16, 2009 (7 photos)

... was walk around Las Olas Blvd. a little bit to take some pictures and of course I went over to the beach. I really like Fort Lauderdale...it's definitely a contendor on for my favorite Florida city. So far it's down to Fort Lauderdale and St. Petersburg.

SURPRISE!!!!
Oct 17, 2007 (20 photos)

Tonight was the big night for my mom's surprise 60th birthday party at Chima.

Fort Lauderdale Beer Festival
Apr 12, 2008 (5 photos)

Diana and I went for the second year in a row to the Fort Lauderdale Beer Festival.  It is a great location in downtown Fort Lauderdale; all the streets are closed off and there and tons of vendors with beer and food.  This year they also had ...

Sianara Florida
Jun 16, 2007 (6 photos)

Well, today is the big day our journey begins....we will be packing the Uhaul and then start driving northwest for 7 days. Yes, we driving the Migun Minivan across country and for all of you who doubt the Plymouth Voyager, we'll show you!  We& ...

Shopping and gasping
Aug 15, 2008 (7 photos)

... afterwards to reduce some of the humidity at this time of year in Florida. In the evening we drove to nearby Fort Lauderdale for dinner. Its quite similar to Benidorm with lots of restaurants in the seafront and musicians competiting with each other ...

First day of travel
Feb 5, 2008 (2 photos)

... . (At least it wasn't by way of China!) Thankfully the Tucson contingent and the San Francisco contingent met at the Fort Lauderdale airport at roughly the same time, and from there the hotel shuttle brought us to a surprisingly decent dinner and now to ...

cruisin'
Oct 18, 2007

Shelley, Damian, Diana and I arrived to the port around 2PM and were on board the cruise ship by 4PM.  We met up with my parents, Ucle Barry, Aunt Elaine, Uncle Russ, Aunt Jane and cousins Jason, David, Linda, Fran and Leo. We were able to get an ...

Going home
May 13, 2005 (5 photos)

This is to be updated as we can't (as yet) predict the future G&J