La Quinta Inn Ft. Lauderdale Tamarac East Fort Lauderdale
3800 West Commercial Boulevard, (formerly Baymont Inn & Suites Ft. Lauderdale) Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33309-3316, United States
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Sea Day 2
A lazy day: up late. Breakfast upstairs, then morning trivia (we won on a tie-break). Then work for a couple of hours on proposal stuff. Then railroad game. Then lunch in dining room. Keegan took the Princess Theatre Backstage Tour. Then afternoon trivia (we won; the group that had accused us of cheating watched to make sure we weren't using ...
10 Things I Hate About U.S.A.
... Compact" car rentals that the rest of the world considers normal size! That was the case with Alamo, less so with Hertz.
11. Bolani - a type of Afghan flat bread in a variety of flavours (we loved pumpkin and spinach) with cilantro pesto and sweet jalapeno sauce - bought from a farmer's market in Mill Valley.
12. Cheap alcohol - 1.5litre name-branded (bottled!) wine like Gallo for $5.99, down to $3.50 in Nevada!
13. $5 tasty, pepperoni ...
Anchors Aweigh!
... down the escalator in FL, we saw a fellow holding up a "Regent" sign who greeted us by name, took our bags to a bus, and loaded them (and us) on board. One 5 minute drive (a coule of tips) later, we and our bags were at the cruise terminal. 15 minutes later and we had our keycards and champagne, and were in 822. 30 minutes and a couple of showers later and we were down in the Constellation Theatre (Muster Station A) going through the lifeboat dril (which ...
Which way to the BEACH????
... on the beach and we looked at two of them. The listing agent lived here so he showed us around- nice pool, beach, etc. The unit he showed us was very nice- huge balcony overlooking the ocean. Jacklyn then showed us another two bedroom unit in the same complex that was a foreclosure- unfurnished and $80,000 less. Craig and I both really liked this place and it actually had better upgrades than the other unit. We definitely put this on the list and ...
What a terrible place to spend the winter...
... The place was humming!
8th and 9th November - Diving!
We did our Advanced Diving course over these two days with a great Padi School in the Bahia Mar complex called Sea Experience. They were organised, well equiped, and we were very impressed with the staff and the boat. Our instructor was a fun Canadian girl called MarcyAnn McDonald and we had such a great timing diving with her. Despite a little seasickness on my part on day 1 (a bit ...



