1 if by land, 2 if by sea...

And in our case, 3 if by car...

I am referring to the trip down to Florida before the cruise (Yay!) and the trip back from Florida after the cruise (Boo!). 

I just thought I would address this now since we already have our plans on how we will get back and forth.  We plan to drive.  This cruise departs Florida on Sunday, July 5th.  Since July 4th lands on a weekend, my work will most likely give us Friday July 3rd as a Holiday.  So, John and I will most likely start the drive down to Florida after work on Thursday, July 2nd.  John and Quentin are fans of driving straight through to the final destination so I would almost bet we will do that.

You all can fly down if you would like, drive, take more days than us to drive (like my parents plan to), walk, run, take a train, or whatever you want.  I just want to see all of your happy, smiling faces on the morning of Sunday, 7/5 as we board the ship!!

What will we do for Saturday?  We will either rent a hotel near the port (I love seeing the ships) or at Cocoa Beach (Can anyone say Motel 6, Schmelz family?  That is where we stayed in the Cocoa Beach area prior to the Disney cruise in 2006!  LOL).  I will post more about hotels soon enough.

Where will we leave our car?  Well...  I will be posting about that soon too.  You can park at the port.  Or there is another parking garage supposedly right across the street from port.  Or some hotels offer a cruise package and you can leave your car at the hotel and they will shuttle you to port.  We like to get to the port as early as is reasonable on sailing day so we can board the earliest.  You paid for that first day onboard, why not soak up every last minute?

Ahoy matey's!  This was just a little food for thought on transportation to the port.  More information to come soon on hotels and parking. 

We are all adults and can get ourselves down there, but I am curious what others are doing.  So, if you want to share with me, I would love to listen!

Can we go yet?  (I am starting to wonder if I will make that my last sentence on all of my posts!)