There is no need to get up early today as we have nothing planned until 11.00am. After a light breakfast, we headed to the cavern club on deck 6. We are attending a meet and greet and gift exchange organised by members of Cruise Critic. This is the first one of these that we have done, so not sure what to expect. For those that were participating in the gift exchange, they ask that you bring a gift relevant to where you live and had given a price of about $10. We had bought several items for our gift. Norwegian as normal had laid on a small buffet of drinks and cakes for us all which was unexpected but delightful as always. Many of key heads of departments were present and were happy to answer all ... read more

We did not have a particularly good night’s sleep last night. The main East coast Florida railroad line is just on the other side of the highway and we are right close to a junction. Trains in USA can be several miles long. Every train that went past last night had to blow it´s horn repeatedly as it crossed the junction to alert local cars. As we are so close to it, each train woke us both up. We must better plan for next time. This morning, we drove into the cruise port to work out if it is feasible for Theresa to drop George off in the morning with all the bags. Unfortunately, we could not get close enough, so could not answer the question. Then we headed to the Alamo rental office where we ... read more

Each time we walked over the bridge today we looked eagerly for the dolphins, but they did not reappear. It was great to see them yesterday though. Today, we caught the shuttle bus from stop 16 to the Alligator Farm. Neither of us knew what to expect, but we were both pleasantly surprised. The park has many huge open spaces full of alligators and crocodiles etc. Dotted around were machines where you could buy food for them for 25 cents and the animals seemed to know where these machines where. They did look to be very well looked after and fed, as they were not really that interested if you threw feed towards them. There were also a couple of areas exhibiting other animals and mammals from around the world which were very interesting. Up in ... read more

Another small drive today, so we decided to drive from Titusville to St Augustine on the 1. It is a scenic local road, so not as fast as the freeway, but a lot more interesting to drive along. This is a road that literally has one of each shop at regular intervals along the whole length of the road. Only a small amount of shopping today, as we think we now have everything we need. Our fingers are crossed that everything we have will fit into luggage we have. We have booked into the Historic Inn for three nights so we can do a little bit of Florida touristic bits. All the shopping has been offloaded so we can start the process of packing up the extra bags. Just in case we have a little bit ... read more

Unfortunately, we have both had a very bad night’s sleep. There has been constant shouting very near to our door nearly all night. We are not only suffering from the effects of the transatlantic fight, but also now a bad night’s sleep. We packed up and left the hotel by about 11.00am and started the 250 mile journey to Kissimmee. With Norwegian Air, we each got only one 20kg bag to stow and one 10kg bag for hand luggage. To try to maximise the clothes we can bring with us, we have brought only enough toiletries to get us through to today. Part of our shopping over the next week will be our ongoing toiletries, the toiletries for the three weeks when we are on the cruise and also a pair of water shoes each which ... read more