Carnival Legend - Travel

I envy folks who live close to the ports. For us we must endure the time and cost of the flights to Florida. It's not the closest airport for us, but Minneapolis/St. Paul is almost always the cheapest. So...we load up the car and drive the 3 ½ hours to get there. Zach, Matt and Marji all live in “the Cities” so at least they don’t have far to go. After checking airport parking costs I decided it would be easier and just about as cheap to spend the night in a hotel that has a park and fly package. 

After traveling through pouring rain we arrived at our destination...a Hampton Inn. A rainbow greeted us…surely this must be a good sign at the start of our vacation!

The evening was spent at the Mall of America and then some time in the hotel pool before bed. 

Bob watching the ferris wheel at the Mall of America.

Zach snorkeling in the hot tub. Little boys never seem to grow up.

A quick trip on the Hampton Inn shuttle the next morning and we are waiting at MSP for our flights.

Unfortunately Delta has switched our flight to a much smaller plane and is trying to bump 20 of the passengers. :eek: Zach argues that we should all give up our seats to get the $400 vouchers but I refuse. No way am I going to spend my first day of vacation sitting in an airport HOPING that we get out that day and HOPING that we make it to the ship on time…no thanks.

Marji passes the time by “fish tailing” Erica's hair. Not sure how she did this…but it was cool!

After carefully choosing our seats together online months ago we are all scattered throughout the plane when we are issued new boarding passes. 😠