Here in Orlando, a few days before cruise.

Hi,

This was our 2nd day in Orlando. We arrived at the airport yesterday ( Wednesday, August 26th). Walking out of the MCO terminal we were greeted by RAIN, lots of RAIN! Our taxi guy safely & slowly maneuvered through flooded streets and very LOUD crackling thunder and lightning.

Surprisingly, once headed towards the Hyatt Grand Cypress our journey was quite calm. We made it here and are enjoying this wonderful resort!!

This morning we woke up to clear skies and hot weather. After llounging by the pool and then taking one of the little Buggy cars around the resort. We stopped for lunch. It was after lunch the BIG rain, THUNDER & Lightening began! We stayed at the lunch place for about 1 1/2 hours. Then headed back to the same building as our room.

Of course it turned to sun later in the afternoon The pools re-opened and it was back to "normal"

We sail Sunday to the Western Caribbean on RCCL. Hoping things will have gone well and we can board the ship and go to our scheduled Ports.

Stay safe,

. Bobbi

Hope you have a safe trip, and hopefully the weather cooperates as much as possible.

Walking out of the MCO terminal we were greeted by RAIN, lots of RAIN! Our taxi guy safely & slowly maneuvered through flooded streets and very LOUD crackling thunder and lightning. It was after lunch the BIG rain, THUNDER & Lightening began! We stayed at the lunch place for about 1 1/2 hours. Then headed back to the same building as our room. We sail Sunday to the Western Caribbean on RCCL. Hoping things will have gone well and we can board the ship and go to our scheduled Ports.

That's very typical for this time of year in that part of Florida. We used to live very close to your hotel...

We're also sailing on Sunday and crossing our fingers we can board. At this point, I don't particularly care all that much about WHICH ports as long as we go somewhere. Lol! :D

Thank you Firefighter, we hope so too! We're from SoCal and have been used to very little rain. So, being here in this rain paradise has been quite the change. On a side note : This afternoon after snacks and a couple smoothies the waitress just brought over 2 big glasses of water. We didn't request any. It just felt wasteful for her to dump it out, but we assumed that's what she did since we pushed them aside, and never took off the top of the straw cover.

😀. Bobbi

Hi Monorail,

Yeah, I understand going to any port. Still ..... We hope it all works out that we keep the original ports. Since, we didn't get travel insurance though...:(. Let's hit the seas anyway, and maybe tender at Gilligans Island! :D

Bobbi

Welcome to Florida. The weather you experienced is pretty typical of summers down here,

Hi Monorail,

Yeah, I understand going to any port. Still ..... We hope it all works out that we keep the original ports. Since, we didn't get travel insurance though...:(. Let's hit the seas anyway, and maybe tender at Gilligans Island! :D

Bobbi

Haha! We're in the same boat as far as the insurance (and probably on the same ship...). We're local, so I guess we don't feel like we "need" it. We might rethink that thought after this. Gilligans's island - love it!!! :cool:

Enjoy your vacation!

I'm still working in Finland, flying to Florida tomorrow. See you Sunday on Freedom.

Enjoy your cruise! We'll be boarding FOS on 9/6. :)

Welcome to Florida. The weather you experienced is pretty typical of summers down here,

Yep!

It *is* normal. :)