Shadowmeboy's Escape to the Western Caribbean!

[shadowmeboy]

Rainy morning in Portland.

 

 

We are taking off to the East. So that is Interstate 205 crossing the Columbia into Washington.

 

 

 

 

 

Look a barge in the river!

 

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Columbia River Gorge

 

 

We went through the clouds and popped up above.

 

 

Mount Hood poking above the clouds.

 

 

 

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Look we are right there!

 

 

Central Oregon

 

 

Part of breakfast on the plane.

 

 

Part of the Rockies

 

 

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Aaaah Nuts!

 

 

 

Crossing the Mississippi.

 

 

A barge in the Mississippi.

 

 

[shadowmeboy]

Susan is up now, so we are going to go enjoy our Anniversary. I will try to post more later.

 

So long for now!

[L1211]

Happy anniversary and thank you for the puppy pics! I'd almost forgotten just how cute they were. Thanks to your review, I'm planning an Alaskan cruise for the family and that tour is on the must do list.

 

 

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[Mellylucy]

Thanks for posting. Enjoying so far and anxious for what's comming.

Happy Anniversary to you and Susan on my Birthday!

[LeesaB]

Yay! Loved your past reviews. Happy anniversary!

[js]

Loving your review and pictures!

Sailing Escape next week, Western. Can't wait to read more.

Happy Anniversary!

[tropical83]

I'll be following along! I'll be on the Escape soon!

Happy Anniversary!

[Sand and Seas]

Very interested to hear about your first cruise from the east coast. Love the pictures!

[shadowmeboy]

Happy anniversary and thank you for the puppy pics! I'd almost forgotten just how cute they were. Thanks to your review, I'm planning an Alaskan cruise for the family and that tour is on the must do list.

 

 

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Thank you. I wanted to give readers who didn't read the other review to understand the context of the reference. I will be glad to answer questions you have about Alaska as well!

[shadowmeboy]

Thanks for posting. Enjoying so far and anxious for what's comming.

Happy Anniversary to you and Susan on my Birthday!

 

Happy Birthday and thank you! I will work on it as fast as I can!

[shadowmeboy]

Yay! Loved your past reviews. Happy anniversary!

 

Thank you and I am glad you enjoyed them!

[shadowmeboy]

Loving your review and pictures!

Sailing Escape next week, Western. Can't wait to read more.

Happy Anniversary!

 

I will try to get as much done as I can for you before you go. Thank you.

[shadowmeboy]

I'll be following along! I'll be on the Escape soon!

Happy Anniversary!

 

Glad to have you along. Thank you!

[shadowmeboy]

Very interested to hear about your first cruise from the east coast. Love the pictures!

 

Glad you enjoy them. A long way to travel. 6 hrs from home to airport, 6 hrs on the airplane, and another 5 to Miami from Orlando. Then the reverse on they way home.

[shadowmeboy]

Lets post a few more post before bed.

 

 

Tuscaloosa, AL

 

 

 

 

It started to get turbulent as we flew over Florida.

 

 

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Orlando's Airport finally came into view.

 

 

We had to circle from the North to approach the airport from the South.

 

 

very bumpy approach, but great views.

 

 

 

 

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We finally landed and started taxiing to the gate. Alaska uses gate 111 at MCO.

 

 

My parents who were cruising with us picked us up at the airport. My sister lives in Tampa, so they came down early, and stayed with her and her husband. They lost the ticket to leave the cell phone lot, so we ended up waiting outside of baggage claim almost 15 minutes. They finally got to us, we piled in and started the drive to Miami.

 

 

I missed getting pictures of lunch. Boy was Chick-fil-a good! We don't have one within 3 1/2 hours of our house, so its a treat when we travel. After lunch, we got back on the road again.

 

 

As we got closer to Miami, the sky opened up.

 

 

It finally stopped raining, as we arrived at the hotel. We stayed at the Best Western Premier Miami Airport. We checked in and headed up to the room.

 

 

A King Suite, we got upgraded due to my status with Best Western.

 

[CrabbyPatti]

Enjoyed your Alaska review, this looks to be just as good! We have plans to go to the Caribbean in 2018, just trying to sort out details!

[shadowmeboy]

A few more room pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We left our bags and hailed an Uber to go get Dinner. Susan wanted to go to Hard Rock, so to Hard Rock we went. It was hard to get good pictures due to construction. As we got close, our Uber driver almost hit a cop, so he got pulled over. We got out and walked the rest of the way, which was challenging for my dad Ken. He is still recovering from double knee replacements, which meant it was a long slow walk.

 

You can see the Uber pulled over next to my Mom Deanna's head.

 

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We finally all got to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was very hot and humid, even at 10 pm. Mom and Dad pictured below.

 

 

Susan's happy!

 

 

Mom and Dad shared the rib plate.

 

 

Susan got the Mac & Cheese with Chicken.

 

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I got the Legendary Burger.

 

 

Cool guitar of Jimi Hendrix

 

 

 

Camera fogged up.

 

 

Lets try that again.

 

 

We caught another Uber and started back to the hotel.

 

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American Airlines Arena

 

 

 

Marlins Park

 

 

Arriving at the hotel, I got some lobby pictures I failed to get earlier.