Thursday, January 24, 2013

Fort Lauderdale...Here We Come!


We arrived into Fort Lauderdale Airport around 1pm.  We picked up our luggage and looked around for our Princess rep.  After waiting 10 minutes, one arrived and escorted us outside to a group waiting on the curb outside the airport.  Our transportation arrived and we were loaded onto a Cabana bus for a 15 minute trip to the hotel. 

Upon arrival at the Embassy Suites, we received our Princess letter with instructions for embarkation on Saturday.  We also received our tickets for free breakfast.  Our room was ready and we were too happy to drop off all our luggage and heavy backpacks.  We quickly changed into our cruise clothes (shorts, t-shirts, and flip-flops). 

We took our normal walk behind the hotel to get to the shopping center.  Here we had access to a Publix grocery store, a Total Wine shop, several restaurants, and a natural health store.  We had lunch at Lauderdale Grill.  I had the Parmesan and almond crusted salmon and hubby had the grilled Ahi Tuna with a lemon grass sauce. 

After lunch we headed over to our favorite Publix store to pick up some toiletries we didn’t want to carry in our luggage (suntan lotion, contact lens solution, etc). Once we got our necessities, we wandered over to a really cool natural health store.  There we came across Olive Leaf.  The owner of the shop highly recommended this product to help get rid of our annoying coughs.  Hubby took a sample of the liquid form and told me to get pill form. 

I dropped Hubby off at the hotel so I could go and visit a favorite shop of mine…Essential Boutique in the shopping center next door.  They were having a sale on everything in their shop including some Brighton jewelry pieces.  A Brighton sale is unheard of!  I found a bracelet and necklace that went with the pieces I already had and I managed to get them for 50% off.  

As dinner time approached, hubby and I decided to have a light meal.  We headed over to the shopping center next to the Embassy Suites and went to Carlos and Pepes for chips and salsa.  Afterwards, we decided to hit the sack early as we were exhausted from all the traveling we did earlier in the day.  

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