Today, we sailed the Caribbean toward Fort Lauderdale, passing Cuba.

I’m sad to say tonight is the last night of our cruise… Now we must go back to reality. No more getting multiple course meals served three times a day, no more room stewards to make our beds and give us clean towels, no more stepping out to our huge balcony for the view of the ocean. 😦

We handed out thank-you cards to some of the wonderful crew and said our good-byes, then we packed. On our flight to San Diego, we ended up exceeding the weight limit by 7 lbs. and had to pay extra fee, so we made sure to pack all the heavy stuff in our carry-on luggage. Hope we don’t have to pay extra this time.

Tomorrow, because our flight doesn’t leave till 7 pm and we have quite a bit of time to kill, we signed up for the Everglades Airboat Ride, so I guess we have one last fun left before our vacation ends.

We really enjoyed our cruise on Holland America, and we hope to do another one soon. We’ll probably do a quick 7-day Alaska cruise from Seattle next.