Sunday, April 22, 2012
at home

Yesterday we had a light  breakfast and headed to the Hollywood Theatre where we were grouped by time of our plane.  We were pink 4 so we had to be there at 8:45 of course anyone who knows me knows I like to be early so we went down around 8:30.  Betty and Kris came in and we were chatting and then came Becky.  She was pink 3.  We all chatted for a few minutes and then Becky's group was called.  Of course more hugs and tears and then we were called.  There were about 15 of us in each group. The head conciergie (Melani is how I think it is spelled) and way she walked out with us  As we got out of the ship Josef was there and hugged us and wished us a safe flight!   They had all the luggage sorted in different rooms and we went to room 4 make sense.  There was all our luggage together they had a porter and he loaded up all the bags.  We were then escorted to a limo and our luggage was loaded into a van behind us.  We got to LAX in record time well not quite as fast as that Nov. trip back in 2010.  We were greeted  by a Crystal Rep our luggage was loaded onto a flat bed and we were checked in paid for the extra luggage, through security and in the  airport club in less than 20 minutes.  We had almost 3 hours.  It went so smoothly it was amazing.  From when we left the ship till we got to the US Air club it was less than 1 1/2 hours!  Bill decided to go get a car magazine and I stayed put.  He came back excited he had just run into Rick he was waiting to board his plane for home!

Plane was on time, luggage all 8 of them were out fairly quickly and where is the limo driver.  Seems he walked away.  Okay we find him there was suppose to  be a limo and a van for luggage  but they sent the van like they did on the outgoing that is fine.  We are in our house by 3:30pm
One of the less stress travel days.

As I sit here looking at all this luggage that has to be unpacked I realize what a great gift I was given to be able to travel these past 3 months on a luxury Crystal ship.  We are truly blessed.  We have seen places that were on my bucket list, we have made friends that will last a lifetime and so many memories.

Just wanted to end with we sailed for the whole trip a total of 24,360 Nautical miles and 28,043 land miles.  Damn I wish I was getting miles for this!!!!!!!!
So until the next great adventure, thank you for your comments and stay well.  As the captain said  "Don't cry because it's over-- Smile because it was!!!!!!!!!