Sunday, January 26 - Day 8

Sunday morning we woke up early and had one last room service breakfast. We squeezed the last few items into our luggage and waited for our disembarkation time.  A final scan of our ship card and the cruise was over. We took a shuttle to the airport to pick up our rental car.  We ended up with a Mazda 6 so it felt familiar. We couldn't check into the hotel until 3. We didn't really have a plan so Jason just started driving. We drove all over town and even drove to Miami for fun. I'd never been there before. We headed back to Fort Lauderdale and found a park on the internet. Unfortunately it wasn't too exciting as it was right near the Everglades. Cool to see but not much to do. We headed to a shopping center instead. We found a neat restaurant for lunch called Lime Fresh Mexican Grill which is like a lot of Mexican chains but was very very good. Jason had a tortilla soup and I had tacos with one of their 4 homemade Guacs. Delicious!

We continued to wander around the shops when Anikka got a voicemail that our flights for the next day were cancelled. They left a second message that we were rebooked on 3 flights home and would get back to MKE about 4 hrs later than originally scheduled.  We started to get a little stressed out and decided it was time to head to the hotel. We checked in and found our room and Anikka immediately started to scour the internet for better flights. After waiting for a return call from the airline she was able to persuade the agent into booking us on different flights that left earlier. After the weight was off our shoulders we took to the beach for some photos and a walk. For dinner we went to another Lime Fresh Mexican Grill. My mouth is watering just thinking about it! 

Then we headed back to the hotel to go to bed. With our new early flights it was a short night!