1/12/19...Our ship arrived in Miami early in the morning. We went down for breakfast, then went and got our luggage, and went to the Amber Palace for Early Flights to get off the ship. Caught our flight and everything went smoothly on our trip home.

Our ship as it came into Miami 

At the Miami Airport waiting to take off at 10:25 a.m.

It was clear and beautiful out.  We sat by the an exit, so we had to tell two people that we would assist the flight attendants if there was an emergency.  We couldn't sit there if we weren't willing to help.

Bill and I on our flight to Charlotte

Charlotte's Airport was beautiful and huge.  I loved the rocking chairs like at Cracker Barrell

We saw a Chick-fil-A and a Cin-a-Bun. Of course we picked the Chick-fill-A to eat at.  It was delicious.

We sat across the aisle from each other on our way to Detroit.

Got up at 4 am.  Gayla texted me a goodbye message at around 4:30.  Looked out our balcony door and saw we were in Miami getting ready to dock soon. It was dark out and the city was beautiful!  We went to the Lido on the 9th floor and ate breakfast at 5:30.  Went to our room and got all of our luggage and went down to Amber Palace for Early flight departures.  We saw our friends from India when they passed by and talked to us.  They were going on a short excursion of Miami.  Sashoon came back and shook our hands and said he hoped we had a safe trip.  We sat for a while until they called us out.  It was 7:30 a.m. when we left and our flight was at 10:20 out is Miami.  We were in the first group leaving the ship, showed our passports and went outside and got a taxi.  We had a lady taxi driver and she did a great job getting us to the airport and letting us know we check in quickly outside.  We did that and got through the short prechecked line.  I got right through, but Bill had to do the X-ray thing because of his knee replacements.  It wasn’t too long though.  We had an hour and a half wait before we could board, so we had muffins, a coffee and a cappuccino. Time passed pretty quickly.  We had a nice clear flight that was very smooth.  Got to Charlotte NC at 1:30. We had a two hour wait, so we ate lunch at a Chick Fil A.  Was that ever good.  We were walking to our gate and saw a people mover so got on it.  Because we were looking at it, we missed our turn.  We realized we were in C and needed to be in E.  It was a huge airport and very nice with lots of restaurants, Starbucks, and shops.  We back tracked and found our turn and got to the right gate.  Only had to wait a half hour to board.  Got on our plane and took off at 2:46 p.m.  Bill and I were across the aisle from each other.  There were only two seats on each side instead of three.  It was a much louder and rougher ride.  The lady I sat with was from Saginaw.  She went to St. Peter Lutheran Church.  The lady dad sat with was a Christian too.  After we landed and got our Luggage, and then took the hotel shuttle to pick up our car.  We headed home,and I talked to the girls on the way.  Yay.!  So happy to be able to talk to them again!!! We  got home at 7 p.m. Vikki, Peyton and Isaac came over!  We sure were happy to see them.