We have safely arrived in Florida.
Let me tell you about a noteworthy event while departing from our airport yesterday. We were in line to clear customs. There are always two lines - the Global/Nexus line (the short one where we were not) and the general line which was a long circuitous line, the kind of line, that weaves back and forth eight or ten times. We were making good headway, despite there being only four agents to handle the crowd. After about 20 minutes US passport holders were invited to exit the line and take a more direct route to the front. That shortened our line a fraction.
All of a sudden, the traffic director removed the rope from a stanchion and pointed at me and said, "you may go to the accessibility line". I was dumbfounded and hesitated thinking, why me? I am not in a wheelchair or even limping since I had my knee replacement surgery! But she repeated, "You two can go to accessibility" and gestured to the short line! Well you don't need to tell me twice (though clearly she did!), so J and I walked over to the short, accessibility line. We were now second in line. J and I were asking ourselves, I wonder why we were selected? And then it dawned on me, I was wearing a face mask which I choose to do for preventative health reasons in crowded places. I was the only person in that crowded line that was wearing a face mask. I suspect the staffer thought of me as somebody who was immunocompromised , and therefore we got sent to the front of the line! Out of all those people, I did not see one other person wearing a mask. As a side note, J did wear his mask on the plane - he just needed to hear one or two nasty coughs nearby, and out came his N95 mask!
So now we are comfortably settled into our Embassy Suites Hotel by Hilton on 17th Street. This was about a 12 minute taxi ride from the airport and just 10 minutes away from the cruise port. We will board the ship tomorrow morning so we have one day to enjoy this lovely hotel!
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