Disney Cruise - Last Post

Of course, it all had to come to an end.  It was a little cloudy when we came back into port at L.A.

The debarkation was really organized.  We had to leave our luggage outside our room by 10pm the night before, so we used our backpacks for all our "getting ready" stuff in the morning.  At turndown service, the room steward left us some colored luggage tags.  All the rooms were divided into maybe 6 or 8 different groups, and each group had a different colored luggage tag.  Ours were red Mickey tags, others had blue Donald tags, etc.

 

For the last morning, they actually assign breakfast times.  We had the later breakfast time, so we didn't have to rush around getting ready.  Throughout the morning, there would be announcements like, "All passengers with blue Donald luggage tags have been cleared to leave the ship" so you'd know when to go get in line.

 

We had to wait in a line for a bit to go through customs, but even that wasn't too bad.  After customs, we walked through the terminal and saw big signs matching the luggage tags that showed us where we'd find our luggage.  We grabbed it up, got the shuttle to the hotel, got our car, and we were on our way home!

 

 Watching movies on Rob's Kindle

Not watching movies

 

Since we got back the Sunday before Thanksgiving, it was a nice gradual transition from vacation back to the real world.  We all had a couple of days to catch up on stuff and then a nice long weekend before we really had to be back in the swing of things!

 

This was SUCH a good vacation! We're tentatively planning another one for 2014 to the Caribbean; all the saving was definitely worth it.