This morning, Diane and I took a quick walk around Bayfront Park in Miami and the nearby Bayside shopping center.
Then we checked out of the JW Marriott Marquis Miami, caught a Lyft to Port Everglades, and embarked on the Celebrity Xcel for a short Caribbean sailing with about a dozen old friends. There are also more than 2500 passengers we haven’t met yet, as well as more than a thousand crew members, most of whom we’ll never see – but we’ve already enjoyed meeting a few, such as Sebastian, the Bar Steward in the Retreat Lounge.
It’s a brand new ship (I think this is its third official sailing); they’ve made changes from the earlier ships in the Edge class, and I’m looking forward to seeing what they’ve done.