Thursday, July 2, 2009

Here we are Port Everglades, we are supposed to take our one bag and leave everything else on the ship for about a month (our stuff will be cruising the Caribbean). Report to the medical center by 8:00 a.m.. Linda and Dan will be disembarking at their regular time. We will not see them again until we return to Salt Lake. Their flight leaves the p.m.. The Broward county Sheriff's were very nice and understanding, they just had to follow the protocol for these kind of things. By this time is about 11:00 a.m. After they came then the coroner was to pick up Ryan's body. The Cruise lady from Princess came and escorted us off of the ship. We got to avoid any crowds or the hustle and bustle. We were told a room had been reserved for us by Princess near the airport so that as soon as we could leave there was a shuttle that would take us to the airport. We had hoped that everything would move quickly and we would be going home tomorrow. Lyman had not brought the charger for the cell phone, as he thought we would not be needing it, because we were originally only going to be in Ft. Lauderdale for a few hours. We made a few calls from the hotel and used the cell phone as little as possible to keep the charge. Lyman called Linda and Dan to see if they had seen a Verizon phone store anywhere in the area, they were out looking for the Hard Rock Cafe. We had looked in the phone book, but wasn't sure of the address. Linda was trying to call back on the hotel phone, but Lyman didn't tell me she would be calling back. I was talking to Mindy, recapping all of the details that we had gone through. Linda kept trying to call and couldn't get through. She had found a store and had bought a charger. Soon there is a knock at the door, I thought it was someone from the hotel bringing up the luggage. Surprise it was Linda and Dan (who I didn't think we would see until returning to Salt Lake). They had been driving by and Linda noticed the hotel from the freeway, and said to Dan is that an H on that building? They found our hotel and brought the charger. We try to plug it in and it doesn't start charging. What to do? They have a short time before they have to leave. The Verizon store is not to far from the hotel. We quickly run back over and take the phone to be sure that the charger works. Luck has it we had a bad charger. Got a new one, they let me run into Quizno's and grab Lyman and I lunch. We returned to the hotel and they needed to be off. (Wow sometimes miracles do happen). It looked like we would not be leaving until last Wednesday and now more into Thursday. The coroner's office said to pray that there were no homicides that night, so that Ryan would be their priority. At this point Lyman decided we should rent a car and not stay in and stare at the 4 walls. The travel agency was able to help us with this task. We took the airport shuttle to the airport to pick up the rental car. Then we decided that we should at least look around Ft. Lauderdale (we had never been here before), so we drove past the port to see the Coral Princess just getting ready to leave. We took some pictures as it was leaving. Decided to eat at Bubba Gumps for dinner. Things were progessing slowly, we called the funeral home in Ft. Lauderdale to see if they could help us speed things up. We just wanted to bring Ryan...HOME!

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