Getting to Miami cruise port from Fort Lauderdale

 Today is a day for transportation enthusiasts, which only means that Oscar is kept happy through the day.  We get on the hotel shuttle to go back to the airport, take a bus to the train terminal, take a train to Miami, take a subway to a different part of Miami, take a monorail to the closet stop to the port to take an Uber to the port with another family that we run into.  When you add the fact that we are getting on a boat and have just come off an airplane with a 

 
taxi, we've hit about everything except a trolley, which Oscar pointed out along with a  helicopter.  I don’t count a helicopter since you can’t just jump on one to go somewhere.  Let’s face it, if you’re on a helicopter, you’ve either booked a cool aerial tour of something, are in the military or are being life-flighted somewhere, only one of which sounds appealing.  We make it to the port to wait for the Schillims who have been driving down from Michigan for the last 2 days.  I was thinking they got the better end of the deal 

 when we got in at 1am last night to a horrible hotel, but feel better when they are stuck in traffic and sweating where the terminal is and where to park….maybe it’s a push.  We then stand in line for two hours to get through Norwegian’s antiquated and ridiculously inefficient check in procedure.  I’m not sure how one line can refuse to learn some tips from all the others or what is exactly going on with their check in, but it’s the worst part of this 

 cruise line.   We finally get on the boat to find out that we can’t sign Oscar up for kid’s club until tomorrow when he is officially 3, but I missed lunch because they have closed down for the safety drill, and we sit through that with a toddler who can’t be still and then finally get to go back and get food.  I promptly slip and fall on a wet spot in the café and hurt both of my knees pretty good.  I’m thinking that I 

 should have gone to the medical center on the very first day of the cruise, but can at least walk, so I’m going to keep doing that.  We get to the cabin where Oscar is very excited about the top bunk and climbs up and down the ladder putting his toys, his blanket, his back pack up there until coming down one time, he forgets a stair, slips and falls backward hitting his spine on a cabinet corner so that he has a nice bruise and scrape that runs down his 

 back.  I’m hoping that this is getting all of our problems on this cruise out at one time, but of course, John will get sick later in the cruise, because nothing has happened to him yet on this first day….probably because we go to bed so early to make up for the late night after the plane ride.