Well, we're back home. Got back home at midnight last night. Our second to last day, our laptop crashed. In general, that wouldn't be a big deal, as it was old. But I had copied all my pictures from this trip onto the laptop and wiped my camera cards! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> So, other than the few pictures we uploaded here (smaller versions anyway), I have no pictures from the trip until the final day and a half.. We will try to see if we can resurrect the hard drive or not, but I'm not at all certain, since there's nothing else on there that's worth saving, so it's not worth putting a lot of money into.

AND...Miami was a freaking ZOO last night.. Our flight left SXM about 40 minutes late. Kind of weird, they held a TOTALLY full plane for 40 minutes, something about getting a medical clearance for someone to fly. We had no problem getting right to a gate and there is now a tram which took us from the gate to immigration, which was a very short walk. That's when things fell apart. The electronic kiosks weren't working right, as probably at least 1/3 of people were getting an "x" through their picture. Eric again was a lucky one and got the "x". Probably 15 minutes in the "x" line, and we waited maybe 20 minutes after that for luggage and then there was CUSTOMS. OMG!! We have never seen customs like that before. I honestly don't know how long we waited in the customs line but it was forever. It was 1 hour and 45 minutes from when our plane landed until we were through immigration and customs. Lots of people were missing flights. We were happy to 'only' have to drive 3 1/2 hours from there. The 'mobile app' thing was in place there, but I never actually saw anyone using it..


Carol Hill