Matt and I returned from our trip a couple days ago and I thought I had better write what we saw and did before I start forgetting the great places we visited. Each stop had it's own characteristic. We enjoyed so much just having the time to be together, relax and rest. As you read our days you'll probably say we were pretty boring...but that was just fine with us.
DAY 1: We left on Saturday, April 25th. The days leading up to our leaving were so busy and hectic as we got ourselves, the house and all the kids ready for us to be gone. In all my hurrying I pocked my left eye and scratched it pretty badly. Yes, I'm a dork and for some reason accident prone now that I have had eye surgery. What's up with that? It makes no sense. We left for Miami, FL on a 6am flight and by the time we got to Miami I knew I needed to see an eye doctor. We found and eye hospital (yes...believe it or now they have one in Miami) and we went right over at about 5pm. They may be one on the best in the country but they were HORRIBLY managed and it took 3 hours before I was able to see a doctor. After 5 minutes of cleaning up my eye of the loose and rough edges of the scratch on my eye, he send us home. He said that it would be a rough 1 or 2 days of pain as the Epithelial layer of the eye healed. We got back to the hotel and I asked Matt for a blessing.
I have learned that faith is very interesting. We can pray and pray for a loved one or ourselves and the Lord will do something contrary to our desires. I have also learned that He will grant our desires at other times. Why does He choose one over the another? I have yet to figure that out except that it is His will and that we still must have faith in His decisions and help in our life. I had been praying almost hourly all day that the Lord would take away the pain that I was experiencing and after the Blessing that pain began to lesson. In the morning I felt no pain. No matter how I would have felt in the morning, my appreciation and love for my Savior has once again been strengthened.
DAY 2: We were picked up at the hotel in Miami by the tour bus and taken to the docks where the ship was waiting. We were on the Carnival Valor ship. Wow...it was huge. We went through lots of lines before we were allowed on but that gave us time to meet some people while we waiting. You could just feel the excitement in the air as we all waited and anticipated starting our vacations. We set sail at 4pm. It was windy and the ocean choppy but we did not care. We were on our way.
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