We got up quite early so we could have time for one last free meal before we disembarked. So at 7am, we headed up to the breakfast buffet. I loaded up on bacon, because I rarely get enough at home, and I was sort of hoping to sate my interest in it for a while – -when I overloaded at Olive Garden at age 10, it was years<\/i> before I could eat the stuff again.<\/p>\n
I did eat too much of it, but I’m not repulsed by it now, so apparently it wasn’t too<\/b> much.<\/p>\n
After we ate, we went back down to the cabin to wait for the express people to be called. Eventually they were, and we hauled our bags up the flight of stairs to try and join the line on the 5th floor. The line was not yet moving when we got there, and the whole corridor was filled up, making it impossible for us to get to the actual ‘back’ of the line. So we stood there, behind some other people in the same predicament, and waited. Some people came up behind us then, and the woman started bitching at us that we weren’t moving — apparently dissatisfied that we weren’t interested in shoving our way into the already full corridor.<\/p>\n
We finally yelled at her to go around if she was so damn impatient to get going, and she moved away. Then the line started to go, and we merged in, and we ended up ahead of her anyway. Ha. I was sort of hoping that she’d get pulled over by customs and searched, but it doesn’t seem like that happened.<\/p>\n
It was rainy and pretty cold in Boston, so instead of trying to navigate the T, we decided we’d just take a cab back out to E’s place. We joined the taxi line and soon had stuffed ourselves into one with all of our luggage.<\/p>\n
We got back to E’s at 9:15, and thus the cruise was officially over.<\/p>\n
I called mom on the cell phone to let her know we were coming. As I dialed, I had the brief thought that she might still be asleep, but figured it was pretty late for her to be in bed.<\/p>\n
The conversation went something like this:
\nMom: Hello?
\nMe: Hello?
\nMom: Hello hello hello hello hello hello hello
\nMe: .oO(WTF?)
\nMe: Are you drunk?<\/p>\n
But she was not drunk. She just thought I was Clara. Anyhow, we warned her we were coming, she was startled at our earliness, and we left E’s place by 9:30. On the way there we got our first good look at the flooding that was occuring all over the region, and had to slow to a crawl several times so everyone could drive through giant puddles and wet areas.<\/p>\n
But we made it to mom’s easily, and after I upgraded her Firefox installation, we and her and J1 all went out to lunch at Chili’s for mother’s day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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