December 24th - Ft. Lauderdale

Thanks to our new daughter-in-law Christine we were dropped off at the Yosemite International Airport early Christmas Eve morning.  I just hope she was able to go back home and get some sleep.  The best thing about doing online check-in is that you do not have to wait in the long line to get your boarding passes which saved us from a much longer security line because it grew much longer just after we got there.  We had just enough time to use the facilities before boarding our first flight from Fresno to Denver.  We did get a little exercise once we landed as our next flight was at the complete other end of the concourse.  We decided we had just enough time to go to Quiznos and get some sandwiches to eat on the plane and sure enough they started boarding the plane soon after we got back.  The nice thing about today is we did not spend much time in any airport and arrived in much warmer weather in Fort Lauderdale with our luggage. We only had a little break down in communication when the GPS wouldn't connect fast enough.

We were very happy with our rooms at the Hyatt Summerfield Suites that I booked off of Hotwire.com.  Amanda is lucky right now because she has her own room for a few days before she has to share a cabin with her parents.

The rooms have a full kitchen & living room,

but one of our favorite things is the huge shower.  

We got settled in and then went to find some place for dinner and we finally lucked out this year and got to eat at TGI Fridays instead of Denny's.  Since we didn't have much sleep last night (I had 1 1/2 hrs. & Amanda had a 1/2 hr) we were ready for bed.