In a New York minute...

Hi all, sorry about the delay in us posting here. We arrived by plane to New York, but unfortunately our luggage did not. (Along with all of our computer/camera cords!) Delta was very helpful, though, and worked with us to get the information on our first few ports of call so that they could get the luggage to us on the ship.
We had quite a drive from the JFK airport through the west side of Manhattan to our pier. When we were getting ready to start the boarding process I started to get a bit worried about the fact that I was without my passport, so we found someone to ask about the situation. The gal we spoke to got the head of shore operations to come out and work with us. At first she was pretty sure that she just couldn’t let us on the ship, and that there was nothing she could do about it! It goes without saying that we were pretty upset, and she escorted us through security to a waiting room while she went to research what could be done.
Thanks to her and Michele (THANK YOU!!!) it was worked out that I could get by with my copy for the first couple of days, and have the passport mailed to the port agent in our third stop, St. John’s, Newfoundland. Now we’re just praying that Fed-Ex gets the package there before the gangway goes up at 5:00, but the shore operations gal said that Fed-Ex said it should be no problem. Phew! We got lucky.