Finally on the ship

Well, after a year and a half of planning and talking and thinking, semester at sea is finally here. And let me tell you, it was so rough getting here. 
So, right now it is about midnight, it is my first night on the ship. I have met my room mate. Her name is Lauren and so far we are getting along really well. It is nice to have something go right after everything going wrong trying to get here. Let me start from the beginning. We were supped to leave on Monday, January 10. But Dallas had SNOW! What Dallas never has snow. So my mom cancelled our first flight, which was good cause the air like ended up canceling it any way. So mom moved our flight for the 11th. Mind you this only gives us one day to get everything together if anything went wrong. Well, everything went wrong. We get on the first flight which was delayed, start to pull way from the gate then end up having to turn around because of "engine trouble." when. Get back to the gate, they ended up letting some one else on the plane. So I think it was some one important of famous or something and there was no engine trouble to begin with. So not our flight is 1 hour late, but that's all the time we have between this flight and our next flight. But luckily that flight was delayed an hour as well. So we got there in time. At this point we are ready for things to start going right. However, our second flight wasn't just delayed an hour. It was delayed 2 1/2 hours. One of those hours we spent on a bus crammed full of other people. When we finally did get on the plane, there was too much weight so they had to defuel. Now everyone is just frustrated. But it doesn't stop here. When we landed, they lost our luggage. So I'm thinking great, I'm not going to have clothes for three months! I was at the airport for so long trying to get a claim on my bag, but their Internet wasn't working so I couldn't even do that. I ended up giving the baggage number which they wrote down and finally got to the hotel around 10 pm. I was supposed to be there around 3 pm... 
Any way, my bags finally arrived at the hotel around midnight and after a good night sleep I was ready to get on the ship. Now I am here, about to go to bed, and can't wait for what is to come. my mom saw us leave the port and waved good bye. I have a good room mate. And tomorrow is full of orientations and getting to know our professors. Get ready for some interesting stories, this is going to be quite a semester!