PARENTS DON'T MAKE IT BACK TO BOAT IN TIME

A tardy couple were left pleading at a Bahamas pier as they watched their ship sail off with their kids on board. The Norwegian Breakaway sailed away at 5:30 p.m. April 21, just before the unidentified woman and her husband — who had left the ship to look for her — ran back. Norwegian Cruise Line said the woman had not returned by the “widely communicated scheduled all aboard time of 5:30 p.m.” The parents had at least two kids on the ship — a boy about 9 years old and a girl about 12. The father was on the boat and the mother had not come back yet, so a ship worker told the dad to go find her. They didn’t make it back it time. The ship was on it’s way back from the Bahamas to New York City, where the family was reunited on April 24. The company said in a statement: “The ship went beyond normal protocol and waited alongside an additional half an hour for the guest.” The husband was allowed to disembark with the family’s travel documents to wait for his wife — while the kids stayed with their uncle and his family on board for the rest of the trip. The company offered travel and lodging assistance to the couple.
* Looks like they… missed the boat. Oh, wait. They actually DID miss the boat.
* The kids must have been going, “Faster! FASTER!! They’re catching up!!!”
* Nothing like a fun-filled, stress-free cruise.
* Too bad about the uncle, or else the kids would have had a terrific time.
* So the parents were stranded in the Bahamas? Give me a second to feel sorry for them.
* Oh, and the kids were being taken care of by a relative? This just keeps getting better.
* What we may have here is the best cruise by any parents in history.
* The only tough part for the parents was pretending they were upset.