Passenger's carnival cruise ship victorious began to gradually returned to normal process, early Friday, check in hotel shower, hot meals and good night sleep or boarding the bus to other cities five years later numb skysea disable weak ship engine room fire.
With about 4200 people at the cruise Thursday night in mobile, for passengers roar cheering ocean Odyssey is over, they say is in toilet, food shortages and pong mark.
"Alabama sweet home!" Read a homemade signs beside 14 layer ship as much to celebrate in line several levels of torture on the deck of the ship rail passengers stick. Ship's horn loud boom out several times four aircraft tug the disabled ship to shore and PM CST. Some people gave a thumbs up sign, and scintillation lit the night from a camera and a mobile phone.
Less than four hours later, and finally a passenger boat.
Some people, like 56, Barbara DE bo Houston knight, have interest in boarding about 100 car assembly passengers carrying quasi in New Orleans and one of the Texas. Her husband Seth from Houston to drive, they checked the downtown a mobile hotel.
"I hope to have a hot shower and the daggum Whataburger," knight said, who is her bag in her clothes in bath robe from her husband's pickup truck unship. She said, she is afraid of in the ship food, disease, and in the ship.
Later, the bus arrival passengers is the old man or too tired, walking in the darkness before dawn, in the Hilton Hotel in New Orleans journalists and medical personnel in the field and wheelchair out.
Many people are tired, do not want to speak. Have a long line, check to the room. Some emotions, because what they describe as a bad conditions of the ship.
"It's terrible, so terrible said:" maria el, she, and years of age, and ingres meal, Texas, tears burst into tears, her eyes, she talked about realized smoking in her lower other room on Sunday, hot day, follow the stench. She is a "girl trip" friend.
She says the group drag mattress, upper deck to summer. When she put her luggage into the hotel, a flashlight in her neck, she management a smile, giggle when asked to show her red "fat fat bag" - distributed cruise collection night soil.
This is her journey home is just one part of it. El, she, hundreds of people, will be in later in the day before you go home by plane in the hotel to enjoy a short reprieve.
"I just can't wait to go home," she said.
Time is not long, the ship to port mobile flow down ramp, pull carry-on luggage in the wheelchair and other some of the passengers began to pull. A man give thumbs up.
The ambulance took the door, CheYuan, blinking lights.
Carnival has said it will take up to five hours of 3000 passengers were all closed. Spent almost four.
"Now, all the guests can get out carnival victory" carnival chirps.
For 24 years old of the Brittany ferguson's Texas, don't know how long, the passengers had to bear their ship was the worst part.
"I just feel really great," said ferguson, who is in a white robe to give her the ship through the cold night see land and buildings. "The most terrible is just don't know when we will be back.
When the ship open up, some ship shout, "hello, move!" Some dance to celebrate on the balcony. "Happy V," read a homemade signs, valentine's day is coming, more shocking, "ship at sea, is the sewage.
Dozens of relatives at the top of the parking deck of the terminal waving light ship with elaborate. These relevant screams, whistles and take pictures.
Hundreds of see a arrived in Alabama mobile, the country's only port pier, from the docks, triumph dock.
A taxi waiting, and ten on interstate driver stopped to watch cruise passengers from exodus.
Some are in the car shouted, "let me get off, let me off!"
Navigation more than 30 miles of channel, wharf, at least four tug, under the guidance of spent six hard time. Nearly 900 feet long, it is the largest cruise ship dock in mobile.
In the text and flitter, cell phone, sailing on the sea, all the passengers on board description of the miserable situation.
The bus leave terminal more than a few hours. Has been reserved up to 100 passengers can be in 7 hours away, in Galveston, Texas, Houston city or two hours a trip to New Orleans.
Galveston was the mother of star-crossed lovers ship, in the engine room fire on Sunday about 150 miles lost power Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. This is the end of the cruise, nothing like what a brochure trace above.
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