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Yesterday morning, two days after the U.S. Navy dropped crates of Spam onto the disabled Carnival Splendor, I drove to Fort Lauderdale beach to watch the arrival of Allure of the Seas.

When I arrived, it sat out in the ocean, seemingly motionless. In front of the Point of the Americas condos, more than a hundred people were gathered; some had climbed the jetty where a few of them had set up tripods. The channel was busy with pleasure craft, police boats, tug boats, and one lone kayaker bobbing back and forth on the waves.

Helicopters buzzed overhead, and a small plane trailed a message: "Fort Lauderdale (Heart) Allure of the Seas. Somebody obviously didn't read my blog. A formation of pelicans flew low, focused on fish.

After the departure of the Discovery, around 8:45, the blob on the horizon came into focus. About a hundred yards offshore it let off a blast of its foghorn, and the tugs - looking like chihuahuas at the feet of an elephant - shot up plumes of water.

Slowly, it filled the channel, its multi-story windows reflecting the Point of the Americas condo. Balcony against balcony. The people on the beach cheered and waved, while passengers and crew - lining the prow and leaning on railings - waved in return.

As the ship made its way into Port Everglades its stern was revealed, with its great gash of an opening into the atrium. It was such an odd sight at the back of a ship, eliciting something of the strange feeling you have walking through a stadium tunnel and finding the outdoors contained indoors. The tall opening looked to be bordered by rock climbing walls, though no one was climbing.

Slowly, the people on the beach drifted away, back to their offices, hotels, homes. At mine I showed Hania the pictures I'd taken.

"That's a lot of Spam," she said.

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