Home From the Sea

We are back. 7 days at sea.
Saturday we left home headed to Mobile, AL. Our plan to spend the night, get up early, drive to New Orleans and beat the Super Bowl Rush.
Sunday morning we arrive at the Port of New Orleans. No problem with Super Bowl traffic or street closings as the dire e-mails warning from Carnival warned us about. Then we arrived at the parking garage where we had been assured was dedicated to cruisers. We drove level after level, no parking space and we had already paid our $112 for 7 days. Finally after going back down several levels we did find parking. We were told that some came minutes after us and were turned away.
We unloaded our luggage in the garage and it was thrown onto a growing pile to be loaded on the ship and delivered to stateroom. We then proceeded through all the hoops we had to jump to get aboard the ship ourselves.
Tired and more than ready to get to our rooms, we find the rooms are not ready. However our lunch is.